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 as to you in the Lord, that ye will have no other mind; and he that is troubling you shall bear the guilt of it, whosoever he may be.

And certain persons, having come down from Judaea, taught the brethren, If ye shall not have been circumcised according to the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits, if they are of God; because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Unawares

For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,

But there were false prophets also among the people, as there shall be also among you false teachers, who shall bring in by the bye destructive heresies, and deny the master that bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction;

For certain men have got in unnoticed, they who of old were marked out beforehand to this sentence, ungodly persons, turning the grace of our God into dissoluteness, and denying our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.

Liberty

But before faith came, we were guarded under law, shut up to faith which was about to be revealed.

Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage.

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and let a willing spirit sustain me.

And I will walk at liberty, for I have sought thy precepts;

Jesus therefore said to the Jews who believed him, If ye abide in my word, ye are truly my disciples;

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

as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.

Bring

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the principles of the world;

and I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; who have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street to them that went over.

For ye bear if any one bring you into bondage, if any one devour you, if any one get your money, if any one exalt himself, if any one beat you on the face.

General references

but new wine is to be put into new skins, and both are preserved.

For if the things I have thrown down, these I build again, I constitute myself a transgressor.