21 Bible Verses about Christian Liberty

Do not be a cause of stumbling either to Jews of to Gentiles, or to the church of God.

But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

and for your conscience sake??is conscience, not your own. "But," you may object, "why should my freedom be decided upon another's scruples of conscience?

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and one by the free woman; but while the son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, the son by the free woman was born in fulfilment of a promise. Now all this is an allegory, for these women are the two covenants; one from Mount Sinai, which is Hagar bearing children into bondage read more.
(for the word Hagar stands for Mt. Sinai in Arabia and represents the present Jerusalem who with her children is in bondage.) But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

So, brothers, we are the children of no slave woman, but of free woman. For freedom did not Christ set us free;

For you have not received a spirit of slavery in order that you should once more be afraid; but you have received a spirit of adoption, in which we cry out, "My Father, my dear Father!"

(The Lord means the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord abides there is freedom.)

So we Jews also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the empty externalities of the world.

If you died with Christ to the world's rudimentary notions, why, as if you still lived in the world, do you submit yourselves to dogmatisms found on teachings and doctrines of men??21 such as "Do not handle this," "You must not taste that," "Do not touch this"??22 all things which are intended to perish in the using?

stand firm then, and do not be again entangled in a yoke of bondage.

So we Jews also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the empty externalities of the world. But when the fulness of time was come God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under law, to redeem from captivity those under law, in order that we might receive our sonship.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another.

Live like free men; and yet do not make your freedom a cloak for misconduct, but be the slaves of God.

stand firm then, and do not be again entangled in a yoke of bondage.

To them we did not yield submission even for an hour, in order that the truth of the gospel might abide unshaken among you.

and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness??19 I speak in these homely figures because of the weakness of your fleshly nature??ust as you once surrendered your faculties into slavery to impurity and to all lawlessness, so now you must surrender your faculties into slavery to righteousness, unto deeds of holiness.

for the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

But now we have been released from the Law, because we are dead to that in which we were held; so that we are now in thralldom in new and spiritual conditions, and not under the old written code.

But the man who looks closely into the perfect law??he law of liberty??nd continues looking, this man will be blessed in his deed because he is not a hearer who forgets, but a doer who does.

So speak and act like men who are to be judged by the law of liberty.

"In solemn truth I tell you," Jesus replied, "every one who commits sin is a slave

For when you were the slaves of sin, you were under no subjection to righteousness.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to the prisoners, And recovery of sight to the blind; To set at liberty those that are bruised,

and for your conscience sake??is conscience, not your own. "But," you may object, "why should my freedom be decided upon another's scruples of conscience?

Though free from all men, I make myself the slave of all, that I may win the more.

For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; and in the same way, the free man who is called is Christ's slave.

For he has delivered us out of the dominion of the darkness, and transplanted us into the kingdom of his dear Son,

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us (for it is written, Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree),

For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another.

Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again.

And might deliver those who through fear of death had been subject to life-long bondage.

They promise them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of rottenness! (For indeed a man is the slave of anything which masters him.)

"So then, if the Son shall set you free, you will be free indeed.

"and you shall know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

For certain men have crept in stealthily??en predestined in ancient prophecies for this condemnation??mpious ones! They pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness, and deny Jesus Christ, our sole Master and Lord.