Quotes About Freedom

“Short time or long,” Paul replied, “I wish to God that not only you but all who hear me this day may become what I am, except for these chains.”

On their way out, they said to one another, “This man has done nothing worthy of death or imprisonment.”

And Agrippa said to Festus, “This man could have been released if he had not appealed to Caesar.”

So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and set it adrift.

Cutting away the anchors, they left them in the sea as they loosened the ropes that held the rudders. Then they hoisted the foresail to the wind and made for the beach.

The soldiers planned to kill the prisoners so none of them could swim to freedom.

When we arrived in Rome, Paul was permitted to stay by himself, with a soldier to guard him.

They examined me and wanted to release me, because there was no basis for a death sentence against me.

Boldly and freely he proclaimed the kingdom of God and taught about the Lord Jesus Christ.

Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

because the law brings wrath. And where there is no law, there is no transgression.

Certainly not! How can we who died to sin live in it any longer?

We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.

For anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires.

For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law, but under grace? Certainly not!

Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?

But thanks be to God that, though you once were slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were committed.

You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

Do you not know, brothers (for I am speaking to those who know the law), that the law has authority over a man only as long as he lives?

For instance, a married woman is bound by law to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage.