Independence

For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

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.

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

…that the creation itself will be set free from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!

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

This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush.