15And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
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For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, …
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 14-18)Here the apostle proceeds to assert the incarnation of Christ, as taking upon him not the nature of angels, but the seed of Abraham; and he shows the reason and design of his so doing. I. The incarnation of Christ is asserted (Heb. 2:16): Verily he took not upon him the nature of angels, but he took upon him the seed of Abraham . He took part of flesh and blood. Though as God he pre-existed from a…
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