The word in Scripture

Deliverance in the Bible

The word deliverance appears 16 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Deliverance is rescue from danger, enemies, and death. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What deliverance means in the Bible

Deliverance is rescue from danger, enemies, and death.

Where the word deliverance appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word deliverance appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“And God sent me before you to preserve you a posterity in the earth, and to save your lives by a great deliverance.”Genesis 45:7

“And he was sore athirst, and called on the LORD, and said, Thou hast given this great deliverance into the hand of thy servant: and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised?”Judges 15:18

“Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore.”Psalms 18:50

“Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.”Psalms 32:7

“We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.”Isaiah 26:18

“But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.”Obadiah 1:17

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,”Luke 4:18

“Women received their dead raised to life again: and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection:”Hebrews 11:35