Liberty

Liberty

The counterpoint to authority is liberty. The primary word translated liberty is eleuqeria (also free and delivered):

Matthew 17:26 “Then the sons are free.”
John 8:32, 33, 36 And you shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free.
Romans 6:18, 20, 22 Having been set free from sin, … slaves of righteousness
Romans 7:33 If her husband dies, she is free from that law
Romans 8:2 …set me free from the law of sin and death
Romans 8:21 …creation will be delivered…into the liberty of the children of God.
1 Corinthians 7:21 – 22 If you [slave] can be made free, rather use it
1 Corinthians 9:1 Am I not an apostle? Am I not free?
1 Corinthians 9:19 Though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant
1 Corinthians 10:29 Why is my liberty judged by another’s conscience?
1 Corinthians 12:13, Galatians 3:28, Ephesians 6:8, Colossians 3:11, Revelation 6:15, 13:16, 19:18 …whether slave or free
2 Corinthians 3:17 Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Galatians 2:4 …to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ
Galatians 4:22, 23, 30 the child of the freewoman
Galatians 4:26, 31 But the Jerusalem above is free
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast in the liberty by which Christ has made us free.
Galatians 5:13 You have been called to liberty, only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh.
James 1:25 The perfect law of liberty.
James 2:12 …those who will be judged by the law of liberty
1 Peter 2:16 …as free, not using liberty as a cloak for vice
2 Peter 2:19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves

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