John 8:32

Jesus promises that knowing the truth, found in him, brings real freedom. The truth liberates from the bondage of sin.

Cross-references · 37

• Rom 8:2For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
• John 8:36So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
• John 17:17Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
• 1 Pet 2:16Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
• John 14:6Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
• Rom 6:22But 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.
• Rom 6:14–18For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
• Isa 61:1The 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,
• Ps 25:5Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.
• Prov 2:1–7My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
• Gal 5:1It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
• Jas 1:25But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom, and continues to do so—not being a forgetful hearer, but an effective doer—he will be blessed in what he does.
• 2 Cor 3:17–18Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
• Jas 2:12Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom.
• Jer 6:16This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
• John 16:13However, when the Spirit of truth comes, He will guide you into all truth. For He will not speak on His own, but He will speak what He hears, and He will declare to you what is to come.
• Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
• John 7:17If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
• Hos 6:3So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.
• Isa 30:21And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
• Ps 25:8–9Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He shows sinners the way.
• Rom 8:15For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
• Prov 1:23If you had repented at my rebuke, then surely I would have poured out my spirit on you; I would have made my words known to you.
• Mal 4:2“But for you who fear My name, the sun of righteousness will rise with healing in its wings, and you will go out and leap like calves from the stall.
• Prov 4:18The path of the righteous is like the first gleam of dawn, shining brighter and brighter until midday.
• 2 Tim 2:25–26He must gently reprove those who oppose him, in the hope that God may grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth.
• 2 Tim 3:7who are always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth.
• Isa 35:8And there will be a highway called the Way of Holiness. The unclean will not travel it—only those who walk in the Way—and fools will not stray onto it.
• Prov 1:29For they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the LORD.
• Isa 54:13Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their prosperity.
• Isa 2:3And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that we may walk in His paths.” For the law will go forth from Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.
• John 6:45It is written in the Prophets: ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from Him comes to Me—
• Ps 119:45And I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts.
• Matt 11:29Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me; for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
• Song 1:7–8Tell me, O one I love, where do you pasture your sheep? Where do you rest them at midday? Why should I be like a veiled woman beside the flocks of your companions?
• Jer 31:33–34“But this is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD. I will put My law in their minds and inscribe it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they will be My people.
• Matt 13:11–12He replied, “The knowledge of the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven has been given to you, but not to them.

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