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Christian Liberty

30 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.

22 sections

Called the Glorious Liberty of the Children of God

Romans 8:21 that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Conferred by Christ

Galatians 4:3–5 So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world. …
Galatians 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.

Conferred by God

Colossians 1:13 He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son,

Conferred by the Holy Spirit

Romans 8:15 For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
2 Corinthians 3:17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Conferred: Through the Gospel

John 8:32 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Confirmed by Christ

John 8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

False Teachers: Abuse

Jude 4 For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed — ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

False Teachers: Promise, to Others

2 Peter 2:19 They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

False Teachers: Try to Destroy

Galatians 2:4 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.

Foretold

Isaiah 42:7 to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.
Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

Proclaimed by Christ

Isaiah 61:1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
Luke 4:18 “The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

Saints are Called To

Galatians 5:13 For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

Saints should Assert

1 Corinthians 10:29 the other one’s conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?

Saints should not Abuse

Galatians 5:13 For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
1 Peter 2:16 Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

Saints should not offend Others By

1 Corinthians 8:9 Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 10:29 the other one’s conscience, I mean, not your own. For why should my freedom be determined by someone else’s conscience?
1 Corinthians 10:32 Do not become a stumbling block, whether to Jews or Greeks or the church of God—

Saints should Praise God For

Psalm 116:16–17 Truly, O LORD, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have broken my bonds. …

Saints should Stand Fast In

Galatians 2:5 We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.
Galatians 5:1 It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.

Saints should Walk In

Psalm 119:45 And I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts.

The Gospel is the Law of

James 1:25 But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so — not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer — he will be blessed in what he does.
James 2:12 Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom.

The Service of Christ Is

1 Corinthians 7:22 For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord’s freedman. Conversely, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ’s slave.

The Wicked, Devoid of

John 8:34 Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.
Romans 6:20 For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.

Typified

Leviticus 25:10–17 So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan. …
Galatians 4:22–26 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. …
Galatians 4:31 Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

Related topics

Christian Christian Liberty is Freedom From Emancipation of all Jewish Servants at the Time of Jubilee The Feast of Jubilee

Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.