19 Bible Verses about Religious Freedom

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; only you must not let your freedom be an excuse for the gratification of your lower nature, but in love be slaves to one another.

Christ ransomed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us -- for the Scripture says, "Cursed be everyone who is hanged on a tree" --

This is the freedom with which Christ has made us free. So keep on standing in it, and stop letting your necks be fastened in the yoke of slavery again.

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

For since the law cast only a shadow of the blessings to come and did not possess the reality itself of those blessings, the priests with the same sacrifices that are perpetually offered year after year cannot make perfect those who come to worship.

One man believes that he can eat anything; another who is overscrupulous eats nothing but vegetables.

Were you called while a slave? Stop letting that annoy you. Yet, if you can win your freedom, take advantage of such an opportunity.

But you must see to it that this right of yours does not become a stumbling block to overscrupulous people.

For sin must not any longer exert its mastery over you, for now you are not living as slaves to law but as subjects to God's favor.

Everything is permissible for people, but not everything is good for them. Everything is permissible for people, but not everything builds up their personality.

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

I mean his conscience, not yours. Why then should my personal freedom be limited by another's conscience?

they did not try it even for the sake of the false brothers who had been smuggled in, who stole in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus, so as to make us slaves again.

Then the colonel said, "I paid a large sum for this citizenship of mine." Paul said, "But I was born a citizen."

For the slave who has been called to union with the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in the same way the freeman who has been called is a slave of Christ.

But now, since you have been freed from sin and have become the slaves of God, the immediate result is consecration, and the final destiny is eternal life.

Make it your practice to receive into full Christian fellowship people who are overscrupulous, but not to criticize their views.

One man rates one day above another, another rates them all alike. Let every man be fully convinced in his own mind.

Such practices have the outward expression of wisdom, with their self-imposed devotions, their self-humiliation, their torturings of the body, but they are of no value; they really satisfy the lower nature.