'Free' in the Bible
If thou buy a Hebrew bondman, six years shall he serve; and in the seventh he shall go out free for nothing.
But if the bondman shall say distinctly, I love my master, my wife, and my children, I will not go free;
And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out free without money.
And if he knock out his bondman's tooth or his handmaid's tooth, he shall let him go free for his tooth.
And if a man lie with a woman for copulation, and she is a bondwoman betrothed to a husband, but not at all ransomed, nor hath freedom been given to her, there shall be a chastisement: they shall not be put to death, for she was not free.
And the priest shall adjure her, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone astray in uncleanness, in being with another instead of thy husband, be free from this bitter water that bringeth the curse.
Then shall the man be free from iniquity, but that woman shall bear her iniquity.
If thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, have been sold unto thee, he shall serve thee six years, and in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.
And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty;
Let it not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for double the worth of a hired servant hath he been to thee, in serving thee six years; and Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all that thou doest.
When a man hath newly taken a wife, he shall not go out with the army, neither shall any kind of business be imposed upon him; he shall be free for his house one year, and shall gladden his wife whom he hath taken.
And she said, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" And he awoke from his sleep, and said, "I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free." And he did not know that the LORD had left him.
And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that comes up? for to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who smites him, him will the king enrich with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.
And these were the singers, chief fathers of the Levites, who were in the chambers free from service; for they were employed day and night.
My soul is weary of my life: I will give free course to my complaint; I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.
Who hath sent out the wild ass free? and who hath loosed the bands of the onager,
Return, Jehovah, free my soul; save me for thy loving-kindness' sake.
The king sent and loosed him the ruler of peoples and let him go free.
{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} Free me, O Jehovah, from the evil man; preserve me from the violent man:
Is not this the fast which I have chosen: to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the thongs of the yoke, and to send forth free the crushed, and that ye break every yoke?
Jehovah said, Verily I will set thee free for thy good; verily I will cause the enemy to meet thee kindly in the time of evil and in the time of affliction.
that every man should let his bondman, and every man his bondmaid, the Hebrew and the Hebrewess, go free, that none should exact service of them, that is, of a Jew his brother.
And all the princes and all the people that had entered into the covenant obeyed, every man letting his bondman and every man his bondmaid go free, that none should exact service of them any more: they obeyed, and let them go.
But afterwards they turned, and caused the bondmen and the bondmaids whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for bondmen and for bondmaids.
At the end of seven years ye shall let go every man his brother, a Hebrew, who hath sold himself unto thee; when he hath served thee six years, thou shalt let him go free from thee. But your fathers hearkened not unto me, neither inclined their ear.
The thickness of the wall, which was for the side-chambers without, was five cubits, as also what was left free along the building of the side-chambers that pertained to the house.
And the entry of the side-chambers was toward what was left free, one entry toward the north, and one entry toward the south; and the width of the space left free was five cubits round about.
Peter says to him, From strangers. Jesus said to him, Then are the sons free.
and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.
They answered him, We are Abraham's seed, and have never been under bondage to any one; how sayest thou, Ye shall become free?
If therefore the Son shall set you free, ye shall be really free.
And the chiliarch answered, I, for a great sum, bought this citizenship. And Paul said, But I was also free born.
But shall not the act of favour be as the offence? For if by the offence of one the many have died, much rather has the grace of God, and the free gift in grace, which is by the one man Jesus Christ, abounded unto the many.
For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)
For when ye were bondmen of sin ye were free from righteousness.
so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.
that the creature itself also shall be set free from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.
Hast thou been called being a bondman, let it not concern thee; but and if thou canst become free, use it rather.
Art thou bound to a wife? seek not to be loosed; art thou free from a wife? do not seek a wife.
A wife is bound for whatever time her husband lives; but if the husband be fallen asleep, she is free to be married to whom she will, only in the Lord.
Am I not free? am I not an apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?
For being free from all, I have made myself bondman to all, that I might gain the most possible.
For also in the power of one Spirit we have all been baptised into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether bondmen or free, and have all been given to drink of one Spirit.
Thanks be to God for his unspeakable free gift.
but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.
Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage.
knowing that whatever good each shall do, this he shall receive of the Lord, whether bond or free.
if any one be free from all charge against him, husband of one wife, having believing children not accused of excess or unruly.
For the overseer must be free from all charge against him as God's steward; not headstrong, not passionate, not disorderly through wine, not a striker, not seeking gain by base means;
and might set free all those who through fear of death through the whole of their life were subject to bondage.
as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.
And it causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free and the bondmen, that they should give them a mark upon their right hand or upon their forehead;
that ye may eat flesh of kings, and flesh of chiliarchs, and flesh of strong men, and flesh of horses and of those that sit upon them, and flesh of all, both free and bond, and small and great.
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