'Free' in the Bible
And [when he] said, "From foreigners," Jesus said to him, "Then the sons are free.
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
They replied to him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have not been enslaved to anyone at any time. How do you say, 'You will become free'?"
and having been set free from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.
For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with respect to righteousness.
But now, having been set free from sin and having been enslaved to God, you have your fruit [leading] to sanctification, and its end [is] eternal life.
Therefore as a result, if she belongs to another man [while] her husband is living, she will be called an adulteress. But if her husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is not an adulteress [if she] belongs to another man.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
that the creation itself also will be set free from its servility to decay, into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
Were you called [while] a slave? Do not let it be a concern to you. But if indeed you are able to become free, rather make use of [it].
For the one who is called in the Lord [while] a slave is the Lord's freedperson. Likewise the one who is called [while] free is a slave of Christ.
Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek release. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
But I want you to be free from care. The unmarried person cares for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord.
A wife is bound for as long a time [as] her husband lives. But if her husband {dies}, she is free to marry whomever she wishes, only in the Lord.
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
What then is my reward? That [when I] proclaim the gospel, I may offer the gospel free of charge, in order not to make full use of my right in the gospel.
For [although I] am free from all [people], I have enslaved myself to all, in order that I may gain more.
For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free [persons], and all were made to drink one Spirit.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
But the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.
For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.
[because you] know that each one of you, whatever good he should do, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.
where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, slave, [or] free, but Christ [is] all, and in all.
and could set free these who through fear of death were subject to slavery throughout all their lives.
Your lifestyle [must be] free from the love of money, being content with what you have. For he himself has said, "I will never desert you, and I will never abandon you."
[Live] as free [persons], and not using your freedom as a covering for evil, but as slaves of God.
And the kings of the earth, and the most important people, and the military leaders, and the rich, and the powerful, and every slave and free person hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,
And he causes all [people], the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, that they give them a mark on their right hand or on their forehead,
in order that you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of military tribunes, and the flesh of the powerful, and the flesh of horses and those seated on them, and the flesh of all [people], both free and slave, and small and great!"