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‘Now if a man has sexual relations with a woman who is a slave acquired for another man, but who has in no way been redeemed nor given her freedom, there shall be punishment; they shall not, however, be put to death, because she was not free.
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Exaltation of the Afflicted
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, Because the Lord anointed me To bring good news to the humble; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, To proclaim release to captives And freedom to prisoners;
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He gave orders to the centurion for Paul to be kept in custody and yet have some freedom, and not to prevent any of his friends from providing for his needs.
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that the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God.
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But take care that this freedom of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.
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Paul’s Use of Freedom
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Have I not seen Jesus our Lord? Are you not my work in the Lord?
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Now by “conscience” I do not mean your own, but the other person’s; for why is my freedom judged by another’s conscience?
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Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
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Yet it was a concern because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who had sneaked in to spy on our freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
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Follow the Spirit
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.
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For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity for the flesh, but serve one another through love.
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But one who has looked intently at the perfect law, the law of freedom, and has continued in it, not having become a forgetful hearer but an active doer, this person will be blessed in what he does.
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So speak, and so act, as those who are to be judged by the law of freedom.
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Act as free people, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bond-servants of God.
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promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what anyone is overcome, by this he is enslaved.