Hebrews 2:15

and so might deliver all those who, from fear of death, had all their lives been living in slavery.

Twentieth Century New Testament

In The King James Version

And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

In Context

14Therefore, since human nature is the common heritage of ‘the Children,’ Jesus also shared it, in order that by death he might render powerless him whose power lies in death — that is, the Devil —

16It was not, surely, to the help of the angels that Jesus came, but ‘to the help of the descendants of Abraham.’

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Cross References

Luke 1:74That we should be rescued from the hands of our enemies,

Romans 8:21yet not without the hope that some day Nature, also, will be set free from enslavement to decay, and will attain to the freedom which will mark the Glory of the Children of God.

Matthew Henry on Hebrews 2:15-18

Christ's Incarnation. ( a. d. 62.) 14 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. 16 For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. 17 Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be… Read the whole commentary →

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