23 Bible Verses about Christian Liberty

Do not give offense to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.

I do not mean yours but the other person's. For why is my freedom being judged by another's conscience?

So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan. That fiftieth year will be your jubilee; you must not sow the land, harvest its aftergrowth, or pick the grapes of its unpruned vines. Because that year is a jubilee, it will be holy to you -- you may eat its produce from the field. read more.
"'In this year of jubilee you must each return to your property. If you make a sale to your fellow citizen or buy from your fellow citizen, no one is to wrong his brother. You may buy it from your fellow citizen according to the number of years since the last jubilee; he may sell it to you according to the years of produce that are left. The more years there are, the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of produce. No one is to oppress his fellow citizen, but you must fear your God, because I am the Lord your God.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise. These things may be treated as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar. read more.
Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

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

For you did not receive the spirit of slavery leading again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba, Father."

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

So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

If you have died with Christ to the elemental spirits of the world, why do you submit to them as though you lived in the world?

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

So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world. But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.

Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God's slaves.

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

But we did not surrender to them even for a moment, in order that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,

to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.

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

(For someone who has died has been freed from sin.)

For the law of the life-giving Spirit 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 what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

But the one who peers into the perfect law of liberty and fixes his attention there, and does not become a forgetful listener but one who lives it out -- he will be blessed in what he does.

Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.

Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

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

The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,

I do not mean yours but the other person's. For why is my freedom being judged by another's conscience?

For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman. In the same way, the one who was called as a free person is Christ's slave.

Yes, Lord! I am indeed your servant; I am your lowest slave. You saved me from death. I will present a thank offering to you, and call on the name of the Lord.

He delivered us from the power 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 and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.

Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.

Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

I will be secure, for I seek your precepts.

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God's children.

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of decay into the glorious freedom of God's children.

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

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

For certain men have secretly slipped in among you -- men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe -- ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.