10 Bible Verses about Liberty

So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

For their oppressive yoke and the club that strikes their shoulders, the cudgel the oppressor uses on them, you have shattered, as in the day of Midian's defeat.

At that time the Lord will remove their burden from your shoulders, and their yoke from your neck; the yoke will be taken off because your neck will be too large.

I will break Assyria in my land, I will trample them underfoot on my hills. Their yoke will be removed from my people, the burden will be lifted from their shoulders.

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to grant their slaves their freedom.

to announce the year when the Lord will show his favor, the day when our God will seek vengeance, to console all who mourn,

because you know that each person, whether slave or free, if he does something good, this will be rewarded by the Lord.

There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female -- for all of you are one in Christ Jesus.

Here there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all and in all.

For I looked forward to the day of vengeance, and then payback time arrived.

"Everything is lawful," but not everything is beneficial. "Everything is lawful," but not everything builds others up.

"All things are lawful for me" -- but not everything is beneficial. "All things are lawful for me" -- but I will not be controlled by anything.

For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.

Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God's slaves.

But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.

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

Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

So you must consecrate the fiftieth year, and you must proclaim a release in the land for all its inhabitants. That year will be your jubilee; each one of you must return to his property and each one of you must return to his clan.

The Lord spoke to Jeremiah after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to grant their slaves their freedom.

Recently, however, you yourselves showed a change of heart and did what is pleasing to me. You granted your fellow countrymen their freedom and you made a covenant to that effect in my presence in the house that I have claimed for my own. But then you turned right around and showed that you did not honor me. Each of you took back your male and female slaves whom you had freed as they desired, and you forced them to be your slaves again. So I, the Lord, say: "You have not really obeyed me and granted freedom to your neighbor and fellow countryman. Therefore, I will grant you freedom, the freedom to die in war, or by starvation or disease. I, the Lord, affirm it! I will make all the kingdoms of the earth horrified at what happens to you.

In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.

In those days Israel had no king. Each man did what he considered to be right.

The commanding officer answered, "I acquired this citizenship with a large sum of money." "But I was even born a citizen," Paul replied.

The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,

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

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

to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.

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

For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.

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

Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,

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

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

to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.

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

For the law of the life-giving Spirit in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.