Freedom

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

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

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;

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.

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

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.

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

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.

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,

Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins: — read the full passage →

I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.

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 →

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 →

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; — read the full passage →

Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

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 sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, which temple ye are.

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

What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid.

Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.

God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.

But the scripture hath concluded all under sin, that the promise by faith of Jesus Christ might be given to them that believe.

Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the Lord. — read the full passage →

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints? — read the full passage →

And Jesus being full of the Holy Ghost returned from Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness, — read the full passage →

For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

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

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

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

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.

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; — read the full passage →

For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope, — read the full passage →

God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

And early in the morning he came again into the temple, and all the people came unto him; and he sat down, and taught them.

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

The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth.

I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.

O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.

Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; — read the full passage →

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

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? — read the full passage →

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:

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

And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound? — read the full passage →

And you, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled — read the full passage →

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.

For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant.

For he that is dead is freed from sin.

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:

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

Art thou called being a servant? care not for it: but if thou mayest be made free, use it rather.

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

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, — read the full passage →

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:

For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

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.

In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight:

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

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

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 →

But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

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

Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name. — read the full passage →

And for this cause he is the mediator of the new testament, that by means of death, for the redemption of the transgressions that were under the first testament, they which are called might receive the promise of eternal inheritance.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. — read the full passage →

This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? — read the full passage →

For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.

But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.

Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timotheus our brother, — read the full passage →

Now as touching things offered unto idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. — read the full passage →

I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world: — read the full passage →

And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law. — read the full passage →

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Ye that love the Lord, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. — read the full passage →

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; — read the full passage →

The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, to the strangers scattered throughout Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, — read the full passage →

Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? — read the full passage →

O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? — read the full passage →

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;