Take My yoke upon you, and learn of Me; because I am meek and lowly in heart; and ye shall find rest for your souls; for My yoke is easy, and My burden light."

and ye will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

Jesus answered them, "Verily, verily, I say to you, every one who commits sin is a slave of sin.

because, having known God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor did they give thanks; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

for he that died has been justified from sin.

But thanks be to God that, though ye were slaves of sin, ye did, however, obey from the heart that form of teaching unto which ye were delivered; and, having been made free from sin, ye were made slaves of righteousness.

For we know that the law is spiritual, but I am carnal, sold under sin. For what I accomplish, I know not; for not what I wish, this do I practice; but what I hate, this I do. read more. But, if what I wish not, this I do, I consent to the law that it is good. And now no longer do I accomplish it, but the sin which dwells in me. For I know that there dwells not in me, that is, in my flesh, any good; for to wish is present with me: but to do that which is good a not. For the good that I wish, I do not; but the evil which I wish not, this I practice. But, if what I wish not, this I do, it is no more I that perform it, but the sin that is dwelling in me. Consequently, I find the law, that, when I wish to do good, evil is present. or I delight in the law of God after the inward man; but I see a different law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! Accordingly, therefore, I myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but, with the flesh, the law of sin.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and death.

For ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, "Abba, Father."

For ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again unto fear; but ye received a spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, "Abba, Father." The Spirit Himself testifieth with our spirit, that we are children of God;

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

but, after having known God, or rather having been known by God, how are ye turning back again to the weak and beggarly elements, to which ye desire to be in bondage again?

and my trial in my flesh ye despised not, nor spurned; but ye received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.

Which things are an allegory; for these women are two covenants; one, indeed, from mount Sinai, bringing forth into servitude, which is Hagar (for the word Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia), and corresponds to the present Jerusalem; for she is in bondage with her children.

For freedom did Christ make us free; stand fast, therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye will not fulfill the desire of the flesh. For the flesh covets against the spirit, and the spirit against the flesh; for these are contrary one to the other, that ye may not do the things which ye wish. read more. But, if ye are being led by the Spirit, ye are not under law.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, kindness, goodness, faith, meekness, continence; against such there is no law. read more. And those who are of Christ Jesus crucified the flesh with the passions and desires. If we live by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us also walk.

For by grace ye have been saved through faith: and this, not of yourselves, it is the gift of God:

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

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

For ye have not come to a mount that is touched and burning with fire, and to blackness, and darkness, and tempest, and the sound of a trumpet, and the voice of words; which voice those who heard entreated that no word more should be added to them; read more. for they could not bear that which was being commanded: "And, if a beast touch the mountain, it shall be stoned"; and so terrible was the appearance, Moses said, "I am exceedingly frightened and in fear!"

But he who looks carefully into a perfect law??hat of liberty??nd remains by it, becoming not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work??his man shall be happy in his doing.

as free, and not holding your freedom as a cloak for wickedness, but as servants of God.

And we have beheld, and testify, that the Father hath sent the Son, as Savior of the world. Whosoever confesses that Jesus is the Son of God, God abideth in Him, and he in God. read more. And we have known and believed the love which God hath in us. God is love, and he that abides in love abides in God, and God abideth in him.

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon Me; because He anointed Me to publish good tidings to the poor; He hath sent Me to proclaim release to captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send away the crushed in freedom.

If, therefore, the Son shall make you free, ye will be free indeed.

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

But, if we died with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with Him; knowing that Christ, having been raised from the dead, dieth no more; death no more has dominion over Him. read more. For the death that He died, He died to Sin once for all; but the life that He liveth He liveth to God. Even so reckon ye also yourselves dead, indeed, to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus. Let not sin, therefore, reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey its desires; neither present 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 ye are not under law, but under grace. What, then? May we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? It could not be! Know ye not that to whom ye present yourselves as slaves for obedience, his slaves ye are whom ye obey, whether of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness? But thanks be to God that, though ye were slaves of sin, ye did, however, obey from the heart that form of teaching unto which ye were delivered; and, having been made free from sin, ye were made slaves of righteousness. I speak after human fashion because of the weakness of your flesh; for, as ye presented your members subservient to uncleanness, and to iniquity unto iniquity; so now present your members subservient to righteousness unto holiness. For, when ye were slaves of sin, ye were free as to righteousness. What fruit, therefore, had ye then in the things of which ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. But now, having been made free from sin, and having been made slaves to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life;

Wretched man that I am! who will deliver me out of the body of this death? Thanks be to God, through Jesus Christ our Lord! Accordingly, therefore, I myself with the mind, indeed, serve the law of God; but, with the flesh, the law of sin.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and death. For, what was impossible under law, wherein it was weak through the flesh. God, sending His Own Son in likeness of sinful flesh, and, respecting sin, condemned sin in the flesh; read more. that the requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

For freedom did Christ make us free; stand fast, therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.