freedom in christ

¹Stand firm, and do not be willing to be again held by the yoke of servitude.

¹⁷Now the Spirit is Lord. And wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

³⁶Therefore, if the Son has set you free, then you will truly be free.

¹³For you, brothers, have been called to liberty. Only you must not make liberty into an occasion for the flesh, but instead, serve one another through the charity of the Spirit.

³²And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.”

¹Stand firm, and do not be willing to be again held by the yoke of servitude. ²Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if you have been circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you. ³For I again testify, about every man circumcising himself, that he is obligated to act according to the entire law. ⁴You are being emptied of Christ, you who are being justified by the law. You have fallen from grace. ⁵For in spirit, by faith, we await the hope of justice. ⁶For in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor uncircumcision prevails over anything, but only faith which works through charity.

¹Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh. ²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin and death. ³For though this was impossible under the law, because it was weakened by the flesh, God sent his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and because of sin, in order to condemn sin in the flesh, ⁴so that the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us. For we are not walking according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.

¹⁶in an open manner, and not as if cloaking malice with liberty, but like servants of God.

¹Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who are not walking according to the flesh. ²For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has freed me from the law of sin and death.

¹³For you, brothers, have been called to liberty. Only you must not make liberty into an occasion for the flesh, but instead, serve one another through the charity of the Spirit. ¹⁴For the entire law is fulfilled by one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

¹The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the meek, so as to heal the contrite of heart, to preach leniency to captives and release to the confined,

¹²All is lawful to me, but not all is expedient. All is lawful to me, but I will not be driven back by the authority of anyone.

²²Yet truly, having been freed now from sin, and having been made servants of God, you hold your fruit in sanctification, and truly its end is eternal life.

²⁰I live; yet now, it is not I, but truly Christ, who lives in me. And though I live now in the flesh, I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and who delivered himself for me.