21 Bible Verses about Christian Liberty

Stop being stumbling blocks to Jews or Greeks or to the church of God,

But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block to overscrupulous people.

I mean his conscience, not yours. Why then should my personal freedom be limited by another's conscience?

For the Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave girl, the other by a free woman. But the child of the slave girl was born in the ordinary course of nature, while the child of the free woman was born to fulfill the promise. This is spoken as an allegory. For these women are two covenants, one coming from Mount Sinai, bearing children that are to be slaves; read more.
that is, Hagar (and Hagar means Mount Sinai, in Arabia) and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for Jerusalem is in slavery with her children. But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

So, brothers, we are children, not of a slave girl but of a free woman.

For you do not have a sense of servitude to fill you with dread again, but the consciousness of adopted sons by which we cry, "Abba," that is, "Father."

Now the Lord means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

So when we were spiritually under age, we were slaves to the world's crude notions,

If once through fellowship with Christ you died and were separated from the world's crude notions, why do you live as though you belonged to the world? Why submit to rules such as,

This is the freedom with which Christ has made us free. So keep on standing in it, and stop letting your necks be fastened in the yoke of slavery again.

So when we were spiritually under age, we were slaves to the world's crude notions, but when the proper time had come, God sent His Son, born of a woman, born subject to law, to ransom those who were subject to law, so that we might be adopted as sons.

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; only you must not let your freedom be an excuse for the gratification of your lower nature, but in love be slaves to one another.

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for doing evil, but live like slaves of God.

This is the freedom with which Christ has made us free. So keep on standing in it, and stop letting your necks be fastened in the yoke of slavery again.

But we did not for a moment yield them submission, in order that the truth of the good news might prevail for you.

and since you have been freed from sin, you have become the slaves of right-doing.

For when a man is dead, he is freed from the claims of sin.

For the life-giving power of the Spirit through union with Christ Jesus has set us free from the power of sin and death.

But now we have been freed from our relation to the law; we have ended our relation to that by which we once were held in bonds, so that we may serve in a new spiritual way and not in the old literalistic way.

But the man who looks at the flawless law that makes men free, and keeps on looking, proving himself to be, not a forgetful hearer but an actual doer of what it requires, will be blessed in what he does.

You must continue talking and acting like people who are to be judged by the law that treats them as free.

Jesus answered them, "I most solemnly say to you, everyone who lives in sin is a slave of sin.

For when you were slaves of sin, you were free so far as doing right was concerned.

"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 release to captives and recovery of sight to the blind; to send the downtrodden away in liberty and

I mean his conscience, not yours. Why then should my personal freedom be limited by another's conscience?

Yes, indeed, though I am free from any human power, I have made myself a slave to everybody, to win as many as possible.

For the slave who has been called to union with the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in the same way the freeman who has been called is a slave of Christ.

It is God who has delivered us out of the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of His dearly loved Son,

Christ ransomed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us -- for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who is hanged on a tree" --

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; only you must not let your freedom be an excuse for the gratification of your lower nature, but in love be slaves to one another.

they did not try it even for the sake of the false brothers who had been smuggled in, who stole in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, so as to make us slaves again.

and set at liberty those who all their lifetime had been subject to slavery because of their dread of death.

promising them freedom, though they are slaves of destruction themselves; for a man is the slave of anything that conquers him.

that even nature itself might finally be set free from its bondage to decay, so as to share the glorious freedom of God's children.

that even nature itself might finally be set free from its bondage to decay, so as to share the glorious freedom of God's children.

So if the Son sets you free, you will be really free.

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

For certain persons have sneaked in -- their doom was written down long ago -- godless persons, who turn the favor of our God into an excuse for licentiousness, and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.