Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the fruit you get leads to sanctification and its end, eternal life.
For he who was called in the Lord as a bondservant is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a bondservant of Christ.
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
So speak and so act as those who are to be judged under the law of liberty.
not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.
knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” They answered him, “We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?” Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever; the son remains forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
For we never came with words of flattery, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed—God is witness.
If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have been guilty of sin, but now they have no excuse for their sin.
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