8 Bible Verses about Bondage, Spiritual

but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members.

His iniquities shall ensnare him, the evildoer, and in the vanity of his sin he shall be caught.

Jesus replied to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

For I see you are in {a state of bitter envy} and {bound by unrighteousness}."

Do you not know that to whomever you present yourselves [as] slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whomever you obey, whether sin, [leading] to death, or obedience, [leading] to righteousness?

but I observe another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that exists in my members.

Jesus replied to them, "Truly, truly I say to you, that everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

For I see you are in {a state of bitter envy} and {bound by unrighteousness}."

Do you not know that to whomever you present yourselves [as] slaves for obedience, you are slaves to whomever you obey, whether sin, [leading] to death, or obedience, [leading] to righteousness?

promising them freedom [although they] themselves are slaves of depravity. For to whatever someone succumbs, by this he is also enslaved.

Then Ahab said to Elijah, "Have you found me, my enemy?" He said, "I have found you because you have sold yourself to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh.

They made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire, they practiced divination and read omens, and they sold themselves to do evil in the eyes of Yahweh to provoke him.

Thus says Yahweh: "Where [is] this divorce document of your mother's divorce, [with] which I dismissed her? or to whom of my creditors did I sell you? Look! you were sold because of your sin, and your mother was dismissed because of your transgressions.

For thus says Yahweh: "You were sold for nothing, and you shall be redeemed without money."

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am fleshly, {sold into slavery to sin}.

and they will come to their senses again [and escape] from the trap of the devil, being held captive by him to [do] his will.

But [he] must also have a good testimony from those outside, in order that he may not fall into disgrace and the trap of the devil.

and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

But now, having been set free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit [leading] to sanctification, and its end [is] eternal life.

and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

"The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because of which he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send out in freedom those who are oppressed,

And he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing."

But Yahweh has taken you and brought you out from the furnace of iron, from Egypt, to be a people of inheritance to him, {as it is this day}.

Therefore, since the children share in blood and flesh, he also in like manner shared in these [same things], in order that through death he could destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and could set free these who through fear of death were subject to slavery throughout all their lives.

And the Egyptians ruthlessly compelled the {Israelites} to work. And they made their lives bitter with hard work with mortar and with bricks and with all [sorts] of work in the field--with all their work in which they ruthlessly enslaved them.

"I [am] Yahweh; I have called you in righteousness, and I have grasped your hand and watched over you; and I have given you as a covenant of [the] people, as a light of [the] nations, to open [the] blind eyes, to bring [the] prisoner out from [the] dungeon, those who sit [in] darkness from [the] house of imprisonment.