Jesus redeemed you. You are free to serve God and others through love.

“as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.” (1Pet 2:16)

“For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.” (Gal 5:13)

“Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” (2Cor 3:17)

“And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (Jn 8:32)

“Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.” (Jn 8:36)

“And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness.” (Rom 6:18)

“But now having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.” (Rom 6:22)

“For You were slain, and have redeemed us to God by Your blood out of every tribe and tongue and people and nation” (Rev 5:9)

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” (Gal 5:1)

“But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.” (Jm 1:25)

“But beware lest somehow this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to those who are weak.” (1Cor 8:9)

“Conscience, I say, not your own, but that of the other. For why is my liberty judged by another man’s conscience?” (1Cor 10:29)

“Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree)” (Gal 3:13)

“knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers” (1Pet 1:18)

“But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.” (Rom 6:17)

“But now we have been delivered from the law, having died to what we were held by, so that we should serve in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the letter.” (Rom 7:6)

“who delivered us from so great a death, and does deliver us; in whom we trust that He will still deliver us” (2Cor 1:10)

“He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love” (Col 1:13)

Reading: Jm 5; 1Pet 1-2; Matt 27