Gal 5:1, Heb 10:39, 11:9, 13-16, 2Pe 2:20-22 | ESV | STEP | For freedom Christ has set us free ; stand firm therefore , and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery .

Galatians 5:1

Christ Has Set Us Free

1 For ^afreedom Christ has ^bset us free; ^cstand firm therefore, and do not submit again to ^da yoke of ^eslavery.

Hebrews 10:39

39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.

Hebrews 11:9

9 By faith he went to live in ^fthe land of promise, as in a foreign land, ^gliving in tents ^hwith Isaac and Jacob, heirs with him of the same promise.

Hebrews 11:13-16

13 These all died in faith, ⁱnot having received the things promised, but ^jhaving seen them and greeted them from afar, and ^khaving acknowledged that they were ^lstrangers and exiles on the earth. 14 For people who speak thus make it clear that they are seeking a homeland. 15 If they had been thinking of that land from which they had gone out, ^mthey would have had opportunity to return. 16 But as it is, they desire a better country, that is, a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed ⁿto be called their God, for ^ohe has prepared for them a city.

2 Peter 2:20-22

20 For if, ^pafter they have escaped the defilements of the world ^qthrough the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, ^rthe last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For ^sit would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than after knowing it to turn back from ^tthe holy commandment delivered to them. 22 What the true proverb says has happened to them: “The ^udog returns to its own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire.”