1 Peter 2:16

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? For if I were still pleasing men, I wouldn’t be a servant of Christ.

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it, to him it is sin.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

Yahweh says, “Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the old paths, ‘Where is the good way?’ and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

But he said, “On the contrary, blessed are those who hear the word of God, and keep it.”

For the law was given through Moses. Grace and truth were realized through Jesus Christ.

Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

Now, brothers, I entrust you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build up, and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

What then? Shall we sin, because we are not under law, but under grace? May it never be!

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.

Turn at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make known my words to you.

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint; but one who keeps the law is blessed.

Let your Kingdom come. Let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

and crying out with a loud voice, he said, “What have I to do with you, Jesus, you Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, don’t torment me.”

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity, that they may be without excuse.

“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are profitable. “All things are lawful for me,” but not all things build up.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Let’s consider how to provoke one another to love and good works,

You believe that God is one. You do well. The demons also believe, and shudder.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

Why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), “Let’s do evil, that good may come?” Those who say so are justly condemned.

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.

Following Paul and us, she cried out, “These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim to us a way of salvation!”

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

But 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.

But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage,

For 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.

You shall make the fiftieth year holy, and proclaim liberty throughout the land to all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee to you; and each of you shall return to his own property, and each of you shall return to his family.

I run in the path of your commandments, for you have set my heart free.

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not have had sin; but now they have no excuse for their sin.

Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance; for you serve the Lord Christ.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

So speak and so do, as men who are to be judged by a law of freedom.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,