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15 Bible Verses About Freedom

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  • Exodus 20:2 opens the Ten Commandments with God’s rescue of Israel from “the house of slavery”.
  • Leviticus 25:10 proclaims liberty in the jubilee year with the Hebrew word deror, the word Isaiah 61:1 uses for “liberty to the captives”, and the Liberty Bell carries the verse.
  • In John 8:34-36 Jesus names the slavery as sin and says the Son is the one who sets free.
  • Galatians 5:1 warns against being justified by the law, and Galatians 5:13 against using freedom for the flesh.
  • Romans 8:21 places the freedom of the children of God in the future and includes the whole creation in it.

In the Bible, freedom is release from a master. For Israel the master was Egypt, “the house of slavery” (Exodus 20:2); in the New Testament it is sin (John 8:34-36; Romans 6:22) and the law taken as a way to be justified (Galatians 5:1). The Old Testament proclaims liberty in the jubilee year (Leviticus 25:10), Jesus reads Isaiah’s promise of “liberty to the captives” at Nazareth (Luke 4:18), and Paul writes that the creation itself will be set free (Romans…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

Strong’s Hebrew 1865, דְּרוֹר (deror): liberty; used in Leviticus 25:10, Isaiah 61:1 and Jeremiah 34. biblehub.com/hebrew/1865

National Park Service, Independence National Historical Park. The Liberty Bell. The inscription “Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof.” nps.gov

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