Quotes about Freedom

But now, behold, I am freeing you today from the chains that were on your wrists. If it pleases you to come with me to Babylon, then come, and I will take care of you. But if it seems wrong to you to come with me to Babylon, go no farther. Look, the whole land is before you. Wherever it seems good and right to you, go there.”

But you, O Jacob My servant, do not be afraid, and do not be dismayed, O Israel. For I will surely save you out of a distant place, your descendants from the land of their captivity! Jacob will return to quiet and ease, with no one to make him afraid.

So Jehoiachin changed out of his prison clothes, and he dined regularly at the king’s table for the rest of his life.

To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,

Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.

So I brought them out of the land of Egypt and led them into the wilderness.

But if he gives a gift from his inheritance to one of his servants, it will belong to that servant until the year of freedom; then it will revert to the prince. His inheritance belongs only to his sons; it shall be theirs.

For I will now break their yoke from your neck and tear away your shackles.”

“Which of the two do you want me to release to you?” asked the governor. “Barabbas,” they replied.

Then Jesus declared, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

This man had been living in the tombs and could no longer be restrained, even with chains.

Though he was often bound with chains and shackles, he had broken the chains and shattered the shackles. Now there was no one with the strength to subdue him.