and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by the fear of death.
Terrors frighten them on every side and chase them at their heels.
They are torn from the tent in which they trusted and are brought to the king of terrors.
For deep darkness is morning to all of them; for they are friends with the terrors of deep darkness.
to deliver their soul from death and to keep them alive in famine.
My heart is in anguish within me; the terrors of death have fallen upon me.
For you have delivered my soul from death and my feet from falling, so that I may walk before God in the light of life.
How they are destroyed in a moment, swept away utterly by terrors!
Who can live and never see death? Who can escape the power of Sheol? Selah
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!”
that the creation itself will be set free from its enslavement to decay and will obtain the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
He who rescued us from so deadly a peril will continue to rescue us; on him we have set our hope that he will rescue us again,
Tell me, you who desire to be subject to the law, will you not listen to the law?
for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.
For it is clear that he did not come to help angels but the descendants of Abraham.