Hebrews 2:15
and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
In Context
16for, doubtless, of messengers it doth not lay hold, but of seed of Abraham it layeth hold,
Cross References
Job 18:14Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.
Job 33:21His flesh is consumed from being seen, And high are his bones, they were not seen!
Psalms 55:4My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.
Psalms 73:19How have they become a desolation as in a moment, They have been ended — consumed from terrors.
Luke 1:74To give to us, without fear, Out of the hand of our enemies having been delivered,
Romans 8:21that also the creation itself shall be set free from the servitude of the corruption to the liberty of 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 →