No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the authority to lay it down, and I have the authority to take it back again. This commandment I received from my Father."

And having passed by the first and second watch, they came to the iron gate leading to the city; which of its free will was opened to them: and having come out, they advanced one street; and quickly the messenger departed from him.

For if I do this work of my own free will, then I have a reward; but if it is not of my will [but by God’s choosing], I have been entrusted with a [sacred] stewardship.

I can testify that by their own free will they have given to the utmost of their ability, yes, even beyond their ability.

He welcomed my request and eagerly went to visit you by his own free will.

Because the ministry of this free-will offering is not only supplying the deficiencies of the saints, but also superabounding through much thanksgiving to God;

for you know that everyone, slave or free, will get his reward from the Lord for anything good he has done.

But I was willing to do nothing without your consent, that your goodness would not be as of necessity, but of free will.

It was of His own will that He gave us birth [as His children] by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits of His creatures [a prime example of what He created to be set apart to Himself—sanctified, made holy for His divine purposes].

I appeal therefore to those who are elders among you; I am their brother-elder and a witness to what the Christ suffered, and I am to share in the glory that is to be revealed??2 be shepherds of the flock of God that is among you, not as though it were forced upon you but of your own free will, and not from base love of gain but freely,

be shepherds of the flock of God that is among you, not as though you had to but of your own free will, not from the motive of personal profit but freely,

To those free from the law I became like one free from the law (though I am not free from God's law but under the law of Christ) to gain those free from the law.

know that it is not through obedience to Law that a man can be declared free from guilt, but only through faith in Jesus Christ. We have therefore believed in Christ Jesus, for the purpose of being declared free from guilt, through faith in Christ and not through obedience to Law. For through obedience to Law no human being shall be declared free from guilt.

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

Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged: do not give punishment to others, and you will not get punishment yourselves: make others free, and you will be made free:

See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven?

As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;

And he gives to all, small and great, the poor and those who have wealth, the free and those who are not free, a mark on their right hand or on their brows;

But, not as the offence so also is the free gift; for if by the offence of the one the many did die, much more did the grace of God, and the free gift in grace of the one man Jesus Christ, abound to the many;

Nor can the free gift be compared to what came through the man who sinned. For the sentence that followed one man's offense resulted in condemnation, but the free gift brought justification, even after many offenses.

For the slave who has been called to belong to the Lord is the Lord's free person. In the same way, the free person who has been called is the Messiah's slave.

But every year you make a request to me to let a prisoner go free at the Passover. Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?

I thought it necessary, therefore, to exhort the brothers to go to you before, and to make ready your free gift before announced, that it may be ready as a free gift and not as an exaction.

And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.

That all living things will be made free from the power of death and will have a part with the free children of God in glory.

I am free to do all things; but not all things are wise. I am free to do all things; but I will not let myself come under the power of any.

If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.

We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.

Cure the sick, raise the dead, make the lepers clean, drive out demons. You have received free of cost, give free of cost.

And make us free of our debts, as we have made those free who are in debt to us.

Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever is fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven.

Truly I say to you, Whatever things are fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven.

So, brothers, we are the children of no slave woman, but of free woman. For freedom did not Christ set us free;

Because of this Pilate kept on trying to set Him free, but the Jews shouted, "If you set Him free, you are no friend to the emperor. Anyone who claims to be a king is uttering treason against the emperor!"

to keep your commission free from stain, free from reproach, till the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ ??15 which will be brought about in due time by that blessed and only Sovereign, King of kings and Lord of lords,

and those whom He has pre-destined He also has called; and those whom He has called He has also declared free from guilt; and those whom He has declared free from guilt He has also crowned with glory.

The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.

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

They answered unto him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never yet been in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

I know that ye are Abraham's seed: yet ye seek to kill me, because my word hath not free course in you.

that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great."

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will never leave you or forsake you."

saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates."

But we kept hoping that He was the One who was coming to set Israel free. Moreover, besides all this, it is now the third day since these things occurred.

and most of the brothers in the Lord, made confident in the Lord through my imprisonment, are much emboldened to speak God's message with free and fearless confidence.

Am I not free to do what I will with my own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?

In it that new creation there is no "Greek and Jew," "circumcised and uncircumcised," "barbarian," "Scythian," "slave," "free man," but Christ is all, and in us all.

And that we may be made free from foolish and evil men; for not all have faith.

never free from the danger of being put to death like Jesus, so that in my body the life of Jesus also may be seen.

Keeping the secret of the faith in a heart free from sin.

For those who have done good work as Deacons get for themselves a good position and become free from fear in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

I give praise to God, whose servant I have been, with a heart free from sin, from the time of my fathers, because in my prayers at all times the thought of you is with me, night and day

A fighting man, when he is with the army, keeps himself free from the business of this life so that he may be pleasing to him who has taken him into his army.

And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.

For we have all??ews or Greeks, slaves or free men??een baptized in one spirit to form one body, and we have all been saturated with one Spirit.

And straight away his mouth was open and his tongue was free and he gave praise to God.

Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for he has come to his people and made them free,

That we, being made free from the fear of those who are against us, might give him worship,

It is so with the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in decay, it is raised free from decay.

in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the sound of the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised free from decay, and we shall be changed.

The God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of our forefathers, has glorified His Servant Jesus, whom you yourselves betrayed and disowned before Pilate, although he had decided to set Him free.

The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make well those who are broken-hearted; to say that the prisoners will be let go, and the blind will see, and to make the wounded free from their chains,

And it came about that on one of these days he was teaching; and some Pharisees and teachers of the law were seated there, who had come from every town of Galilee and Judaea and from Jerusalem; and the power of the Lord was with him, to make those who were ill free from their diseases.

Now is there no Jew, neither gentile, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither man nor woman: but ye are all one thing in Christ Jesus.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a free woman.

But Jerusalem, which is above, is free: which is the mother of us all.

Nevertheless, what saith the scripture? "Put away the bondwoman and her son. For the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman."

At that time, he made a number of people free from their diseases and their pains, and from evil spirits; and to others who were blind he gave back the use of their eyes.

When they were unable to make payment, he made the two of them free of their debts. Which of them, now, will have the greater love for him?

And certain women who had been made free from evil spirits and diseases, Mary named Magdalene, from whom seven evil spirits had gone out,

My punishments and pain; the things which came to me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; the cruel attacks made on me: and the Lord made me free from them all.

Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.

And let those who all their lives were in chains because of their fear of death, go free.

And they went away, journeying through all the towns, preaching the good news and making people free from diseases in all places.

May we have forgiveness for our sins, as we make free all those who are in debt to us. And let us not be put to the test.

how much more shall the blood of Christ, who through his eternal spirit offered himself free from blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works unto the service of an ever-living God!

And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

In all this the holy Spirit was seeking to show that there was no free access to the sanctuary while the outer tent was still standing.

And when Jesus saw her, he said to her, Woman, you are made free from your disease.

And is it not right for this daughter of Abraham, who has been in the power of Satan for eighteen years, to be made free on the Sabbath?

For while the Law foreshadowed the blessings that were to come, it did not fully express them, and so the priests by offering the same sacrifices endlessly year after year cannot wholly free those who come to worship from their sins.

Since then, brothers, we have free access to the sanctuary through the blood of Jesus,

and if I shall ask you any question, ye will neither answer me, nor let me go free.

I left you behind in Crete expressly to correct what defects there were, and to appoint elders in each town, as I directed you??6 men of irreproachable character, who have been married only once, whose children are Christians, free from any suspicion of profligacy or disobedience.

So although as a Christian I feel quite free to order you to do what ought to be done,

Let us go in with true hearts, in certain faith, having our hearts made free from the sense of sin and our bodies washed with clean water:

Women had their dead given back to them living; others let themselves be cruelly attacked, having no desire to go free, so that they might have a better life to come;

Make prayers for us, for we are certain that our hearts are free from the sense of sin, desiring the right way of life in all things.

that you abstain from everything that is offered to idols, from tasting blood, from the meat of animals that have been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves free from these things, you will prosper. Good-by."

Furthermore, brethren, pray for us, that the word of God may have free passage, and be glorified, as it is with you:

And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.

But he who goes on looking into the true law which makes him free, being not a hearer without memory but a doer putting it into effect, this man will have a blessing on his acts.

The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

But Peter told him, "May your money perish with you, because you thought you could obtain God's free gift with money!

Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.

You know that our brother Timothy has been set free. If he comes soon, I will see him with you.

Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,

And baptism, of which this is an image, now gives you salvation, not by washing clean the flesh, but by making you free from the sense of sin before God, through the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead;