689 verses about Freedom

I know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.

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

Purge out the old yeast, that you may be a new lump, even as you are unleavened. For indeed Christ, our Passover, has been sacrificed in our place.

“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.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

Yet if the unbeliever departs, let there be separation. The brother or the sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us in peace.

Let each man stay in that calling in which he was called.

Were you called being a bondservant? Don’t let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

Are you bound to a wife? Don’t seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don’t seek a wife.

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

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.

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

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven’t I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren’t you my work in the Lord?

Have we no right to eat and to drink?

If others partake of this right over you, don’t we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right, but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the Good News of Christ.

But I have used none of these things, and I don’t write these things that it may be done so in my case; for I would rather die, than that anyone should make my boasting void.

What then is my reward? That, when I preach the Good News, I may present the Good News of Christ without charge, so as not to abuse my authority in the Good News.

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

Don’t you know that those who run in a race all run, but one receives the prize? Run like that, that you may win.

Now I would not have you ignorant, brothers, that our fathers were all under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;

and were all baptized into Moses in the cloud and in the sea;

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

Whatever is sold in the butcher shop, eat, asking no question for the sake of conscience,

But if one of those who don’t believe invites you to a meal, and you are inclined to go, eat whatever is set before you, asking no questions for the sake of conscience.

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

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

and not as Moses, who put a veil on his face, that the children of Israel wouldn’t look steadfastly on the end of that which was passing away.

But whenever one turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

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

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.

You are not restricted by us, but you are restricted by your own affections.

As the truth of Christ is in me, no one will stop me from this boasting in the regions of Achaia.

For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

But not even Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised.

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;

to whom we gave no place in the way of subjection, not for an hour, that the truth of the Good News might continue with you.

But when Peter came to Antioch, I resisted him to his face, because he stood condemned.

But when I saw that they didn’t walk uprightly according to the truth of the Good News, I said to Peter before them all, “If you, being a Jew, live as the Gentiles do, and not as the Jews do, why do you compel the Gentiles to live as the Jews do?

But if, while we sought to be justified in Christ, we ourselves also were found sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? Certainly not!

For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.

I have been crucified with Christ, and it is no longer I that live, but Christ lives in me. That life which I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself up for me.

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us. For it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree,” Deuteronomy 21:23

But the Scriptures imprisoned all things under sin, that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

But I say that so long as the heir is a child, he is no different from a bondservant, though he is lord of all;

but is under guardians and stewards until the day appointed by the father.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.

So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.

However, the son by the servant was born according to the flesh, but the son by the free woman was born through promise.

These things contain an allegory, for these are two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai, bearing children to bondage, which is Hagar.

For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

However what does the Scripture say? “Throw out the servant and her son, for the son of the servant will not inherit with the son of the free woman.” Genesis 21:10

So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.

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

Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.

For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision amounts to anything, nor uncircumcision, but faith working through love.

But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.

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.

But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

As many as desire to make a good impression in the flesh compel you to be circumcised; just so they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

But far be it from me to boast, except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

From now on, let no one cause me any trouble, for I bear the marks of the Lord Jesus branded on my body.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

so that it became evident to the whole palace guard, and to all the rest, that my bonds are in Christ;

and that most of the brothers in the Lord, being confident through my bonds, are more abundantly bold to speak the word of God without fear.

who delivered us out of the power of darkness, and translated us into the Kingdom of the Son of his love;

in whom we have our redemption, the forgiveness of our sins;

wiping out the handwriting in ordinances which was against us; and he has taken it out of the way, nailing it to the cross;

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,

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, freeman; but Christ is all, and in all.

praying together for us also, that God may open to us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;

in which I suffer hardship to the point of chains as a criminal. But God’s word isn’t chained.

and they may recover themselves out of the devil’s snare, having been taken captive by him to his will.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

Therefore though I have all boldness in Christ to command you that which is appropriate,

I beg you for my child, whom I have become the father of in my chains, Onesimus,

whom I desired to keep with me, that on your behalf he might serve me in my chains for the Good News.

But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

For perhaps he was therefore separated from you for a while, that you would have him forever,

no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, a beloved brother, especially to me, but how much rather to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord.

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

By faith, Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter,

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

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.

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

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,