Bible Verses about โchristian libertyโ
The Bible contains 38 verses about christian liberty across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โWe know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.โ
โWhether therefore you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.โ
โNow accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.โ
โSo then each one of us will give account of himself to God.โ
โIt is good to not eat meat, drink wine, nor do anything by which your brother stumbles, is offended, or is made weak.โ
โOne man has faith to eat all things, but he who is weak eats only vegetables.โ
โDon't let him who eats despise him who doesn't eat. Don't let him who doesn't eat judge him who eats, for God has accepted him.โ
โI know, and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus, that nothing is unclean of itself; except that to him who considers anything to be unclean, to him it is unclean.โ
โTherefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.โ
โWho are you who judge another's servant? To his own lord he stands or falls. Yes, he will be made to stand, for God has power to make him stand.โ
โBut you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.โ
โFor it is written, "'As I live,' says the Lord, 'to me every knee will bow. Every tongue will confess to God.'"โ
โFor if we live, we live to the Lord. Or if we die, we die to the Lord. If therefore we live or die, we are the Lord's.โ
โfor the Kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.โ
โSo then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.โ
โBut he who looks into the perfect law of freedom, and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.โ
โOne man esteems one day as more important. Another esteems every day alike. Let each man be fully assured in his own mind.โ
โHe who observes the day, observes it to the Lord; and he who does not observe the day, to the Lord he does not observe it. He who eats, eats to the Lord, for he gives God thanks. He who doesn't eat, to the Lord he doesn't eat, and gives God thanks.โ
โYet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.โ
โBut he who doubts is condemned if he eats, because it isn't of faith; and whatever is not of faith is sin.โ
โFor to this end Christ died, rose, and lived again, that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living.โ
โDo you have faith? Have it to yourself before God. Happy is he who doesn't judge himself in that which he approves.โ
โThen don't let your good be slandered,โ
โ"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are expedient. "All things are lawful for me," but I will not be brought under the power of anything.โ
โFor none of us lives to himself, and none dies to himself.โ
โDon't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.โ
โFor he who serves Christ in these things is acceptable to God and approved by men.โ
โas free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.โ
โFor the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;โ
โbecause the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.โ
โLet no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,โ
โFor those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.โ
โFor you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.โ
โStand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.โ
โThose who are in the flesh can't please God.โ
โ"All things are lawful for me," but not all things are profitable. "All things are lawful for me," but not all things build up.โ
โpromising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.โ
โI will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.โ
