TRUE FREEDOM

 Ps. 31:4 - “Free me from the trap that is set for me, for you are my refuge.”

 Ps. 119:32 - “I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free.”

 Ps. 129:4 - “But the LORD is righteous; he has cut me free from the cords of the wicked.”

 Prov. 6:2-3 - “...if you have been trapped by what you said, ensnared by the words of your mouth, then do this, my son, to free yourself, since you have fallen into your neighbor's hands: Go and humble yourself; press your plea with your neighbor!”

 Prov. 11:21 - “Be sure of this: The wicked will not go unpunished, but those who are righteous will go free.”

 Prov. 19:5 - “A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who pours out lies will not go free.”

 Jn 8:31-32 - “To the Jews who had believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

 Jn 8:36 - “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.”

 Rom. 6:17-22 - “But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. I put this in human terms because you are weak in your natural selves. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to ever-increasing wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.  When you were slaves to sin, you were free from the control of righteousness.  What benefit did you reap at that time from the things you are now ashamed of? Those things result in death!  But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.”

 Rom. 8:1-4 - “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death.  For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the sinful nature, God did by sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful man to be a sin offering. And so he condemned sin in sinful man, in order that the righteous requirements of the law might be fully met in us, who do not live according to the sinful nature but according to the Spirit.”

 Gal. 5:1 - “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.”

 Gal. 5:13 - “You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.”

 Col. 1:22-23a - “But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation--23  if you continue in your faith, established and firm, not moved from the hope held out in the gospel.”

 Heb. 2:14-15 - “Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death--that is, the devil--and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.”

 Heb. 9:15 - “For this reason Christ is the mediator of a new covenant, that those who are called may receive the promised eternal inheritance--now that he has died as a ransom to set them free from the sins committed under the first covenant.”

 I Pet. 2:16 - “Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.”