100 Bible Verses about Release

John 19:10 ESV / 795 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So Pilate said to him, “You will not speak to me? Do you not know that I have authority to release you and authority to crucify you?”

Deuteronomy 15:9 ESV / 795 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin.

Matthew 27:15 ESV / 794 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now at the feast the governor was accustomed to release for the crowd any one prisoner whom they wanted.

Deuteronomy 31:10 ESV / 790 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Moses commanded them, “At the end of every seven years, at the set time in the year of release, at the Feast of Booths,

Deuteronomy 15:1 ESV / 716 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 670 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Matthew 27:21 ESV / 625 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The governor again said to them, “Which of the two do you want me to release for you?” And they said, “Barabbas.”

Esther 2:18 ESV / 625 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the king gave a great feast for all his officials and servants; it was Esther's feast. He also granted a remission of taxes to the provinces and gave gifts with royal generosity.

Deuteronomy 15:2 ESV / 612 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord's release has been proclaimed.

Luke 23:20 ESV / 610 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Pilate addressed them once more, desiring to release Jesus,

Luke 23:16 ESV / 609 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I will therefore punish and release him.”

John 19:12 ESV / 608 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

From then on Pilate sought to release him, but the Jews cried out, “If you release this man, you are not Caesar's friend. Everyone who makes himself a king opposes Caesar.”

John 18:39 ESV / 608 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you have a custom that I should release one man for you at the Passover. So do you want me to release to you the King of the Jews?”

Mark 15:9 ESV / 606 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he answered them, saying, “Do you want me to release for you the King of the Jews?”

Deuteronomy 15:3 ESV / 593 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Of a foreigner you may exact it, but whatever of yours is with your brother your hand shall release.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 551 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Matthew 27:17 ESV / 524 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, “Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?”

John 3:16 ESV / 518 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Mark 15:11 ESV / 494 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the chief priests stirred up the crowd to have him release for them Barabbas instead.

Luke 23:18 ESV / 493 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But they all cried out together, “Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas”—

2 Corinthians 5:17 ESV / 491 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.

Luke 23:17 ESV / 490 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 8:36 ESV / 486 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Deuteronomy 15:1-2 ESV / 475 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“At the end of every seven years you shall grant a release. And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release what he has lent to his neighbor. He shall not exact it of his neighbor, his brother, because the Lord's release has been proclaimed.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 460 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 453 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

1 Corinthians 3:16 ESV / 448 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's Spirit dwells in you?

Luke 4:18 ESV / 421 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 414 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 375 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Nehemiah 10:31 ESV / 375 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt.

Exodus 23:10-11 ESV / 370 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For six years you shall sow your land and gather in its yield, but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the beasts of the field may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

Acts 3:19 ESV / 362 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out,

Psalm 51:10 ESV / 362 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

1 John 3:19-21 ESV / 354 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

By this we shall know that we are of the truth and reassure our heart before him; for whenever our heart condemns us, God is greater than our heart, and he knows everything. Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us, we have confidence before God;

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 354 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

1 Corinthians 5:8 ESV / 348 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let us therefore celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 341 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Jeremiah 29:11 ESV / 334 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.

1 Corinthians 2:1-16 ESV / 305 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God. ...

1 Timothy 2:1-15 ESV / 303 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

First of all, then, I urge that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be made for all people, for kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way. This is good, and it is pleasing in the sight of God our Savior, who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, ...

Romans 8:28 ESV / 302 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.

1 Chronicles 2:1-55 ESV / 302 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Zebulun, Dan, Joseph, Benjamin, Naphtali, Gad, and Asher. The sons of Judah: Er, Onan and Shelah; these three Bath-shua the Canaanite bore to him. Now Er, Judah's firstborn, was evil in the sight of the Lord, and he put him to death. His daughter-in-law Tamar also bore him Perez and Zerah. Judah had five sons in all. The sons of Perez: Hezron and Hamul. ...

Isaiah 58:6 ESV / 286 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Is not this the fast that I choose: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the straps of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break every yoke?

John 3:2 ESV / 278 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”

Philippians 4:6-7 ESV / 274 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 263 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

Proverbs 3:5 ESV / 261 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.

Hebrews 2:14-15 ESV / 258 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Since therefore the children share in flesh and blood, he himself likewise partook of the same things, that through death he might destroy the one who has the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver all those who through fear of death were subject to lifelong slavery.

Romans 8:2 ESV / 255 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.

Deuteronomy 5:15 ESV / 249 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the Lord your God brought you out from there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. Therefore the Lord your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.

Exodus 13:3-10 ESV / 248 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Moses said to the people, “Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, for by a strong hand the Lord brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten. Today, in the month of Abib, you are going out. And when the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall keep this service in this month. Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory. ...

John 8:32 ESV / 244 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

Colossians 1:2 ESV / 243 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 241 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 232 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Psalm 103:2 ESV / 231 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits,

Matthew 24:2 ESV / 229 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.”

1 Peter 5:7 ESV / 222 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.

Isaiah 43:18 ESV / 222 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.

John 14:6 ESV / 220 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Hebrews 4:2 ESV / 216 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For good news came to us just as to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them, because they were not united by faith with those who listened.

1 Timothy 6:10 ESV / 209 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 205 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Ephesians 4:31-32 ESV / 203 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.

John 8:2 ESV / 202 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.

Ephesians 1:7 ESV / 199 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace,

Luke 23:34 ESV / 199 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” And they cast lots to divide his garments.

Philippians 4:19 ESV / 197 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Galatians 6:2 ESV / 197 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

1 Peter 2:1-25 ESV / 196 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you have tasted that the Lord is good. As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ. ...

2 Corinthians 9:8 ESV / 195 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

Proverbs 4:25-27 ESV / 192 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil.

2 Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 191 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

Deuteronomy 31:2-3 ESV / 185 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he said to them, “I am 120 years old today. I am no longer able to go out and come in. The Lord has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’ The Lord your God himself will go over before you. He will destroy these nations before you, so that you shall dispossess them, and Joshua will go over at your head, as the Lord has spoken.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 184 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 8:32 ESV / 184 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 183 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

1 John 1:8 ESV / 182 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

Ephesians 4:28 ESV / 182 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 174 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

Psalm 55:22 ESV / 172 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Cast your burden on the Lord, and he will sustain you; he will never permit the righteous to be moved.

1 Peter 2:2 ESV / 127 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—

Isaiah 61:1 ESV / 124 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;

Mark 15:6 ESV / 123 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now at the feast he used to release for them one prisoner for whom they asked.

Isaiah 40:31 ESV / 111 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint.

Luke 15:7 ESV / 106 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Just so, I tell you, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who need no repentance.

1 Peter 1:1-25 ESV / 105 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the Dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia, according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood: May grace and peace be multiplied to you. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you, who by God's power are being guarded through faith for a salvation ready to be revealed in the last time. ...

Romans 8:1 ESV / 104 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Romans 3:23 ESV / 89 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Matthew 16:19 ESV / 84 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.”

Genesis 43:14 ESV / 84 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

May God Almighty grant you mercy before the man, and may he send back your other brother and Benjamin. And as for me, if I am bereaved of my children, I am bereaved.”

Matthew 11:28-30 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”

Deuteronomy 31:6 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.”

John 14:27 ESV / 75 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.

James 1:2-4 ESV / 59 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 58 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Jeremiah 31:9 ESV / 53 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

With weeping they shall come, and with pleas for mercy I will lead them back, I will make them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path in which they shall not stumble, for I am a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Isaiah 30:19-21 ESV / 53 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For a people shall dwell in Zion, in Jerusalem; you shall weep no more. He will surely be gracious to you at the sound of your cry. As soon as he hears it, he answers you. And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, yet your Teacher will not hide himself anymore, but your eyes shall see your Teacher. And your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, “This is the way, walk in it,” when you turn to the right or when you turn to the left.

Colossians 3:16 ESV / 50 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.