Hebrews 2:15 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁵And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Hebrews 2:15 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 8:15
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.
2 Timothy 1:7
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Luke 1:74-75
That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear, …
2 Corinthians 1:10
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us;
Psalms 55:4
My heart is sore pained within me: and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

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Commentary

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 al…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 15)

15. fear of death--even before they had experienced its actual power. all their lifetime--Such a life can hardly be called life. subject to bondage--literally, “subjects of bondage”; not merely liable to it, but enthralled in it (compare Ro 8:15; Ga 5:1). Contrast with this bondage, the glory of the “sons” (He 2:10). “Bondage” is defined by Aristotle, “The living not as one chooses”; “liberty,” “t…