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Liberty

Passages from across the Bible

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From Nave’s Topical Bible (1896), a historical reference index. The groupings are Nave’s; the verses are shown in the text used across this site.

Proclaimed in the year of jubilee

  • Leviticus 25:10 So you are to consecrate the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be your Jubilee, when each of you is to return to his property and to his clan.
  • Jeremiah 34:8 After King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim liberty, the word came to Jeremiah from the LORD
  • Jeremiah 34:15–17 Recently you repented and did what pleased Me; each of you proclaimed freedom for his neighbor. You made a covenant before Me in the house that bears My Name. But now you have changed your minds and profaned My name. Each of you has taken back the menservants and maidservants whom you had set at li…

Political

  • Judges 17:6 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
  • Judges 21:25 In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.
  • Acts 22:28 “I paid a high price for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born a citizen,” Paul replied.

See Jubilee

Figurative

  • Isaiah 61:2 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor and the day of our God’s vengeance, to comfort all who mourn,
  • Isaiah 63:4 For the day of vengeance was in My heart, and the year of My redemption had come.
  • Luke 4:19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
  • John 8:32–33 Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” “We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”
  • John 8:36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
  • Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
  • Ephesians 6:8 because you know that the Lord will reward each one for whatever good he does, whether he is slave or free.
  • Colossians 3:11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and is in all.

Word study: the Hebrew and Greek words behind “liberty” →

Scripture text: Berean Standard Bible.