'Bondage' in the Bible

and [that He] might free all those who through [the haunting] fear of death were held in slavery throughout their lives.

For indeed we have had the good news [of salvation] preached to us, just as the Israelites also [when the good news of the promised land came to them]; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not united with faith [in God] by those who heard.