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Jesus like His Brothers

Hebrews 2:15

In 9 translations

BSB
and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
KJV
And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
WEB
and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
ASV
and might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
LSV
and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,
YLT
and might deliver those, whoever, with fear of death, throughout all their life, were subjects of bondage,
DBY
and might set free all those who through fear of death through the whole of their life were subject to bondage.
DRC
And might deliver them, who through the fear of death were all their lifetime subject to servitude.
GNV
And that he might deliuer all them, which for feare of death were all their life time subiect to bondage.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Greek has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

SBLGNT
καὶ ἀπαλλάξῃ τούτους, ὅσοι φόβῳ θανάτου διὰ παντὸς τοῦ ζῆν ἔνοχοι ἦσαν δουλείας.
RP2018
καὶ ἀπαλλάξῃ τούτους, ὅσοι φόβῳ θανάτου διὰ παντὸς τοῦ ζῇν ἔνοχοι ἦσαν δουλείας.
TR-Boyd
καὶ ἀπαλλάξῃ τούτους, ὅσοι φόβῳ θανάτου διὰ παντὸς τοῦ ζῇν ἔνοχοι ἦσαν δουλείας.
SCR1894
και απαλλαξη τουτους οσοι φοβω θανατου δια παντος του ζην ενοχοι ησαν δουλειας

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Romans 8:15For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
  • 2 Timothy 1:7For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.
  • Luke 1:74–75deliverance from hostile hands, that we may serve Him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our lives.
  • Romans 8:21that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
  • Psalms 55:4My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me.
  • 2 Corinthians 1:10He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,
  • Psalms 89:48What man can live and never see death? Can he deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
  • 1 Corinthians 15:50–57Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed—…
  • Job 24:17For to them, deep darkness is their morning; surely they are friends with the terrors of darkness!
  • Psalms 56:13For You have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
  • Job 33:21–28His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude. He draws near to the Pit, and his life to the messengers of death. Yet if there is a messenger on his side, one mediator in a thousand, to tell a man…
  • Psalms 33:19to deliver them from death and keep them alive in famine.
  • Job 18:11Terrors frighten him on every side and harass his every step.
  • Psalms 73:19How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
  • Job 18:14He is torn from the shelter of his tent and is marched off to the king of terrors.
  • Galatians 4:21Tell me, you who want to be under the law, do you not understand what the law says?

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