that the creation itself will also be set free from the bondage of corruption into the glorious freedom of God’s children.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

and having been liberated from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

But now, since you have been liberated from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification—and the end is eternal life!

For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together with labor pains until now.

You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Earth, earth, earth,
hear the word of the Lord!

For the creation was subjected to futility—not willingly, but because of Him who subjected it—in the hope

“Therefore tell the Israelites: I am Yahweh, and I will deliver you from the forced labor of the Egyptians and free you from slavery to them. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and great acts of judgment.

He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for Himself a people for His own possession, eager to do good works.

Christ has liberated us to be free. Stand firm then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.

because the Spirit’s law of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

and everyone who believes in Him is justified from everything that you could not be justified from through the law of Moses.

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

If you keep silent at this time, liberation and deliverance will come to the Jewish people from another place, but you and your father’s house will be destroyed. Who knows, perhaps you have come to your royal position for such a time as this.”

You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons.

At the end of seven years, each of you must free his Hebrew brother who sold himself to you. He may serve you six years, but then you must send him out free from you. But your ancestors did not obey Me or pay any attention.

“There is no peace for the wicked,” says the Lord.

The Spirit of the Lord is on Me,
because He has anointed Me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent Me
to proclaim freedom to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to set free the oppressed,

The goat will carry on it all their wrongdoings into a desolate land, and he will release it there.

because He was teaching them like one who had authority, and not like their scribes.

This is what the Lord of Hosts says:

Israelites and Judeans alike have been oppressed.
All their captors hold them fast;
they refuse to release them.

and free those who were held in slavery all their lives by the fear of death.

But an angel of the Lord opened the doors of the jail during the night, brought them out, and said,

On that day
his burden will fall from your shoulders,
and his yoke from your neck.
The yoke will be broken because of fatness.

As for you,
because of the blood of your covenant,
I will release your prisoners
from the waterless cistern.

He said this about the Spirit. Those who believed in Jesus were going to receive the Spirit, for the Spirit had not yet been received because Jesus had not yet been glorified.

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this dying body?

Isn’t the fast I choose:
To break the chains of wickedness,
to untie the ropes of the yoke,
to set the oppressed free,
and to tear off every yoke?

All the officials and people who entered into covenant to free their male and female slaves—in order not to enslave them any longer—obeyed and freed them.

because You will not leave me in Hades
or allow Your Holy One to see decay.

had Jeremiah brought from the guard’s courtyard and turned him over to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, son of Shaphan, to take him home. So he settled among his own people.

So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man and of the other one who had been crucified with Him.

He was chosen before the foundation of the world but was revealed at the end of the times for you

I wore sackcloth as my clothing,
and I was a joke to them.

For I Yahweh your God,
the Holy One of Israel, and your Savior,
give Egypt as a ransom for you,
Cush and Seba in your place.

The governor asked them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?”

“Barabbas!” they answered.

But we were hoping that He was the One who was about to redeem Israel. Besides all this, it’s the third day since these things happened.

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,