Christian Liberty

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

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

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with 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 anything.

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions. — read the full passage →

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

Whether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. — read the full passage →

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

But he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn’t of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin. Now to him who is able to establish you according to my Good News and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery which has been kept secret through long ages, but now is revealed, and by the Scriptures of the prophets, according to the commandment of the eternal God, is made known for obedience of faith to all the nations; to the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever! Amen.

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

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

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

It is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.

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

Yes, I testify again to every man who receives 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 puffs up, but love builds up.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

One man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.

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

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

The Spirit of the Lord Yahweh is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who 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 the same way, wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; so that, even if any don’t obey the Word, they may be won by the behavior of their wives without a word; — read the full passage →

So speak, and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

Therefore leaving the teaching of the first principles of Christ, let us press on to perfection—not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works, of faith toward God, — read the full passage →

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in 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, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, — read the full passage →

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

When Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judea beyond the Jordan. — read the full passage →

That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

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

You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

as also in all of his letters, speaking in them of these things. In those, there are some things that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unsettled twist, as they also do to the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

but if I wait long, that you may know how men ought to behave themselves in God’s house, which is the assembly of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

As it is written, “There is no one righteous; no, not one. — read the full passage →

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

Wine is a mocker, and beer is a brawler. Whoever is led astray by them is not wise.

The heavens declare the glory of God. The expanse shows his handiwork. — read the full passage →

“The vine said to them, ‘Should I leave my new wine, which cheers God and man, and go to wave back and forth over the trees?’

Know that our brother Timothy has been freed, with whom, if he comes shortly, I will see you.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be haughty, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

Be no longer a drinker of water only, but use a little wine for your stomach’s sake and your frequent infirmities.

Conscience, I say, not your own, but the other’s conscience. For why is my liberty judged by another conscience?

There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. — read the full passage →

The next day, we touched at Sidon. Julius treated Paul kindly, and gave him permission to go to his friends and refresh himself.

Agrippa said to Festus, “This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

He ordered the centurion that Paul should be kept in custody, and should have some privileges, and not to forbid any of his friends to serve him or to visit him.

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

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Prostitution, wine, and new wine take away 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 says Yahweh: you have not listened to me, to proclaim liberty, every man to his brother, and every man to his neighbor: behold, I proclaim to you a liberty, says Yahweh, to the sword, to the pestilence, and to the famine; and I will make you to be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.

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

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

Give thanks to Yahweh, for he is good, for his loving kindness endures forever. — read the full passage →

wine that makes glad the heart of man, oil to make his face to shine, and bread that strengthens man’s heart.

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whomever she desires, only in the Lord.

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 anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man looking at his natural face in a mirror;

make my joy full, by being like-minded, 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 one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

The heavens, the earth, and all their vast array were finished. — read the full passage →