for you know that everyone, slave or free, will be rewarded by the Lord for his good conduct.

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,

We are free to do anything, but not everything is good for us. We are free to do anything, but not everything builds up character.

So if the Son sets you free you will be really free.

that you avoid whatever has been sacrificed to idols, the tasting of blood and of the meat of animals that have been strangled, and immorality. Keep yourselves free from these things and you will get on well. Goodbye."

for when a man is dead he is free from the claims of sin.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free as far as uprightness was concerned.

So if she marries another man while her husband is alive, she is called an adulteress, but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and can marry someone else without being an adulteress.

that creation itself would be set free from its bondage to decay, and have the glorious freedom of the children of God.

You must clean out the old yeast and become fresh dough, free from the old as you really are. For our Passover lamb is already sacrificed; it is Christ himself.

For a slave who has been called to union with the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just as a free man who has been called is a slave of Christ.

I want you to be free from all anxiety. An unmarried man is concerned about the Lord's work, and how he can please the Lord.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. If her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she pleases so long as he is a Christian.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not the product of my work in the Lord's service?

Though I am free from anyone's control, I have made myself everyone's slave, so as to win over all the more.

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.

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.

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.

For the Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave-girl, and one by the free woman.

But the child of the slave-girl was born in the ordinary course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born in fulfilment of the promise.

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

Yet what does the Scripture say? "Drive the slave-girl and her son away, for the slave-girl's son shall not share the inheritance with the son of the free woman."

So, brothers, we are children not of a slave but of one who is free.

through dying in his human body) in holiness, and free from reproach or blame, into God's presence??23 if at least you continue firm and steadfast in the exercise of faith, and never shift from the hope held out in the good news to which you listened, which has been preached all over the world, and for which I, Paul, became a worker.

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.

He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right.

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

and free from their slavery men who had always lived in fear of death.

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.

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,

But whoever looks at the faultless law that makes men free and keeps looking, so that he does not just listen and forget, but obeys and acts upon it, will be blessed in what he does.

You must talk and act like men who expect to be judged by the law that treats men as free.

Free yourselves, therefore, from all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of any kind,

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom an excuse for doing wrong, but be slaves of God.

And he said to her, "My daughter, it is your faith that has cured you. Go in peace and be free from your disease."

The kings of the earth, the nobles, the officers, the rich, the strong??verybody, slave and free??id themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

For the Son of Man himself has not come to be waited on, but to wait on other people, and to give his life to free many others."

Now at festival time he used to set free for them one prisoner, whom they petitioned for.

Pilate asked them, "Do you want me to set the king of the Jews free for you?"

But the high priests stirred up the crowd to get him to set Barabbas free for them instead.

And as Pilate wanted to satisfy the crowd, he set Barabbas free for them, and after having Jesus flogged handed him over to be crucified.

"Now, Master, you will let your slave go free In peace, as you promised,