and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.
For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
that we, being delivered from the hand of our enemies, might serve him without fear, in holiness and righteousness before him all our days.
He delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to corruption and obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 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 shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
What man can live and never see death? Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah
His flesh is so wasted away that it cannot be seen, and his bones that were not seen stick out. His soul draws near the pit, and his life to those who bring death. If there be for him an angel, a mediator, one of the thousand, to declare to man what is right for him, and he is merciful to him, and says, ‘Deliver him from going down into the pit; I have found a ransom; let his flesh become fresh with youth; let him return to the days of his youthful vigor’;
For you have delivered my soul from death, yes, my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of life.
that he may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive in famine.
For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
Terrors frighten him on every side, and chase him at his heels.
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
He is torn from the tent in which he trusted and is brought to the king of terrors.
Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?
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