Christian Liberty

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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

But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.

Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. — read the full passage →

All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in 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 an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

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

And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

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

And he that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatsoever is not of faith is sin.

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

And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

Now the Lord is that 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 them that are weak.

It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.

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

For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

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

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.

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

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, 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 →

Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives; — read the full passage →

So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.

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

And that because of false brethren unawares 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 be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.

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 mankind, — read the full passage →

But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these sayings, he departed from Galilee, and came into the coasts of Judea beyond Jordan; — read the full passage →

Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man.

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

And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile 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; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself 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 is raging: and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise.

The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. — read the full passage →

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

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

Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

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

Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?

There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. — read the full passage →

And the next day we touched at Sidon. And Julius courteously entreated Paul, and gave him liberty to go unto his friends to refresh himself.

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

And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come 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 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,

Whoredom and wine and new wine take away the heart.

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

Therefore thus saith the Lord; Ye have not hearkened unto me, in proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother, and every man to his neighbour: behold, I proclaim a liberty for you, saith the Lord, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

But ye turned and polluted my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom ye had set at liberty at their pleasure, to return, and brought them into subjection, to be unto you for servants and for handmaids.

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

O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth for ever. — read the full passage →

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

The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

Others mocking said, These men are full of new wine.

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

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

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

(For the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)

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

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