Quotes about Deliverance
Pray that I may be delivered from the unbelievers in Judea, and that my service in Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints there,
- Romans 15:31
He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,
- 2 Corinthians 1:10
because I know that through your prayers and the provision of the Spirit of Jesus Christ, my distress will turn out for my deliverance.
- Philippians 1:19
in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
- Colossians 1:14
And pray that we may be delivered from wicked and evil men; for not everyone holds to the faith.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:2
my persecutions, and the sufferings that came upon me in Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. What persecutions I endured! Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
- 2 Timothy 3:11
But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, so that through me the message would be fully proclaimed, and all the Gentiles would hear it. So I was delivered from the mouth of the lion.
- 2 Timothy 4:17
By faith the people passed through the Red Sea as on dry land; but when the Egyptians tried to follow, they were drowned.
- Hebrews 11:29
and if He rescued Lot, a righteous man distressed by the depraved conduct of the lawless
- 2 Peter 2:7
Although you are fully aware of this, I want to remind you that after Jesus had delivered His people out of the land of Egypt, He destroyed those who did not believe.
- Jude 1:5
The heaven that he won for us by his atoning death presupposes a hell from which he delivered us. The eternal life he imparted to us presupposes an eternal death from which he saved us.
- Herman Bavinck
Christ, the new Moses, liberates His people, the Church, the new Israel, from the spiritual slavery of sin and from the power of the world (symbolized by Egypt), which is under the dominion of Satan (symbolized by Pharaoh), through the sea (death) and the wilderness (Purgatory) to the promised land (Heaven).
- Peter Kreeft