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Bondage Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

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Bondage Galatians 5:1

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.

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Bondage James 4:7

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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Bondage 1 John 1:9

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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Bondage Hebrews 13:8

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

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Bondage Romans 6:6, 7

We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin. / For anyone who has died has been freed from sin.

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Bondage James 1:14

But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.

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Bondage 1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

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Bondage in Persia Ezra 9:9

Though we are slaves, our God has not forsaken us in our bondage, but He has extended to us grace in the sight of the kings of Persia, giving us new life to rebuild the house of our God and repair its ruins, and giving us a wall of protection in Judah and Jerusalem.

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Bondage of Israelites in Egypt Exodus 1:14

and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

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Bondage of Israelites in Egypt Exodus 2:23

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God.

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Bondage of Israelites in Egypt Exodus 6:6

Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and with mighty acts of judgment.

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Christian Liberty is Freedom From: Bondage of Man 1 Corinthians 9:19

Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.

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God: Preserver: To the Israelites, in Bringing About Their Deliverance from Bondage Exodus 1:9–12

“Look,” he said to his people, “the Israelites have become too numerous and too powerful for us. / Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will increase even more; and if a war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.” / So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.

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God: Preserver: To the Israelites, in Bringing About Their Deliverance from Bondage Exodus 2:23–25

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God. / So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. / God saw the Israelites and took notice.

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God: Preserver: To the Israelites, in Bringing About Their Deliverance from Bondage Exodus 3:7–9

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings. / I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. / And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.

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Idleness and Sloth: Lead to Bondage Proverbs 12:24

The hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.

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Israel: Under the Judges: Seven Years of Bondage to the Midianites; Delivered by Gideon Judges 6:1

Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,

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Israel: Under the Judges: Seven Years of Bondage to the Midianites; Delivered by Gideon Judges 7:1

Early in the morning Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) and all the men with him camped beside the spring of Harod. And the camp of Midian was north of them in the valley near the hill of Moreh.

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Israel: Under the Judges: Seven Years of Bondage to the Midianites; Delivered by Gideon Judges 8:1–28

Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him violently. / But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer? / God has delivered Oreb and Zeeb, the two princes of Midian, into your hand. What was I able to do compared to you?” When he had said this, their anger against him subsided.

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Joy of Saints Is for Deliverance from Bondage Psalm 105:43

He brought forth His people with rejoicing, His chosen with shouts of joy.

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Joy of Saints Is for Deliverance from Bondage Jeremiah 31:10–13

Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock. / For the LORD has ransomed Jacob and redeemed him from the hand that had overpowered him. / They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion; they will be radiant over the bounty of the LORD—the grain, new wine, and oil, and the young of the flocks and herds. Their life will be like a well-watered garden, and never again will they languish.

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Prayer: Answered: from Babylonian Bondage Nehemiah 9:27

So You delivered them into the hands of enemies who oppressed them, and in their time of distress they cried out to You. From heaven You heard them, and in Your great compassion You gave them deliverers who saved them from the hands of their enemies.

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Prayer: Answered: from Bondage Exodus 2:23–25

After a long time, the king of Egypt died. The Israelites groaned and cried out under their burden of slavery, and their cry for deliverance from bondage ascended to God. / So God heard their groaning, and He remembered His covenant with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. / God saw the Israelites and took notice.

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Prayer: Answered: from Bondage Exodus 3:7–10

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings. / I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites. / And now the cry of the Israelites has reached Me, and I have seen how severely the Egyptians are oppressing them.

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Prayer: Answered: from Bondage Acts 7:34

I have indeed seen the oppression of My people in Egypt. I have heard their groaning and have come down to deliver them. Now come, I will send you back to Egypt.’

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Prisons: Bondage to Sin and Satan Isaiah 42:7

to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

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Prisons: Bondage to Sin and Satan Isaiah 49:9

to say to the prisoners, ‘Come out,’ and to those in darkness, ‘Show yourselves.’ They will feed along the pathways, and find pasture on every barren hill.

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Prisons: Bondage to Sin and Satan Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

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Redemption is From: The Bondage of the Law Galatians 4:5

to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.

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Servant: Bond: Degrading Influences of Bondage Exemplified by Cowardice Exodus 14:11, 12

They said to Moses, “Was it because there were no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? / Did we not say to you in Egypt, ‘Leave us alone so that we may serve the Egyptians’? For it would have been better for us to serve the Egyptians than to die in the wilderness.”

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Servant: Bond: Degrading Influences of Bondage Exemplified by Cowardice Exodus 16:3

“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”

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Servant: Bond: Degrading Influences of Bondage Exemplified by Cowardice Judges 5:16–18, 23

Why did you sit among the sheepfolds to hear the whistling for the flocks? In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision. / Gilead remained beyond the Jordan. Dan, why did you linger by the ships? Asher stayed at the coast and remained in his harbors. / Zebulun was a people who risked their lives; Naphtali, too, on the heights of the battlefield.

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Spiritual Bondage is to Sin John 8:34

Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

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Spiritual Bondage is to Sin Acts 8:23

For I see that you are poisoned by bitterness and captive to iniquity.”

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Spiritual Bondage is to Sin Romans 6:16

Do you not know that when you offer yourselves as obedient slaves, you are slaves to the one you obey, whether you are slaves to sin leading to death, or to obedience leading to righteousness?

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Spiritual Bondage is to Sin Romans 7:23

But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

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Spiritual Bondage is to Sin Galatians 4:3

So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.

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Spiritual Bondage is to Sin 2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

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Spiritual Bondage is to the Devil 1 Timothy 3:7

Furthermore, he must have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the snare of the devil.

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Spiritual Bondage is to the Devil 2 Timothy 2:26

Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.

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Spiritual Bondage is to the Fear of Death Hebrews 2:14, 15

Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil, / and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

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Spiritual Bondage: Christ Delivers From Luke 4:18, 21

“The Spirit of the Lord is on Me, because He has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed, / and He began by saying, “Today this Scripture is fulfilled in your hearing.”

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Spiritual Bondage: Christ Delivers From John 8:36

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

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Spiritual Bondage: Christ Delivers From Romans 7:24, 24

What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? / What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

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Spiritual Bondage: Christ Delivers From Ephesians 4:8

This is why it says: “When He ascended on high, He led captives away, and gave gifts to men.”

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Spiritual Bondage: Deliverance From, Illustrated Deuteronomy 4:20

Yet the LORD has taken you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be the people of His inheritance, as you are today.

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Spiritual Bondage: Deliverance From, Promised Isaiah 42:6, 7

“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations, / to open the eyes of the blind, to bring prisoners out of the dungeon and those sitting in darkness out from the prison house.

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Spiritual Bondage: Saints are Delivered From Romans 6:18, 22

You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness. / But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

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Spiritual Bondage: The Gospel, the Instrument of Deliverance From John 8:32

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

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Spiritual Bondage: The Gospel, the Instrument of Deliverance From Romans 8:2

For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.

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Spiritual Bondage: Typified: Israel in Egypt Exodus 1:13, 14

They worked the Israelites ruthlessly / and made their lives bitter with hard labor in brick and mortar, and with all kinds of work in the fields. Every service they imposed was harsh.

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The Ammonites of Rabbah Reduced to Hard Bondage 2 Samuel 12:31

David brought out the people who were there and put them to work with saws, iron picks, and axes, and he made them work at the brick kilns. He did the same to all the Ammonite cities. Then David and all his troops returned to Jerusalem.

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The Amorites: Brought Into Bondage by Solomon 1 Kings 9:20, 21

As for all the people who remained of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites (the people who were not Israelites)— / their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.

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The Fall of Man: Man in Consequence of in Bondage to Sin Romans 6:19

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

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The Fall of Man: Man in Consequence of in Bondage to Sin Romans 7:5, 23

For when we lived according to the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death. / But I see another law at work in my body, warring against the law of my mind and holding me captive to the law of sin that dwells within me.

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The Fall of Man: Man in Consequence of in Bondage to Sin Galatians 5:17

For the flesh craves what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are opposed to each other, so that you do not do what you want.

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The Fall of Man: Man in Consequence of in Bondage to Sin Titus 3:3

For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

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The Fall of Man: Man in Consequence of in Bondage to the Devil 2 Timothy 2:26

Then they will come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil, who has taken them captive to his will.

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The Fall of Man: Man in Consequence of in Bondage to the Devil Hebrews 2:14, 15

Now since the children have flesh and blood, He too shared in their humanity, so that by His death He might destroy him who holds the power of death, that is, the devil, / and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death.

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The Feast of the Passover: To Commemorate The: Deliverance of Israel from Bondage of Egypt Exodus 12:17, 42

So you are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must keep this day as a permanent statute for the generations to come. / Because the LORD kept a vigil that night to bring them out of the land of Egypt, this same night is to be a vigil to the LORD, to be observed by all the Israelites for the generations to come.

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The Feast of the Passover: To Commemorate The: Deliverance of Israel from Bondage of Egypt Exodus 13:9

It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.

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The Feast of the Passover: To Commemorate The: Deliverance of Israel from Bondage of Egypt Deuteronomy 16:3

You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.

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The Law of God: Saints: Freed from the Bondage of Romans 6:14

For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.

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The Law of God: Saints: Freed from the Bondage of Romans 7:4, 6

Therefore, my brothers, you also died to the law through the body of Christ, that you might belong to another, to Him who was raised from the dead, in order that we might bear fruit to God. / But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.

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The Law of God: Saints: Freed from the Bondage of Galatians 3:13

Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”

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