Galatians 2:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

Because

1 John 4:1

Unawares

2 Timothy 3:6

2 Peter 2:1

Jude 1:4

Liberty

Bring

Galatians 4:3

Isaiah 51:23

2 Corinthians 11:20

General references

Luke 5:38

Galatians 2:18

Bible References

Because

I have confidence in you in the Lord that you will adopt no other view; but the one who is disturbing you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

Some men came down from Judea and began teaching the brethren, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

and from among your own selves men will arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Unawares

For among them are those who

enter into households and captivate

weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing swift destruction upon themselves.

For certain persons have crept in unnoticed, those who were long beforehand

marked out for this condemnation, ungodly persons who turn the grace of our God into licentiousness and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Liberty

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, being shut up to the faith which was later to be revealed.

It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

Restore to me the joy of Your salvation
And sustain me with a willing spirit.

And I will walk at liberty,
For I seek Your precepts.

So Jesus was saying to those Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, then you are truly disciples of Mine;

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Act as free men, and do not use your freedom as a covering for evil, but use it as bondslaves of God.

promising them freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by what a man is overcome, by this he is enslaved.

Bring

So also we, while we were children, were held in bondage under the

elemental things of the world.

“I will put it into the hand of your tormentors,
Who have said to you, ‘Lie down that we may walk over you.’
You have even made your back like the ground
And like the street for those who walk over it.”

For you tolerate it if anyone enslaves you, anyone devours you, anyone takes advantage of you, anyone exalts himself, anyone hits you in the face.

General references

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

For if I rebuild what I have once destroyed, I prove myself to be a transgressor.