21 Bible Verses about Christian Liberty

give no offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the church of God.

but take care that this liberty of yours does not prove a scandal to the weak.

when I say conscience, I don't mean your own, but that of the other: for why should I expose my liberty to the censure of another man's conscience?

for it is there written, Abraham had two sons, the one by a bond-maid, the other by a free-woman. he, who was of the bond-woman, was born according to the ordinary course of nature; but he, who was of the free-woman, was born by virtue of the promise. these things have an allegorical meaning: the two women signify the two covenants, the one from mount Sinai, which is represented by Agar, whose children were born in a state of servitude. read more.
this Agar answers to the Jerusalem now in being, for she is in servitude with her children: but the heavenly Jerusalem is represented by the free-woman, who is the mother of us all.

so then, my brethren, we are not children of the bond-woman, but of the free-woman, by virtue of that freedom which Christ has procur'd for us.

for the spirit you have received is not servile to keep you still in fear; but it is the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry Abba, that is, father.

for the spiritual meaning of the law centers in him, and the spirit of the law is gospel-liberty:

even so we, whilst we were children, were in a state of servitude to the elements of the world. but when the time appointed was accomplished,

If then you are dead with Christ, in respect of those shadows of the Jewish state; why do ye, as if you were still in that state, submit to those ordinances?

Stand fast therefore, and be not hampered again with the yoke of bondage.

even so we, whilst we were children, were in a state of servitude to the elements of the world. but when the time appointed was accomplished, God sent forth his own son born of a woman, and subject to the law, to redeem those, who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

for, brethren, you have been called to liberty. only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another.

men. You are free, don't let your liberty serve as a pretext for vice: but act as the servants

Stand fast therefore, and be not hampered again with the yoke of bondage.

I did not show them the lest compliance by way of submission, that the doctrine of the gospel might remain among you.

being then set free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

for by its being dead, we are set free from sin.

for the christian dispensation of a spiritual life has set me free from the legal state of sin and death.

but now we are delivered by the death of the law, which held us in bondage: that we might serve according to the living spirit, and not in the dead letter of the law.

whereas, he that attentively considers the perfect law of liberty, and is attach'd thereto, he is not a forgetful hearer, but reduces it to practice, and his conduct is crown'd with hapiness.

speak and act as those, who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

Jesus answered them, I declare unto you, whosoever committeth sin, is a slave to sin.

for when ye were the vassals of sin, ye were not in the service of virtue.

"the spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

when I say conscience, I don't mean your own, but that of the other: for why should I expose my liberty to the censure of another man's conscience?

for tho' I am independent of all men, yet have I subjected myself to all, that I might gain the more.

for the slave that turns christian, is the Lord's freedman: likewise, the freeman that becomes a convert is Christ's servant.

who has deliver'd you from the state of darkness, and has translated you into the kingdom of his beloved son.

Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us. (for it is written, " cursed is every one, that hangeth upon a tree.")

for, brethren, you have been called to liberty. only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another.

and as to the false brethren, who insidiously crept in to spy out our liberty which we have by Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude;

and deliver them who thro' fear of death were all their life-time in a state of slavery.

whilst they promise others liberty, they themselves are slaves to their corrupt passions. for he that is vanquished, is a slave to the conqueror.

and therefore hope to be removed from this slavish condition of mortality to the free inheritance of divine glory.

and therefore hope to be removed from this slavish condition of mortality to the free inheritance of divine glory.

if the son therefore shall make you free, you will be free indeed.

and the truth shall make you free.

For certain men have insinuated themselves among you, who were formerly proscrib'd to be punish'd; impious men, who pervert the divine favour to licentiousness, and renounce their only master, and Jesus Christ our Lord.