Bible on Liberation

And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?

But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise.

So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

And that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.

And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,

And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:

Wherefore lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness, and receive with meekness the engrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.

I have not written unto you because ye know not the truth, but because ye know it, and that no lie is of the truth.

For the truth’s sake, which dwelleth in us, and shall be with us for ever.

He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints.