8 Bible Verses about Bondage, Spiritual

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

The wicked will be captured by his own iniquities, and he will be held by the cords of his own sin.

Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

For I see that you are bitterly envious and in bondage to sin."

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

But I see a different law in my members waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that is in my members.

Jesus answered them, "I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

For I see that you are bitterly envious and in bondage to sin."

Do you not know that if you present yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or obedience resulting in righteousness?

Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, "So, you have found me, my enemy!" Elijah replied, "I have found you, because you are committed to doing evil in the sight of the Lord.

They passed their sons and daughters through the fire, and practiced divination and omen reading. They committed themselves to doing evil in the sight of the Lord and made him angry.

This is what the Lord says: "Where is your mother's divorce certificate by which I divorced her? Or to which of my creditors did I sell you? Look, you were sold because of your sins; because of your rebellious acts I divorced your mother.

For this is what the Lord says: "You were sold for nothing, and you will not be redeemed for money."

For we know that the law is spiritual -- but I am unspiritual, sold into slavery to sin.

and they will come to their senses and escape the devil's trap where they are held captive to do his will.

And he must be well thought of by those outside the faith, so that he may not fall into disgrace and be caught by the devil's trap.

and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

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

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,

Then he began to tell them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled even as you heard it being read."

You, however, the Lord has selected and brought from Egypt, that iron-smelting furnace, to be his special people as you are today.

Therefore, since the children share in flesh and blood, he likewise shared in their humanity, so that through death he could destroy the one who holds the power of death (that is, the devil), and set free those who were held in slavery all their lives by their fear of death.

and they made the Israelites serve rigorously. They made their lives bitter by hard service with mortar and bricks and by all kinds of service in the fields. Every kind of service the Israelites were required to give was rigorous.

"I, the Lord, officially commission you; I take hold of your hand. I protect you and make you a covenant mediator for people, and a light to the nations, to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.