'Free' in the Bible

"Naphtali is a doe set free, who bears beautiful fawns.

"If you buy a Hebrew servant, he shall serve six years and in the seventh he shall go out free without paying anything.

But if the servant shall plainly say, 'I love my master, my wife, and my children. I will not go out free;'

If he doesn't do these three things for her, she may go free without paying any money.

"If a man strikes his servant's eye, or his maid's eye, and destroys it, he shall let him go free for his eye's sake.

If he strikes out his male servant's tooth, or his female servant's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth's sake.

"'If a man lies carnally with a woman who is a slave girl, pledged to be married to another man, and not ransomed, or given her freedom; they shall be punished. They shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

The priest shall cause her to swear, and shall tell the woman, "If no man has lain with you, and if you haven't gone aside to uncleanness, being under your husband, be free from this water of bitterness that brings a curse.

If the woman isn't defiled, but is clean; then she shall be free, and shall conceive seed.

The man shall be free from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.'"

If your brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, is sold to you, and serves you six years; then in the seventh year you shall let him go free from you.

When you let him go free from you, you shall not let him go empty:

It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and Yahweh your God will bless you in all that you do.

When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out in the army, neither shall he be assigned any business: he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer his wife whom he has taken.

She said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" He awoke out of his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.

The men of Israel said, "Have you seen this man who is come up? He has surely come up to defy Israel. It shall be, that the man who kills him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel."

These are the singers, heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites, [who lived] in the rooms [and were] free [from other service]; for they were employed in their work day and night.

The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master.

"My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

"Who has set the wild donkey free? Or who has loosened the bonds of the swift donkey,

They are free from burdens of men, neither are they plagued like other men.

to hear the groans of the prisoner; to free those who are condemned to death;

The king sent and freed him; even the ruler of peoples, and let him go free.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free. HEY

Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.

A false witness shall not be unpunished. He who pours out lies shall not go free.

I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways. He shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward," says Yahweh of Armies.

"Isn't this the fast that I have chosen: to release the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke?

that every man should let his male servant, and every man his female servant, who is a Hebrew or a Hebrewess, go free; that none should make bondservants of them, [to wit], of a Jew his brother.

All the princes and all the people obeyed, who had entered into the covenant, that everyone should let his male servant, and everyone his female servant, go free, that none should make bondservants of them any more; they obeyed, and let them go:

but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

At the end of seven years you shall let go every man his brother who is a Hebrew, who has been sold to you, and has served you six years, you shall let him go free from you: but your fathers didn't listen to me, neither inclined their ear.

but you turned and profaned my name, and caused every man his servant, and every man his handmaid, whom you had let go free at their pleasure, to return; and you brought them into subjection, to be to you for servants and for handmaids.

As for you also, because of the blood of your covenant, I have set free your prisoners from the pit in which is no water.

If this comes to the governor's ears, we will persuade him and make you free of worry."

Don't judge, and you won't be judged. Don't condemn, and you won't be condemned. Set free, and you will be set free.

Therefore the Lord answered him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't each one of you free his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath, and lead him away to water?

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'"

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

He who was dead came out, bound hand and foot with wrappings, and his face was wrapped around with a cloth. Jesus said to them, "Free him, and let him go."

Agrippa said to Festus, "This man might have been set free if he had not appealed to Caesar."

who, when they had examined me, desired to set me free, because there was no cause of death in me.

But the free gift isn't like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God, and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.

The gift is not as through one who sinned: for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift came of many trespasses to justification.

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.

But now, being made free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification, and the result of eternal life.

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

Were you called being a bondservant? Don't let that bother you, but if you get an opportunity to become free, use it.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

Are you bound to a wife? Don't seek to be freed. Are you free from a wife? Don't seek a wife.

But I desire to have you to be free from cares. He who is unmarried is concerned for the things of the Lord, how he may please the Lord;

A wife is bound by law for as long as her husband lives; but if the husband is dead, she is free to be married to whoever she desires, only in the Lord.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus Christ, our Lord? Aren't you my work in the Lord?

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

For in one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bond or free; and were all given to drink into one Spirit.

Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God's Good News free of charge?

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

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.

saying to the sixth angel who had one trumpet, "Free the four angels who are bound at the great river Euphrates!"

He causes all, the small and the great, the rich and the poor, and the free and the slave, to be given marks on their right hands, or on their foreheads;

that you may eat the flesh of kings, the flesh of captains, the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, and small and great."