Christian Liberty

For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

All things are lawful for me; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful for me; but I will not be brought under the power of any.

But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.

But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples. — read the full passage →

All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he also brought into bondage.

Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of a feast day or a new moon or a sabbath day:

For they that are after the flesh mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit. — read the full passage →

And I shall walk at liberty; For I have sought thy precepts.

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

But he that doubteth is condemned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith; and whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.

It is good not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything whereby thy brother stumbleth.

For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:

Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols: We know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.

but they that wait for Jehovah shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; they shall walk, and not faint.

One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

that the creation itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he shall guide you into all the truth: for he shall not speak from himself; but what things soever he shall hear, these shall he speak: and he shall declare unto you the things that are to come.

If therefore the Son shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. — read the full passage →

In like manner, ye wives, bein subjection to your own husbands; that, even if any obey not the word, they may without the word be gained by the behavior of their wives; — read the full passage →

So speak ye, and so do, as men that are to be judged by a law of liberty.

Wherefore leaving the doctrine of the first principles of Christ, let us press on unto perfection; not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith toward God, — read the full passage →

and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

For though I was free from all men, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

And thus, sinning against the brethren, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, ye sin against Christ.

Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men, — read the full passage →

but as it is, I wrote unto you not to keep company, if any man that is named a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such a one no, not to eat.

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan; — read the full passage →

Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.

The word that came unto Jeremiah from Jehovah, after that the king Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people that were at Jerusalem, to proclaim liberty unto them;

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubilee unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.

as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

but if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how men ought to behave themselves in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

as it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one; — read the full passage →

and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler; And whosoever erreth thereby is not wise.

The heavens declare the glory of God; And the firmament showeth his handiwork. — read the full passage →

And the vine said unto them, Should I leave my new wine, which cheereth God and man, and go to wave to and fro over the trees?

Know ye that our brother Timothy hath been set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.

Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach’s sake and thine often infirmities.

conscience, I say, not thine own, but the other’s; for why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. — read the full passage →

And the next day we touched at Sidon: and Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him leave to go unto his friends and refresh himself.

And Agrippa said unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Cæsar.

And he gave order to the centurion that he should be kept in charge, and should have indulgence; and not to forbid any of his friends to minister unto him.

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the understanding.

But if he give of his inheritance a gift to one of his servants, it shall be his to the year of liberty; then it shall return to the prince; but as for his inheritance, it shall be for his sons.

Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Ye have not hearkened unto me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim unto you a liberty, saith Jehovah, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth.

but ye turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and ye brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

And ye were now turned, and had done that which is right in mine eyes, in proclaiming liberty every man to his neighbor; and ye had made a covenant before me in the house which is called by my name:

O give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever. — read the full passage →

And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, Andoil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengtheneth man’s heart.

A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

But others mocking said, They are filled with new wine.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. — read the full passage →

For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a mirror:

make full my joy, that ye be of the same mind, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind;

(for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth),

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth on him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

And the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. — read the full passage →