19 Bible Verses about Religious Freedom

For you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for the physical, but in love be slaves to one another.

Christ ransomed us from the Law's curse by taking our curse upon himself (for the Scripture says, "Cursed be anyone who is hung on a tree")

This is the freedom with which Christ has freed us. So stand firm in it, and do not get under a yoke of slavery again.

Now the Lord here means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

For while the Law foreshadowed the blessings that were to come, it did not fully express them, and so the priests by offering the same sacrifices endlessly year after year cannot wholly free those who come to worship from their sins.

One man's faith allows him to eat anything, while the overscrupulous man eats nothing but vegetables.

If you were a slave when you were called, never mind. Even if you can gain your freedom, make the most of your present condition instead.

But you must take care that this right of yours does not prove a hindrance to the overscrupulous.

For sin must no longer control you, for you live not under law but under mercy.

We are free to do anything, but not everything is good for us. We are free to do anything, but not everything builds up character.

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

his scruples, I say, not yours. For why should my liberty of action be limited by another's scruples?

to gratify the false brothers who had been smuggled in, who sneaked in to spy upon the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, so as to reduce us to slavery again.

"I had to pay a large sum for my citizenship," said the colonel. "But I am a citizen by birth," said Paul.

For a slave who has been called to union with the Lord is a freedman of the Lord, just as a free man who has been called is a slave of Christ.

But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you get is consecration, and the final result is eternal life.

Treat people who are overscrupulous in their faith like brothers; do not criticize their views.

One man thinks one day better than another, while another thinks them all alike. Everybody must be fully convinced in his own mind.

Such practices pass for wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, and their ascetic discipline, but they carry with them no real distinction, they are really only a catering to the flesh.