18 Bible Verses about Religious Freedom

Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

Christ ransomed us from the curse of the Law by becoming accursed for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a gibbet),

with the freedom for which Christ set us free. Make a firm stand then, do not slip into any yoke of servitude.

(The Lord means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is open freedom.)

For as the Law has a mere shadow of the bliss that is to be, instead of representing the reality of that bliss, it never can perfect those who draw near with the same annual sacrifices that are perpetually offered.

While one man has enough confidence to eat any food, the man of weak faith only eats vegetables.

You were a slave when you were called? Never mind. Of course, if you do find it possible to get free, you had better avail yourself of the opportunity.

But see that the exercise of your right does not prove any stumbling-block to the weak.

Sin must have no hold over you, for you live under grace, not under law.

'All things are lawful'? Yes, but not all are good for us. 'All things are lawful'? Yes, but not all are edifying.

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

There were traitors of false brothers, who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus; they did aim at enslaving us again.

The commander replied, "I had to pay a large sum for this citizenship." "But I was born a citizen," said Paul.

But a slave who is called to be in the Lord is a freedman of the Lord. Just as a free man who is called is a slave of Christ

but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal.

Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of passing judgment on his scruples.

Then again, this man rates one day above another, while that man rates all days alike. Well, everyone must be convinced in his own mind;

they get the name of 'wisdom' with their self-imposed devotions, with their fasting, with their rigorous discipline of the body, but they are of no value, they simply pamper the flesh!