"I, the LORD, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people and a light for the Gentiles, to open eyes that are blind, to free captives from prison and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness."
from prison
Psalm 66:11 You brought us into prison and laid burdens on our backs.
Isaiah 24:22 They will be herded together like prisoners bound in a dungeon; they will be shut up in prison and be punished after many days.
Isaiah 48:20 "Leave Babylon, flee from the Babylonians! Announce this with shouts of joy and proclaim it. Sent it out to the ends of the earth; say, "The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob."
Zechariah 9:11 As for you, because of the blood of my covenant with you, I will free your prisoners from the waterless pit.
Luke 4:19 "... to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor."
2 Timothy 2:26 ... and that they will come to their senses and escape from the trap of the devil, who has taken them captive to do his will.
Hebrews 2:14-15 Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death--that is, the devil--and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.
and to release from the dungeon those who sit in darkness
Psalm 107:10 Some sat in darkness and the deepest gloom, prisoners suffering in iron chains, ...
Psalm 107:14 He brought them out of darkness and the deepest gloom and broke away their chains.
Acts 26:18 "... 'to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'"
NOTES:
Read Acts 9
Scriptures taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version® NIV®, Copyright© 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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