The Psalms, where the LORD delivers, open the verses that readers of OpenBible linked to deliverance: nine from the Old Testament, four from the letters and three from the Gospels.
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Psalm 34:17, whose heading attributes it to David, says that the LORD hears the righteous and delivers them from all their troubles, and in 34:4 the psalmist says, “He delivered me from all my fears.” Psalm 107:6, with no heading, tells of wanderers in the desert whom the LORD delivered. In Psalm 50:15, a psalm of Asaph according to its heading, God tells His people, “Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you.” Psalm 91, with no heading, speaks of the shelter of the Most High.
In 2 Samuel 22:2 David sings, “The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer.” In Psalm 40:13 and 40:17, whose heading attributes it to David, the psalmist asks the LORD to deliver him and calls Him his deliverer, and in Jeremiah 1:7–8 the LORD tells Jeremiah that He is with him to deliver him.
In John 8:32 Jesus says, “The truth will set you free.” Paul writes in Galatians 5:1, “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free,” and in Romans 6:14–19 that sin shall not master his readers.
In Matthew 10:1 Jesus gives the twelve authority over unclean spirits and to heal every disease. James 5:16 tells its readers to confess their sins and pray for each other to be healed. 2 Peter 2:9 says that the Lord knows how to rescue the godly from trials and to hold the unrighteous for punishment on the day of judgment, and in John 15:7 Jesus tells His disciples that if they remain in Him and His words in them, whatever they ask will be done.