Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart; and you shall find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my bur den is light.

and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

Jesus answered them: Verily, verily I say to you, whoever works sin is the servant of sin.

because, when they knew God, they did not glorify him as God, nor were they thankful; but they became perverse in their reasonings, and their wicked heart was darkened;

for he that is dead is freed from sin.

But thanks be to God, that though you were the servants of sin, yet you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching, in which you have been instructed; and being made free from sin, you have be come the servants of righteousness.

For we know that the law is spiritual; but I am carnal, sold into bondage to sin. For what I do, I know not: for that which I wish to do, this I do not; but that which I hate, this I do. read more. If, then, I do that which I wish not to do, I give assent to the law, that it is good. Now, then, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good; for to will is present with me; but to perform that which is good, I find not. For the good that I wish to do, I do not; but the evil that I wish not to do, this I do. Now, if I do that which I wish not to do, it is no longer I that do it, but sin that dwells in me. I find, then, this law: That, when I wish to do good, evil is present with me. For, in the inward man, I delight in the law of God: but I perceive another law in my members, at war with the law of my mind, and making me a captive to the law of sin, which is in my members.

I thank God that I shall be delivered through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I my self, with the mind, serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin.

For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin, and of death.

For you have not again received the spirit of bondage, that you may fear; but you have received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.

For you have not again received the spirit of bondage, that you may fear; but you have received the spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father. The Spirit itself testifies with our spirit, that we are the children of God;

Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

now, however, after having known God, rather indeed having been known by God, how is it that you are turning back to the weak and beggarly rudiments, to which you desire again to be in bondage, as at first?

and my trial, which was in my flesh, you did not despise or loathe; but you received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

These things are allegorized: for these women are the two covenants; the one from the Mount Sinai that brings forth for bondage, which is Hagar. For Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in bondage with her children.

Stand firm, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and be not held fast again in the yoke of bondage.

I say this: Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh. For the desire of the flesh is against the Spirit, and the desire of the Spirit is against flesh; and these are opposed, the one to the other, so that you can not do what you would. read more. But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under law.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faithfulness, meekness, self-control. Against such there is no law. read more. Now those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

For by grace you have been saved through the faith; and this matter is not of yourselves; it is the gift of God:

darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

and might set free those who, through fear of death, were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

For you have not come to a mountain that may be touched, and that burns with fire, and to blackness and darkness and tempest, and to the sound of a trumpet, and to the utterance of words, the hearing of which utterance caused the people to entreat that the word might not be spoken to them again; read more. for they could not endure that which was commanded, And if even a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned: and so terrible was the sight, that even Moses said, I exceedingly fear and tremble.

But he that looks intently into the perfect law of liberty, and remains constant, being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, he shall be blessed in his deed.

as being free, and yet not using your freedom as a cloak for malice, but as servants of God.

And we have seen, and we do testify, that the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the. world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God. read more. And we have known and believed the love which God has for us. God is love; and he that dwells in love, dwells in God, and God in him.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the broken hearted; to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind; to set free the oppressed;

Therefore, if the Son make you free, you shall be free indeed.

I am the door: if any one enters through me, he shall be saved; and he shall go in and out, and find pasture.

Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him; because we know that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dies no more; death has dominion over him no longer; read more. for, as it regards his dying, he, once for all, died to sin; but as it regards his living, he lives to God. So also do you count yourselves as dead indeed to sin, but as living to God, in Christ Jesus our Lord. Therefore, let not sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey it; and present not your members to sin, as instruments of unrighteousness: but present yourselves to God, as alive from the dead; and your members to God, as instruments of righteousness. For sin shall not have dominion over you; for you are not under law, but under grace. What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It can not be. Know you not, that to whom you present yourselves as servants to obey, his servants you are whom you obey, whether of sin that leads to death, or of obedience that leads to righteousness? But thanks be to God, that though you were the servants of sin, yet you have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching, in which you have been instructed; and being made free from sin, you have be come the servants of righteousness. I speak of what is common among men, oil account of the weakness of your flesh: for as you have presented your members as servants to uncleanness, and to lawlessness, in order to lawlessness, so now present your members as servants to righteousness, in order to holiness. For when you were the servants of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness. What fruit, therefore, had you at that time, in those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. But now, since you have been made free from sin, and have become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, eternal life.

Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body that subjects me to death? I thank God that I shall be delivered through Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore, I my self, with the mind, serve the law of God, but with the flesh, the law of sin.

For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin, and of death. For what the law could not do, because it was weak through the flesh, God has done, who, sending his own son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and for a sin-offering, condemned sin in the flesh, read more. that the righteousness of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

Stand firm, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and be not held fast again in the yoke of bondage.