But I didn’t want to do anything without your consent, so that your good deed might not be out of obligation, but of your own free will.

Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those with skin diseases, drive out demons. You have received free of charge; give free of charge.

Therefore, if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free from allegiance to righteousness.

So then, if she gives herself to another man while her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law. Then, if she gives herself to another man, she is not an adulteress.

because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of corruption into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

Were you called while a slave? It should not be a concern to you. But if you can become free, by all means take the opportunity.

For he who is called by the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise he who is called as a free man is Christ’s slave.

A wife is bound as long as her husband is living. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to anyone she wants—only in the Lord.

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? To preach the gospel and offer it free of charge and not make full use of my authority in the gospel.

Although I am a free man and not anyone’s slave, I have made myself a slave to everyone, in order to win more people.

Or did I commit a sin by humbling myself so that you might be exalted, because I preached the gospel of God to you free of charge?

For we were all baptized by one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.

“From strangers,” he said.

“Then the sons are free,” Jesus told him.

“Daughter,” He said to her, “your faith has made you well. Go in peace and be free from your affliction.”

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

There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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

But the one by the slave was born according to the impulse of the flesh, while the one by the free woman was born as the result of a promise.

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

But what does the Scripture say?

Drive out the slave and her son, for the son of the slave will never be a coheir with the son of the free woman.

Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave but of the free woman.

Immediately his mouth was opened and his tongue set free, and he began to speak, praising God.

The Spirit of the Lord is on Me,
because He has anointed Me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent Me
to proclaim freedom to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to set free the oppressed,

we did not eat anyone’s food free of charge; instead, we labored and struggled, working night and day, so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.

When Jesus saw her, He called out to her, “Woman, you are free of your disability.”

and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.

As God’s slaves, live as free people, but don’t use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.

Your life should be free from the love of money. Be satisfied with what you have, for He Himself has said, I will never leave you or forsake you.

And he requires everyone—small and great, rich and poor, free and slave—to be given a mark on his right hand or on his forehead,

and from Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, the firstborn from the dead and the ruler of the kings of the earth.

To Him who loves us and has set us free from our sins by His blood,

Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the military commanders, the rich, the powerful, and every slave and free person hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.

You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

“We are descendants of Abraham,” they answered Him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can You say, ‘You will become free’?”

so that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of commanders, the flesh of mighty men, the flesh of horses and of their riders, and the flesh of everyone, both free and slave, small and great.”