Bible Verses About Independence
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for independence, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 648 votes, led by 1 Peter 2:16. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Independence
1 Peter 2:16220 votes
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
Galatians 5:1151 votes
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
2 Corinthians 3:1771 votes
Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
Philippians 3:1239 votes
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.
Romans 13:1-733 votes
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.
1 Timothy 5:827 votes
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.
2 Thessalonians 3:1024 votes
For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat.
1 Corinthians 14:2021 votes
Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.
Romans 11:2215 votes
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Ephesians 4:1313 votes
Till we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:
Psalms 45:712 votes
Thou lovest righteousness, and hatest wickedness: therefore God, thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.
Romans 4:1-2511 votes
What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found?
2 Peter 1:2011 votes
Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.
What does the Bible say about independence?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 2:16 on the subject of independence. Across 648 votes, 13 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Galatians 5:1, 2 Corinthians 3:17, Philippians 3:12. This page lists all 13 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.