for it is God who in his goodwill enables you to will this and to achieve it.

the hope being that creation as well as man would one day be freed from its thraldom to decay and gain the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

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

set free from sin, you have passed into the service of righteousness.

Be sure that everyone, slave or free, will be paid back by the Lord and Master for the good he has done.

who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the present evil world ??by the will of our God and Father,

the law of the Spirit brings the life which is in Christ Jesus, and that law has set me free from the law of sin and death.

No one takes it from me, I lay it down of my own accord: I have power to lay it down and also power to take it up again; I have my Father's orders for this.

but I did not want to do anything without your consent, so that your goodness to me might come of your own free will, without any appearance of constraint.

You ought rather to say, "If the Lord will, we shall live to do this or that."

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for misconduct; live like servants of God.

But a slave who is called to be in the Lord is a freedman of the Lord. Just as a free man who is called is a slave of Christ

Speak, act, as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom;

(The Lord means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is open freedom.)

And it is by this will that we are consecrated, because Jesus Christ once for all has offered up his body.

I can testify that up to their means, aye and beyond their means, they have given ??4 begging me of their own accord, most urgently, for the favour of contributing to the support of the saints.

but since we know a man is justified simply by faith in Jesus Christ and not by doing what the Law commands, we ourselves have believed in Christ Jesus so as to get justified by faith in Christ and not by doing what the Law commands ??for by doing what the Law commands no person shall be justified.

Much more then, now that we are justified by his blood, shall we be saved by him from Wrath.

for I have come down from heaven not to carry out my own will but the will of him who sent me,

For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift,

and to the very end he will guarantee that you are vindicated on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

with the freedom for which Christ set us free. Make a firm stand then, do not slip into any yoke of servitude.

you will understand the truth, and the truth will set you free."