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Luke 1:74

That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,

KJV

ἀφόβως ἐκ χειρὸς ἐχθρῶν ῥυσθέντας λατρεύειν αὐτῷ

Greek NT

ut sine timore, de manu inimicorum nostrorum liberati, serviamus illi

Vulgate

To grant unto us that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies Should serve him without fear,

ASV

That being delivered from the hand of our enemies, we may serve him without fear:

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
λατρεύω
latreuo
verb · 21×
χείρ
cheir
noun · 175×
ἀφόβως
aphobos
adverb · 4×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐχθρός
echthros
adjective · 32×
ῥύομαι
ruomai
verb · 17×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor
SBLGNT: ἐχθρῶν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἐχθρῶν | RP: τῶν ἐχθρῶν ἡμῶν
  • ἐχθρῶνSBLGNT
  • ἐχθρῶνWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • τῶν ἐχθρῶν ἡμῶνRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Themes

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Does religion regard only our relation to God? Is religion a virtue? Is religion one virtue? Is religion a special virtue? Is religion a theological virtue? Should religion be preferred to the other moral virtues? Does religion have any external actions? Is religion the same as holiness? Article 1. Whether religion directs man to God alone? Objection 1. It would seem that relig…

Cross-references

  • 1John 4:18 — There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.
  • 1Pet 1:15 — But as he which hath called you is holy, so be ye holy in all manner of conversation;
  • 1Pet 2:24 — Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
  • 2Cor 5:15 — And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.
  • 2Kgs 17:39 — But the LORD your God ye shall fear; and he shall deliver you out of the hand of all your enemies.
  • 2Sam 7:1 — And it came to pass, when the king sat in his house, and the LORD had given him rest round about from all his enemies;
  • 2Tim 1:7 — For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
  • Dan 6:27 — He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.
  • Deut 11:1 — Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.
  • Eph 1:4 — According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
  • Ezek 34:25 — And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and will cause the evil beasts to cease out of the land: and they shall dwell safely in the wilderness, and sleep in the woods.
  • Ezek 39:28 — Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there
  • Heb 2:15 — And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
  • Heb 2:15 — And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
  • Heb 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • Heb 9:14 — How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
  • Isa 35:9 — No lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast shall go up thereon, it shall not be found there; but the redeemed shall walk there:
  • Isa 43:21 — This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.
  • Isa 54:13 — And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.
  • Isa 65:21 — And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.
  • Lev 25:10 — And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession,
  • Luke 1:71 — That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
  • Luke 1:71 — That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
  • Mic 5:6 — And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth
  • Phil 1:14 — And many of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds, are much more bold to speak the word without fear.
  • Ps 59:1 — Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against me.
  • Ps 107:2 — Let the redeemed of the LORD say so, whom he hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy;
  • Ps 119:32 — I will run the way of thy commandments, when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
  • Ps 119:134 — Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.
  • Rev 2:10 — Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer: behold, the devil shall cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days: be thou faithful unto death, and
  • Rom 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.
  • Zech 8:19 — Thus saith the LORD of hosts; The fast of the fourth month, and the fast of the fifth, and the fast of the seventh, and the fast of the tenth, shall be to the house of Judah joy and gladness, and chee
  • Zech 9:8 — And I will encamp about mine house because of the army, because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth: and no oppressor shall pass through them any more: for now have I seen with m
  • Zeph 3:15 — The LORD hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the king of Israel, even the LORD, is in the midst of thee: thou shalt not see evil any more.