For I testify that according to their ability, and even beyond their ability, they gave of their own free will,

but without your consent I did not want to do anything, so that your goodness would not be, in effect, by compulsion but of your own free will.

So if the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek marriage.

so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great."

and might free those who through fear of death were subject to slavery all their lives.

For this reason he is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance, now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the transgressions committed under the first covenant.

Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, for God has said, "I will never leave you, nor will I forsake you."

Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a covering for evil; live as servants of God.

Then the kings of the earth and the great men and the generals and the rich and the strong, and every one, slave and free, hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,

And he causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to be given a mark on their right hand or the forehead,

And when Peter said, "From others," Jesus said to him, "Then the sons are free.

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

They answered him, "We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How can you say, 'You will be made free'?"

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves free from these, you will do well. Farewell."