Hebrews 2:15

and might set at liberty all those who through fear of death had been subject to lifelong slavery.

Weymouth NT (1912)

In The King James Version

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

In Context

14Since then the children referred to are all alike sharers in perishable human nature, He Himself also, in the same way, took on Him a share of it, in order that through death He might render powerless him who had authority over death, that is, the Devil,

16For assuredly it is not to angels that He is continually reaching a helping hand, but it is to the descendants of Abraham.

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Cross References

Luke 1:74To grant us to be rescued from the power of our foes And so render worship to Him free from fear,

Romans 8:21Yet there was always the hope that at last the Creation itself would also be set free from the thraldom of decay so as to enjoy the liberty that will attend 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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