19 Bible Verses about Religious Freedom

For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another.

Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the Law by becoming a curse for us (for it is written, Cursed is every one who is hanged upon a tree),

stand firm then, and do not be again entangled in a yoke of bondage.

(The Lord means the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord abides there is freedom.)

For the Law, being only a shadow of the good things to come, and not their very substance, its priests cannot with the same sacrifice which year after year they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.

One man has faith to eat anything; but he whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables.

Were you called in slavery? Let not that trouble you; but if you can become free make use of the opportunity.

But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

For sin shall not lord it over you; for you are not under the rule of law, but under the rule of grace.

"All things are lawful," you say? But not all things are expedient; "all things are lawful"; but not all build up.

"So then, if the Son shall set you free, you will be free indeed.

and for your conscience sake??is conscience, not your own. "But," you may object, "why should my freedom be decided upon another's scruples of conscience?

Yet there were false brethren who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us again.

"I paid a large sum to get this citizenship," said the tribune. "But I was citizen-born," said Paul.

For the slave who has been called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; and in the same way, the free man who is called is Christ's slave.

But now that you have been set free from sin and become slaves of God, the harvest-fruit which you are reaping tends to produce holiness, and it ends is life eternal.

Welcome a man of weak faith, but not for the purpose of deciding doubtful points.

There are some who esteem one day above another; there are others who esteem all days alike; let each other be fully persuaded in his own mind.

For these precepts, although they have a show of wisdom with their self-imposed devotions and fastings and bodily austerities, are of no real value against the indulgence of the carnal appetites.