John 8:36
If therefore the Son should make you free, ye will truly be free.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
In Context
35And the bondman does not remain in the house into the age. The Son remains into the age.
37I know that ye are Abraham's seed, yet ye seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.
Cross References
Psalms 19:13Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous [sins]. Let them not have dominion over me. Then I shall be upright, and I shall be clear from great transgression.
Psalms 119:133Establish my footsteps in thy word, and let not any iniquity have dominion over me.
Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of lord LORD is upon me, because LORD has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind (LXX/NT), and
Luke 4:18The Spirit of Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach good-news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to sent forth in deliv
Romans 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus freed me from the law of sin and of death.
Galatians 5:1Stand firm therefore in the liberty in which Christ freed us, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.
Matthew Henry on John 8:32-38
Christ's Discourse with the Pharisees. 31 Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. 35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son… Read the whole commentary →