Quotes About Freedom

You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

Are you committed to a wife? Do not seek to be released. Are you free of commitment? Do not look for a wife.

I want you to be free from concern. The unmarried man is concerned about the work of the Lord, how he can please the Lord.

I am saying this for your own good, not to restrict you, but in order to promote proper decorum and undivided devotion to the Lord.

But the man who is firmly established in his heart and under no constraint, with control over his will and resolve in his heart not to marry the virgin, he will do well.

A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, as long as he belongs to the Lord.

But not everyone has this knowledge. Some people are still so accustomed to idols that they eat such food as if it were sacrificed to an idol. And since their conscience is weak, it is defiled.

Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you yourselves not my workmanship in the Lord?

What then is my reward? That in preaching the gospel I may offer it free of charge, and so not use up my rights in preaching it.

Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.

Therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry.

Eat anything sold in the meat market without raising questions of conscience,

the other oneís conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone elseís conscience?

But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.

And even to this day when Moses is read, a veil covers their hearts.

But whenever anyone turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.

For we cannot do anything against the truth, but only for the truth.

Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

If I rebuild what I have already torn down, I prove myself to be a lawbreaker.

For through the law I died to the law so that I might live to God.