25 Bible Verses about Abuse, Of Christian Freedom

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body that you should obey the lusts of it:

For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

Therefore let us indeed, having around us so great a cloud of witnesses, having laid aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, run with patience the race which is set before us, looking unto Jesus the beginner and perfecter of our faith; who for the joy that was placed before him, endured the cross, looking with contempt at the shame, and has sat down on the right hand of the throne of God.

If any one may see his brother sinning a sin not unto death, he shall ask, and he will give him life to those sinning not unto death. There is a sin unto death; concerning this I do not say that you may ask. All unrighteousness is sin: and there is sin not unto death. We know that every one who has been born of God, sins not; but the one having been born of God keeps himself, and the evil one does not touch him.

Then what shall we say? must we abide in sin, in order that grace may abound? It could not be so. How shall we, who are dead unto sin, live any longer in it?

What then? can we commit sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? it could not be so.

But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unjust administering wrath? I speak according to a man. It could not be so: then how will God judge the world? And if the truth of God through my falsehood abounded unto His glory, why am I still judged as a sinner?read more.
are we not indeed thus traduced, and as some say we speak, that, Let us do evil in order that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

But if seeking to be justified in Christ, we may also be found sinners, then is Christ the minister of sin? it could not be so. For if I again build the things which I have destroyed, I constitute myself a transgressor. For I through law died to law, in, order that I may live unto God.read more.
I am crucified along with Christ; and I live no longer, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. I do not make void the grace of God: for if righteousness was through law, then Christ died gratuitiously.

See lest this liberty of yours may become a stumblingblock to the weak. For if any one may see you having knowledge sitting at the table in the idol temple, will not the conscience of him, being weak, be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to the idols? For the weak one is destroyed by your knowledge, the brother for whom Christ died.read more.
And you, sinning so against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, are sinning against Christ.

For you were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty unto an occasion to the flesh, but through divine love serve one another.

as free, and not as having the freedom as a cover of evil, but as servants of God.

Fornication is truly heard of among you, and such fornication which is not among the heathens, that one should have the wife of his father. And have you been inflated, and have not rather mourned, that the one having done this work may be taken from your midst?

All things are lawful to me, but all things are not profitable: all things are lawful, but I will not be brought under the power of any. Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats: but God will destroy both this and them. The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body: but God both raised up the Lord, and will raise you up through his power.read more.
Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? then taking the members of Christ, shall I make them the members of a harlot? it could not be so. Do you not know that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? for it says, They two shall be one flesh. But he who is joined to the Lord is one spirit. Fly from fornication. Every sin which a man may commit is outside of his body; the one committing fornication sins against his own body. Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? and you are not your own; for you have been bought with a price: indeed glorify God in your body.

But I have it against you, that you suffer the woman Jezebel, who says herself to be a prophet, and teaches and deceives my servants to commit fornication, and to cat things sacrificed to idols. And I gave her time that she might repent, and she does not wish to repent of her fornication. Behold, I cast her on a bed, and those who commit fornication along with her into great tribulation, until they shall repent of her works.

And a certain man, Ananias by name, with Sapphira his wife, sold an estate and kept back a part from the price, his wife knowing it along with him; and having brought a certain part, laid it at the feet of the apostles.

Therefore you coming together, it is not to eat the Lord's supper: for each one takes his own supper in eating; and one is hungry, and another is drunken. For have you not houses in which to eat and to drink? or do you cast contempt on the church of God, and shame those not having? What do I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? I do not praise you.

Therefore let us indeed, having around us so great a cloud of witnesses, having laid aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us, run with patience the race which is set before us,

But if we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous that he may forgive us our sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. If we may say that we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Let no one deceive you with empty words: for through these the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience.

who stumble over the word, disbelieving: unto which they indeed were appointed.

And in this we know that we have known him, if we are keeping his commandments. The one saying, I have known him, and keeping not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

Every one doing sin does also a transgression of the law: and sin is the transgression of the law.

Follow after divine love; and seek the spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy. For the one speaking with a tongue speaks not to men, but to God; for no one hears him; but he speaks mysteries in the spirit: but the one prophesying speaks to men edification, exhortation, and comfort.read more.
The one speaking with a tongue edifies himself; but the one prophesying edifies the church. But I wish you all to speak with tongues, but rather that you may prophesy: but greater is the one prophesying, than the one speaking with tongues, unless he may interpret, in order that the church may receive edification. But now, brethren, if I may come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, unless I shall speak to you either in revelation, or knowledge, or prophecy, or in instruction? Nevertheless things without life, giving forth a voice, whether pipe or harp, if it may not give a distinction to the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped, or what is harped? For if indeed the trumpet may give an uncertain sound, who will prepare himself for the war? Thus also if you through the tongue may give an indistinct word, how will that which is spoken be known? for you will be speaking into the air. If it so happens that there are so many kinds of voices in the world, and nothing without a voice; if then I do not understand the power of the voice, I will be a barbarian to the one speaking, and the one speaking will be a barbarian to me. So also you, since you are zealots of spirits, seek that you may abound unto the edification of the church. Therefore let the one speaking with a tongue, pray that one may interpret. For if I pray with a tongue, my spirit is praying, but my mind is not fruitful. Then what is it? I will pray with my spirit, and I will pray with my mind also: I will sing with my spirit, and I will sing with my mind also. Since if you may bless with the spirit, how will one occupying the place of the unlearned say Amen to your blessing? since he does not know what you are saying. For you indeed bless beautifully, but the other is not edified. I thank God, I speak with tongue more than you all: but I would rather speak five words in the church with my understanding, so that I may indeed teach others, than ten thousand words in a tongue. Brethren, be not children in intellect: but be infants in evil, but be perfect in intellect.

But concerning things offered to idols: we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge puffs up, but divine love builds up. If any one seems to know anything, yet he knows not as it behooves him to know; but if any one loves God he is known of him.read more.
Therefore concerning the eating of things offered to idols, we know that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God except one. For if indeed there are those who are called gods, whether in heaven or upon the earth; as there are gods many, and lords many; but there is to us one God, the Father, from whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we in him. But there is not knowledge in all people: but some, with the conscience of the idol even until now, eat as if it was sacrificed to the idol; and their conscience being weak is polluted. But meat will not commend us to God; neither if we eat are we the better; nor if we eat not are we the worse. See lest this liberty of yours may become a stumblingblock to the weak. For if any one may see you having knowledge sitting at the table in the idol temple, will not the conscience of him, being weak, be encouraged to eat things sacrificed to the idols? For the weak one is destroyed by your knowledge, the brother for whom Christ died. And you, sinning so against the brethren, and wounding their weak conscience, are sinning against Christ. If indeed meat causes my brother to stumble, I never eat any more meat, in order that I may not lay a stumblingblock in the way of my brother.

But I have a few things against thee, because thou hast there those holding the teachings of Balaam, who taught Balak to cast a stumblingblock before the sons of Israel, and to eat things sacrificed to idols, and to commit fornication.