10 Bible Verses about Liberty

You are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and each of you to his clan.

For You have shattered their oppressive yoke
and the rod on their shoulders,
the staff of their oppressor,
just as You did on the day of Midian.

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

I will break Assyria in My land;
I will tread him down on My mountain.
Then his yoke will be taken from them,
and his burden will be removed from their shoulders.

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom to them,

to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor,
and the day of our God’s vengeance;
to comfort all who mourn,

knowing that whatever good each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord.

There is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

In Christ there is not Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave and free; but Christ is all and in all.

For I planned the day of vengeance,
and the year of My redemption came.

“Everything is permissible,” but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible,” but not everything builds up.

“Everything is permissible for me,” but not everything is helpful. “Everything is permissible for me,” but I will not be brought under the control of anything.

Although I am a free man and not anyone’s slave, I have made myself a slave to everyone, in order to win more people.

For you were called to be free, brothers; only don’t use this freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.

As God’s slaves, live as free people, but don’t use your freedom as a way to conceal evil.

But be careful that this right of yours in no way becomes a stumbling block to the weak.

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

This issue arose because of false brothers smuggled in, who came in secretly to spy on the freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

You are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim freedom in the land for all its inhabitants. It will be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and each of you to his clan.

This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord after King Zedekiah made a covenant with all the people who were in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom to them,

Today you repented and did what pleased Me, each of you proclaiming freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me at the temple called by My name. But you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each has taken back his male and female slaves who had been freed [to go] wherever they wanted, and you have [again] subjugated them to be your slaves. "Therefore, this is what the Lord says: You have not obeyed Me by proclaiming freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. I hereby proclaim freedom for you"-[this is] the Lord's declaration-"to the sword, to plague, and to famine! I will make you a horror to all the earth's kingdoms.

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever he wanted.

In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did whatever he wanted.

The commander replied, “I bought this citizenship for a large amount of money.”

“But I was born a citizen,” Paul said.

The Spirit of the Lord God is on Me,
because the Lord has anointed Me
to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives
and freedom to the prisoners;

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,

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

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

in order to open blind eyes,
to bring out prisoners from the dungeon,
and those sitting in darkness from the prison house.

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

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

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

This issue arose because of false brothers smuggled in, who came in secretly to spy on the freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

The Spirit of the Lord God is on Me,
because the Lord has anointed Me
to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
to proclaim liberty to the captives
and freedom to the prisoners;

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,

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

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

in order to open blind eyes,
to bring out prisoners from the dungeon,
and those sitting in darkness from the prison house.

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

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