The OT is saturated with Sin as disobedience to God's laws that regulate actions of behavior.  This sense of sin was stressed so much that God's chosen went to extreme measures. For example the dietary laws. Of course Christ chastised the Pharisees for their disproportionate focus on the letter of the law.  But Christ came to uphold and fulfill the Law. We all know that Moses presented  moral propositions expressed in terms of restrictions on behavior. The Sermon on the Mount which is the Christian renewed interpretation of the ten Commandments also deal with the individual. Christ says, "Blessed is HE", not Blessed is society or the state. Christ stressed personal salvation and personal reform. 

Most of the lines above are talking about obtaining true freedom. That is freedom from the sins that bind the individual and make him a slave to sin. It is  freedom from the wrongful acts  that bind, that allows you to act in charity (love).