25 Bible Verses about liberation
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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.
And the 'Lord' is the Spirit, and, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
But now that you have been set free from the control of Sin, and have become servants to God, the fruit that you reap is an ever-increasing holiness, and the end Immortal Life.
We know, indeed, that all Nature alike has been groaning in the pains of labor to this very hour.
For Nature was made subject to imperfection-not by its own choice, but owing to him who made it so--
For he gave himself on our behalf, to deliver us from all wickedness, and to purify for himself a People who should be peculiarly his own and eager to do good.
It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery.
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.
And that, in union with him, every one who believes in him is absolved from every sin from which under the Law of Moses you could not be absolved.
You cannot drink both the Cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake at the Table of the Lord and at the table of demons.
'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,
For he taught them like one who had authority, and not like their Teachers of the Law.
and so might deliver all those who, from fear of death, had all their lives been living in slavery.
(By this he meant the Spirit, which those who had believed in him were to receive; for the Spirit had not yet come, because Jesus had not yet been exalted.)
Miserable man that I am! Who will deliver me from the body that is bringing me to this Death?
For you wilt not abandon my soul to the Place of Death, nor surrender me, your holy one, to undergo corruption.
Accordingly the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first man, and then those of the other who had been crucified with Jesus;
Destined for this before the beginning of the world, he has been revealed in these last days for your sakes,
The Governor, however, said to them: "Which of these two do you wish me to release for you?" "Barabbas," they answered.
But we were hoping that he was the Destined Deliverer of Israel; yes, and besides all this, it is now three days since these things occurred.
For you know that it was not by perishable things, such as silver and gold, that you were Ransomed from the aimless way of living which was handed down to you from your ancestors,