The word in Scripture

Liberty in the Bible

The word liberty appears 27 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Liberty is the freedom God gives from sin, guilt, and fear. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What liberty means in the Bible

Liberty is the freedom God gives from sin, guilt, and fear.

Where the word liberty appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word liberty appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.”Psalms 119:45

“Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Caesar.”Acts 26:32

“Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.”Romans 8:21

“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:”Galatians 2:4

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”Galatians 5:1

“Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty; with whom, if he come shortly, I will see you.”Hebrews 13:23

“But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.”James 1:25

“So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.”James 2:12