21 Bible Verses about Christian Liberty

Do not cause offence either to Jews or Greeks or to the Church of God;

But take care that this right of yours does not become in any way a stumbling-block to the weak.

I do not say 'your' scruples, but 'his.' For why should the freedom that I claim be condemned by the scruples of another?

Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one the child of the slave-woman and the other the child of the free woman. But the child of the slave-woman was born in the course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born in fulfillment of a promise. This story may be taken as an allegory. The women stand for two Covenants. One Covenant, given from Mount Sinai, produces a race of slaves and is represented by Hagar read more.
(The word Hagar meaning in Arabia Mount Sinai) and it ranks with the Jerusalem of to-day, for she and her children are in slavery. But the Jerusalem above is free, and she it is who is our mother.

And so, Brothers, we are not children of a slave, but of her who is free.

For you did not receive the spirit of a slave, to fill you once more with fear, but the spirit of a son which leads us to cry 'Abba, Our Father.'

And the 'Lord' is the Spirit, and, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

And so is it with us; when we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world;

Since, with Christ, you became dead to the puerile teaching of this world, why do you submit, as though your life were still that of the world,

It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery.

And so is it with us; when we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world; But, when the full time came, God sent his Son--born a woman's child, born subject to Law-- To ransom those who were subject to Law, so that we might take our position as sons.

Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.

Act as free men, yet not using your freedom as those do who make it a cloak for wickedness, but as Servants of God.

It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery.

Why, we did not for a moment yield submission to them, that the Truth of the Good News might be yours always!

Set free from the control of Sin, you became servants to Righteousness.

For the man who has so died has been pronounced righteous and released from Sin.

For through your union with Christ Jesus, the Law of the life- giving Spirit has set you free from the Law of Sin and Death.

But now we are set free from the Law, because we are dead to that which once kept us under restraint; and so we serve under new, spiritual conditions, and not under old, written regulations.

But he who looks carefully into the perfect Law, the Law of Freedom, and continues to do so, not listening to it and then forgetting it, but putting it into practice--that man will be blessed in what he does.

Therefore, speak and act as men who are to be judged by the 'Law of Freedom.'

"In truth I tell you," replied Jesus, "every one who sins is a slave to sin.

While you were still servants of Sin, you were free as regards Righteousness.

'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to bring Good News to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to captives and restoration of sight to the blind, To set the oppressed at liberty,

I do not say 'your' scruples, but 'his.' For why should the freedom that I claim be condemned by the scruples of another?

Although I was entirely free, yet, to win as many converts as possible, I made myself everyone's slave.

For the man who was a slave when he was called to the master's service is the Master's freed-man; so, too, the man who was free when called is Christ's slave.

For God has rescued us from the tyranny of Darkness, and has removed us into the Kingdom of his Son, who is the embodiment of his love,

Christ ransomed us from the curse pronounced in the Law, by taking the curse on himself for us, for Scripture says--'Cursed is any one who is hanged on a tree.'

Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.

But, on account of the false Brothers who had stolen in, the men who had crept in to spy upon the liberty which we have through union with Christ Jesus, in order to bring us back to slavery--

and so might deliver all those who, from fear of death, had all their lives been living in slavery.

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to corrupt habits; for a man is the slave of anything to which he gives way.

Yet not without the hope that some day Nature, also, will be set free from enslavement to decay, and will attain to the freedom which will mark the Glory of the Children of God.

Yet not without the hope that some day Nature, also, will be set free from enslavement to decay, and will attain to the freedom which will mark the Glory of the Children of God.

If, then, the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed!

And you find out the Truth, and the Truth will set you free."

For there have crept in among you certain godless people, whose sentence has long since been pronounced, and who make the mercy of God an excuse for profligacy, and disown our only lord and master, Jesus Christ.