8 Bible Verses about Bondage, Spiritual

But throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body.

"In truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "every one who sins is a slave to sin.

For I see that you have fallen into the 'bitterness of envy' and the 'fetters of sin.'"

Surely you know that, when you offer yourselves as servants, to obey any one, you are the servants of the person whom you obey, whether the service be that of Sin which leads to Death, or that of Duty which leads to Righteousness.

But throughout my body I see a different law, one which is in conflict with the law accepted by my reason, and which endeavors to make me a prisoner to that law of Sin which exists throughout my body.

"In truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "every one who sins is a slave to sin.

For I see that you have fallen into the 'bitterness of envy' and the 'fetters of sin.'"

Surely you know that, when you offer yourselves as servants, to obey any one, you are the servants of the person whom you obey, whether the service be that of Sin which leads to Death, or that of Duty which leads to Righteousness.

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to corrupt habits; for a man is the slave of anything to which he gives way.

We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am earthly-sold into slavery to Sin.

and they may yet come to a sober mind, and escape from the snares of the Devil, when captured by the Lord's Servant to do the will of God.

He should also be well spoken of by outsiders, that he may not incur censure and so fall into the snares of the Devil.

Set free from the control of Sin, you became servants to Righteousness.

But now that you have been set free from the control of Sin, and have become servants to God, the fruit that you reap is an ever-increasing holiness, and the end Immortal Life.

And you find out the Truth, and the Truth will set you free."

For through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life- giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of Sin and Death.

'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to bring Good News to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to captives and restoration of sight to the blind, To set the oppressed at liberty,

And Jesus began: "This very day this passage has been fulfilled in your hearing."

Therefore, since human nature is the common heritage of 'the Children,' Jesus also shared it, in order that by death he might render powerless him whose power lies in death--that is, the Devil-- and so might deliver all those who, from fear of death, had all their lives been living in slavery.