23 Bible Verses about Christian Liberty

{Give no offense} both to Jews and to Greeks and to the church of God,

But watch out lest somehow this right of yours becomes a cause for stumbling to the weak.

Now I am not speaking about your own conscience, but the [conscience] of the other [person]. For why [is] my freedom judged by another's conscience?

And you shall consecrate the fiftieth year, and you shall proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. It [is] a Jubilee; it shall be for you, and you shall return. You must return--everyone to his property and everyone to his clan. {You shall have the fiftieth year as a Jubilee}; you must not reap its aftergrowth, and you must not harvest its unpruned vines. Because it is a Jubilee, it shall be holy to you. You must eat its produce from the field. read more.
" 'In this Year of Jubilee {each of you shall return} to his property. And when you sell something to your fellow citizen or [you] buy from your neighbor's hand, you must not oppress {one another}. You must buy from your fellow citizen according to [the] number of years after the Jubilee; he must sell to you according to [the] number of years of yield. You must increase its price {according to a greater number of years}, but you must decrease its price {according to a lesser number of years}, because he is selling [its] yields to you. And you must not oppress {one another}, but you shall revere your God, because I [am] Yahweh, your God.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the female slave and one by the free woman. But the one by the female slave was born according to human descent, and the one by the free woman through the promise, which [things] are spoken allegorically, for these [women] are two covenants, one from Mount Sinai, bearing [children] for slavery, who is Hagar. read more.
Now Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is a slave with her children. But the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the female slave but of the free woman.

For you have not received a spirit of slavery [leading] to fear again, but you have received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, "Abba! Father!"

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord [is, there is] freedom.

So also we, when we were children, we were enslaved under the elemental spirits of the world.

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit [to them] as [if] living in the world?

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

So also we, when we were children, we were enslaved under the elemental spirits of the world. But when the fullness of time came, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, in order that he might redeem those under the law, in order that we might receive the adoption.

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not let your freedom [become] an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

[Live] as free [persons], and not using your freedom as a covering for evil, but as slaves of God.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

to whom not even for an hour did we yield in subjection, in order that the truth of the gospel might remain continually with you.

[The] Spirit of the Lord Yahweh [is] upon me, because Yahweh has anointed me, he has sent me to bring good news [to the] oppressed, to bind up {the brokenhearted}, to {proclaim} release to [the] captives and liberation to those who are bound,

to open [the] blind eyes, to bring [the] prisoner out from [the] dungeon, those who sit [in] darkness from [the] house of imprisonment.

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

For the one who has died has been freed from sin.

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

But now we have been released from the law, [because we] have died [to that] by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter [of the law].

But the one who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues [to do it], not being a forgetful hearer but a doer who acts, this one will be blessed {in what he does}.

Thus speak and thus act as those who are going to be judged by the law of liberty.

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

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.

[The] Spirit of the Lord Yahweh [is] upon me, because Yahweh has anointed me, he has sent me to bring good news [to the] oppressed, to bind up {the brokenhearted}, to {proclaim} release to [the] captives and liberation to those who are bound,

"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,

Now I am not speaking about your own conscience, but the [conscience] of the other [person]. For why [is] my freedom judged by another's conscience?

For [although I] am free from all [people], I have enslaved myself to all, in order that I may gain more.

For the one who is called in the Lord [while] a slave is the Lord's freedperson. Likewise the one who is called [while] free is a slave of Christ.

Ah, Yahweh, I [am] indeed your servant; I am your servant, the child of your maidservant. You have loosed my bonds. I will offer to you a sacrifice of thanksgiving, and proclaim the name of Yahweh.

who has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred [us] to the kingdom of the Son {he loves},

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law [by] becoming a curse for us, because it is written, "Cursed [is] everyone who hangs on a tree,"

For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not let your freedom [become] an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Now [this was] because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, in order that they might enslave us,

and could set free these who through fear of death were subject to slavery throughout all their lives.

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

And I will go about {freely}, for I have sought your precepts.

that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

So if the son sets you free, you will be truly free.

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

For certain men have slipped in stealthily, who were designated long ago for this condemnation, ungodly ones, who change the grace of our God into licentiousness and who deny our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.