Bible Verses About Independence

Now it came to pass in the days of Ahasuerus, (this is Ahasuerus which reigned, from India even unto Ethiopia, over an hundred and seven and twenty provinces:)

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

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

Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

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

Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.

But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

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