8 Bible Verses about Bondage, Spiritual

but all through my body I see another principle in conflict with the law of my reason, which makes me a prisoner to that law of sin that runs through my body.

Jesus answered, "I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

For I see that you are a bitter poison and a bundle of iniquity!"

Do you not know that when you submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness?

but all through my body I see another principle in conflict with the law of my reason, which makes me a prisoner to that law of sin that runs through my body.

Jesus answered, "I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

For I see that you are a bitter poison and a bundle of iniquity!"

Do you not know that when you submit to being someone's slaves, and obeying him, you are the slaves of the one whom you obey, whether your slavery is to sin, and leads to death, or is to obedience, and leads to uprightness?

promising them freedom when they are themselves slaves of destruction; for a man is the slave of whatever overcomes him.

We know that the Law is spiritual, but I am physical, sold into slavery to sin.

and they may yet return to their senses and escape from the toils of the devil, who has caught them to make them do his will.

He must also be a man of good standing with outsiders, or he may get into disgrace and be entrapped by the slanderers.

and so you have been freed from sin, and made slaves of uprightness.

But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you get is consecration, and the final result is eternal life.

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

For the life-giving law of the Spirit through Christ Jesus has freed you from the Law of sin and death.

"The spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to preach the good news to the poor, He has sent me to announce to the prisoners their release and to the blind the recovery of their sight, To set the down-trodden at liberty,

And he began by saying to them, "This passage of Scripture has been fulfilled here in your hearing today!"

Therefore since these children referred to have the same mortal nature, Jesus also shared it, like them, in order that by his death he might dethrone the lord of death, the devil, and free from their slavery men who had always lived in fear of death.