Verse 15

and might free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

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  • Rom 8:15 : 15 You did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, 'Abba, Father.'
  • 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 For God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
  • 1 Cor 15:50-57 : 50 Now I say this, brothers and sisters: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Behold, I tell you a mystery: we will not all sleep, but we will all be changed, 52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will be fulfilled: 'Death is swallowed up in victory.' 55 Where, O death, is your sting? Where, O grave, is your victory? 56 The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Ps 55:4 : 4 From the voice of the enemy, and from the oppression of the wicked—for they bring down trouble on me and in their anger they hate me.
  • Ps 56:13 : 13 I am bound by my vows to you, O God; I will present thank offerings to you.
  • Job 18:11 : 11 Terrors frighten him on every side and chase him at his heels.
  • Job 33:21-28 : 21 Their flesh wastes away so that it can no longer be seen, and their bones, once hidden, now stick out. 22 Their soul draws near to the pit, and their life to the messengers of death. 23 But if there is a messenger for them, a mediator, one among a thousand, to declare to them what is right, 24 and He is gracious to them, saying, 'Deliver them from going down to the pit; I have found a ransom,' 25 then their flesh is restored to be fresher than in youth, and they return to the days of their youthful vigor. 26 They pray to God, and He accepts them; they see His face with joy, and He restores His righteousness to them. 27 They sing before others and say, 'I have sinned and perverted what was right, but it was not repaid to me.' 28 He redeemed my soul from going down to the pit, and my life will see the light.
  • 2 Cor 1:10 : 10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us again. On Him we have set our hope that He will continue to deliver us,
  • Rom 8:21 : 21 that the creation itself will also be liberated from the bondage to decay into the glorious freedom of God's children.
  • Luke 1:74-75 : 74 that we, being rescued from the hand of our enemies, would serve Him without fear, 75 in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.
  • Ps 33:19 : 19 To deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive during famine.
  • Job 18:14 : 14 He is uprooted from the security of his tent and marched off to the king of terrors.
  • Job 24:17 : 17 For to them, the morning is like deep darkness; they are familiar with the terrors of the shadow of death.
  • Ps 73:19 : 19 How suddenly they are destroyed, completely swept away by terrors!
  • Ps 89:48 : 48 Remember how fleeting my life is; for what futility have you created all humanity!
  • Gal 4:21 : 21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?