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.

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

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

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."

And Agrippa said to Festus, "This man could have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."

But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if by the one man's trespass many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many.

And the free gift is not like the effect of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the gift following many trespasses brings justification.

and, having been set free from sin, you have become slaves of righteousness.

When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is holiness and its end, eternal life.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So then, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and though she marries another man, she is not an adulteress.

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

because the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and obtain the glorious liberty of the children of God.

For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord's freedman; likewise he who was free when called is Christ's slave.

But I want you to be free from concern. One who is unmarried is concerned about the affairs of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.

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

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?

What then is my reward? Just this: that in my preaching I may offer the gospel free of charge, and so not make full use of my right in the gospel.

For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave and one by the free woman.

But the son by the slave was born according to the flesh, and the son by the free woman through the promise.

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

But what does the scripture say? "Cast out the slave and her son, for the son of the slave shall not inherit with the son of the free woman."

So then, brethren, we are not children of the slave, but of the free woman.

It was for freedom that Christ has set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether he is a slave or free.

Here there is no Greek and Jew, circumcised and uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free, but Christ is all, and in all.

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,