15 and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear(A) of death.

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15 The Spirit(A) you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again;(B) rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship.[a] And by him we cry, “Abba,[b] Father.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:15 The Greek word for adoption to sonship is a term referring to the full legal standing of an adopted male heir in Roman culture; also in verse 23.
  2. Romans 8:15 Aramaic for father

For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid,(A) but gives us power,(B) love and self-discipline.

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My heart is in anguish(A) within me;
    the terrors(B) of death have fallen on me.

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74 to rescue us from the hand of our enemies,
    and to enable us to serve him(A) without fear(B)
75     in holiness and righteousness(C) before him all our days.

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50 I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood(A) cannot inherit the kingdom of God,(B) nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.(C) 51 Listen, I tell you a mystery:(D) We will not all sleep,(E) but we will all be changed(F) 52 in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound,(G) the dead(H) will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For the perishable(I) must clothe itself with the imperishable,(J) and the mortal with immortality. 54 When the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality, then the saying that is written will come true: “Death has been swallowed up in victory.”[a](K)

55 “Where, O death, is your victory?
    Where, O death, is your sting?”[b](L)

56 The sting of death is sin,(M) and the power of sin is the law.(N) 57 But thanks be to God!(O) He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.(P)

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Corinthians 15:54 Isaiah 25:8
  2. 1 Corinthians 15:55 Hosea 13:14

21 that[a] the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay(A) and brought into the freedom and glory of the children of God.(B)

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  1. Romans 8:21 Or subjected it in hope. 21 For

10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril,(A) and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope(B) that he will continue to deliver us,

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48 Who can live and not see death,
    or who can escape the power of the grave?(A)

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13 For you have delivered me from death(A)
    and my feet from stumbling,
that I may walk before God
    in the light of life.(B)

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21 Their flesh wastes away to nothing,
    and their bones,(A) once hidden, now stick out.(B)
22 They draw near to the pit,(C)
    and their life to the messengers of death.[a](D)
23 Yet if there is an angel at their side,
    a messenger,(E) one out of a thousand,
    sent to tell them how to be upright,(F)
24 and he is gracious to that person and says to God,
    ‘Spare them from going down to the pit;(G)
    I have found a ransom for them(H)
25 let their flesh be renewed(I) like a child’s;
    let them be restored as in the days of their youth’(J)
26 then that person can pray to God and find favor with him,(K)
    they will see God’s face and shout for joy;(L)
    he will restore them to full well-being.(M)
27 And they will go to others and say,
    ‘I have sinned,(N) I have perverted what is right,(O)
    but I did not get what I deserved.(P)
28 God has delivered(Q) me from going down to the pit,(R)
    and I shall live to enjoy the light of life.’(S)

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  1. Job 33:22 Or to the place of the dead

19 to deliver them from death(A)
    and keep them alive in famine.(B)

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17 For all of them, midnight is their morning;
    they make friends with the terrors(A) of darkness.(B)

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19 How suddenly(A) are they destroyed,
    completely swept away(B) by terrors!

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14 He is torn from the security of his tent(A)
    and marched off to the king(B) of terrors.(C)

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Hagar and Sarah

21 Tell me, you who want to be under the law,(A) are you not aware of what the law says?

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