Eleuthería — G1657

Definition

feminine noun

freedom (legitimate or licentious, chiefly moral or ceremonial)

1. liberty to do or to omit things having no relation to salvation
2. fancied liberty, i. e. license, the liberty to do as one pleases

Usually translated as

liberty

Origin

from G1658

• eleútheros (G1658)

Occurrences

Eleuthería occurs 11 times in 10 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Romans (1), 1 Corinthians (1), 2 Corinthians (1), Galatians (3), James (2), 1 Peter (1), 2 Peter (1)

• Romans 8:21 — Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty (ἐλευθερίαν) of the children of God.
• 1 Corinthians 10:29 — Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty (ἐλευθερία) judged of another man’s conscience?
• 2 Corinthians 3:17 — Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty (ἐλευθερία).
• Galatians 2:4 — And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty (ἐλευθερίαν) which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
• Galatians 5:1 — Stand fast therefore in the liberty (ἐλευθερία) wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
• Galatians 5:13 — For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty (ἐλευθερία); only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
• Galatians 5:13 — For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty (ἐλευθερίαν) for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
• James 1:25 — But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty (ἐλευθερίας), and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
• James 2:12 — So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty (ἐλευθερίας).
• 1 Peter 2:16 — As free, and not using your liberty (ἐλευθερίαν) for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
• 2 Peter 2:19 — While they promise them liberty (ἐλευθερίαν), they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.