21 Bible Verses about Religious Freedom

For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, 'Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'

In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty;

For the law having a shadow of the coming good things -- not the very image of the matters, every year, by the same sacrifices that they offer continually, is never able to make perfect those coming near,

one doth believe that he may eat all things -- and he who is weak doth eat herbs;

a servant -- wast thou called? be not anxious; but if also thou art able to become free -- use it rather;

but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

for sin over you shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under grace.

'At the end of seven years thou dost make a release,

All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;

if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

and conscience, I say, not of thyself, but of the other, for why is it that my liberty is judged by another's conscience?

And I walk habitually in a broad place, For Thy precepts I have sought.

and that because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,

and the chief captain answered, 'I, with a great sum, did obtain this citizenship;' but Paul said, 'But I have been even born so.'

for he who is in the Lord -- having been called a servant -- is the Lord's freedman: in like manner also he the freeman, having been called, is servant of Christ:

And now, having been freed from the sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit -- to sanctification, and the end life age-during;

And him who is weak in the faith receive ye -- not to determinations of reasonings;

One doth judge one day above another, and another doth judge every day alike; let each in his own mind be fully assured.

which are, indeed, having a matter of wisdom in will-worship, and humble-mindedness, and neglecting of body -- not in any honour, unto a satisfying of the flesh.