"liberty, freedom, 1 Cor. 10:29; Gal. 2:4"
Definition and meaning
liberty, freedom, 1 Cor. 10:29; Gal. 2:4
In the original Greek the word is written: ἐλευθερία
Historical context
Paul wrote Romans from Corinth, one of the most important commercial cities in the empire. Rome had a Jewish population of around 50,000. The letter addresses real tensions between Jewish believers with centuries of Torah tradition and Gentile believers with no such background. Emperor Nero was on the throne. Within ten years he would execute both Paul and Peter.
The people who first heard this word were not reading a book — they were living through empires, oppression, exile, and covenant. Every word carried the weight of that reality. Understanding it changes how you read Scripture.
Scripture references
These are the most notable occurrences of eleutheria (G1657) across the King James Bible.
Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into 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.
But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed.
So speak ye, and so do, as they that shall be judged by the law of liberty.
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
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Common questions
Strong's G1657 (eleutheria) is a Greek word that means: liberty, freedom, 1 Cor. 10:29; Gal. 2:4 It appears 10 times in the King James Bible.
The word eleutheria (G1657) appears 10 times in the original Greek text.
Strong's G1657 is eleutheria, a Greek word defined as: liberty, freedom, 1 Cor. 10:29; Gal. 2:4. James Strong catalogued this in his 1890 concordance to help English readers study the original languages of the Bible.
eleutheria is a Greek word found in the New Testament.