Bible Verses About Struggle for Freedom

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

Deliver me from the oppression of man: so will I keep thy precepts.

By reason of the multitude of oppressions they make the oppressed to cry: they cry out by reason of the arm of the mighty.

But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.

If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Their enemies also oppressed them, and they were brought into subjection under their hand.

Persecutions, afflictions, which came unto me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured: but out of them all the Lord delivered me.

And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.

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 am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

And when we cried unto the Lord God of our fathers, the Lord heard our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our oppression:

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.

Now therefore, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: and I have also seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee; for I am with thee, saith the Lord, to deliver thee.

(For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)

The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed, and that he should not die in the pit, nor that his bread should fail.

They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free?

Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.

Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:

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

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

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

For thou hast girded me with strength to battle: them that rose up against me hast thou subdued under me.

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

He made them also to be pitied of all those that carried them captives.

Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

But Paul said unto them, They have beaten us openly uncondemned, being Romans, and have cast us into prison; and now do they thrust us out privily? nay verily; but let them come themselves and fetch us out.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

The Lord shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them which hated me: for they were too strong for me.

For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.

He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.