Freedom in Christ Scriptures
Many people are imprisoned in cells that are not visible with the human eye, but they are real, nonetheless. But Jesus Christ gave His life on the Cross to set us free from this prison. And with His help you can break free from these chains that have you bound to sin, and the wicked results of sin. Find your freedom in Christ with these Scriptures today.
- Romans 8:1-4, (AMP) Therefore there is now no condemnation [no guilty verdict, no punishment] for those who are in Christ Jesus [who believe in Him as personal Lord and Savior]. For the law of the Spirit of life [which is] in Christ Jesus [the law of our new being] has set you free from the law of sin and of death. For what the Law could not do [that is, overcome sin and remove its penalty, its power] being weakened by the flesh [man’s nature without the Holy Spirit], God did: He sent His own Son in the likeness of sinful man as an offering for sin. And He condemned sin in the flesh [subdued it and overcame it in the person of His own Son], so that the [righteous and just] requirement of the Law might be fulfilled in us who do not live our lives in the ways of the flesh [guided by worldliness and our sinful nature], but [live our lives] in the ways of the Spirit [guided by His power].
- John 8:36, (NASB) So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free.
- 2 Corinthians 3:17, (NLT) For the Lord is the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:10, (NKJV) and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, evenJesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.
- Romans 6:22, (AMP) But now since you have been set free from sin and have become [willing] slaves to God, you have your benefit, resulting in sanctification [being made holy and set apart for God’s purpose], and the outcome [of this] is eternal life.
- 1 Peter 2:15-16, (NLT) It is God’s will that your honorable lives should silence those ignorant people who make foolish accusations against you.For you are free, yet you are God’s slaves, so don’t use your freedom as an excuse to do evil.
- Galatians 5:1, (NKJV) Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
- Acts 13:39, (NLV) Everyone who puts his trust in Christ will be made right with God. You will be made free from those things the Law of Moses could not make you free from.
- Luke 4: 18-19, (TLB) “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; he has appointed me to preach Good News to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted and to announce that captives shall be released and the blind shall see, that the downtrodden shall be freed from their oppressors, and that God is ready to give blessings to all who come to him.”
- John 8:32, (GW) You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
- Psalm 79:9, (NKJV) Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; and deliver us, and provide atonement for our sins, for Your name’s sake!
- 2 Timothy 3: 10-11, (NIV) You, however, know all about my teaching, my way of life, my purpose, faith, patience, love, endurance, persecutions, sufferings—what kinds of things happened to me in Antioch, Iconium and Lystra, the persecutions I endured. Yet the Lord rescued me from all of them.
- Galatians 5: 13-14, (AMP) For you, my brothers, were called to freedom; only do not let your freedom becomean opportunity for the sinful nature (worldliness, selfishness), but through love serve and seek the best for one another. For the whole Law [concerning human relationships] is fulfilled in one precept, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself [that is, you shall have an unselfish concern for others and do things for their benefit].”
- Romans 8:15, (NKJV) For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by whom we cry out, “Abba, ”
- Ephesians 3:12, (NLT) Because of Christ and our faith in him, we can now come boldly and confidently into God’s presence.
- Psalm 119:45, (TPT) I will walk with you in complete freedom, for I seek to follow your every command.
- James 1:25, (NKJV) But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it,and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.
- Hebrews 2:14-15, (AMP) Therefore, since [these His] children share in flesh and blood [the physical nature of mankind], He Himself in a similar manner also shared in the same [physical nature, but without sin], so that through [experiencing] death He might make powerless (ineffective, impotent) him who had the power of death—that is, the devil— and [that He] might free all those who through [the haunting] fear of death were held in slavery throughout their lives.
- 1 Corinthians 7:22, (TLV) For the one who was called in the Lord as a slave is the Lord’s freedman. Likewise the one who was called while free is Messiah’s slave.
- Colossians 1:13-14, (NKJV) He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed usinto the kingdom of the Son of His love, in whom we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins.
- Revelation 1:5, (AMP) And from Jesus Christ, the faithful and trustworthy Witness, the Firstborn of the dead, and the Ruler of the kings of the earth. To Him who [always] loves us and who [has once for all] freed us [or washed us] from our sins by His own blood (His sacrificial death)—