8 Bible Verses about Evil And Freedom
Most Relevant Verses
and threw him into the abyss, and shut [it] and sealed [it] above him, in order that he could not deceive the nations again until the thousand years are completed. After these [things] it is necessary [for] him to be released [for] a short time.
saying to the sixth angel, the one who had the trumpet, "Release the four angels who have been bound at the great river Euphrates!" And the four angels who had been prepared for the hour and day and month and year were released, in order that they should kill a third of humanity.
promising them freedom [although they] themselves are slaves of depravity. For to whatever someone succumbs, by this he is also enslaved.
"{Therefore} thus says Yahweh, 'You have not listened to me to proclaim release each one to his fellow countryman and each one to his neighbor. Look, I [am] going to proclaim to you a release,' {declares} Yahweh, 'to the sword, to the plague, and to the famine, and I will make you a terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
Just as no one can control the wind to restrain the wind, so also no one can control the day of his death. Just as no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not deliver the wicked.
Truly I say to you, you will never come out of there until you have paid back the last penny!