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

2 Corinthians 11:20

General references

Luke 5:38

Galatians 2:18

Bible References

Because

I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be no otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear condign punishment whosoever he be.

AND certain persons coming down from Judea taught the brethren, That if ye are not circumcised according to the ordinances of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

Yea, from among yourselves shall men arise, speaking perverting doctrines, to draw away disciples after them.

For such are fake apostles, deceitful labourers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ.

BELOVED, believe not every pretender to inspiration, but bring these spirits to the trial whether they are of God; because many false prophets are gone forth into the world.

Unawares

For such are they who insinuate themselves into houses, and captivate weak women laden with accumulated sins, and actuated by a variety of passions,

BUT there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers also among you, who wickedly introduce damnable heresies, and deny the sovereign Lord who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

For certain men have craftily introduced themselves, who were from of old proscribed for this condemnation, ungodly men, changing the grace of God into impurity, and denying our only sovereign God and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Liberty

But before the faith came, we were in ward under the law, shut up together for the faith that should be revealed.

STAND fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again held under a yoke of bondage.

Then said Jesus to those Jews who believed on him, If ye abide in my word, assuredly ye are my disciples;

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

as free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for wicked practices; but as being servants of God.

Preaching liberty to them, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for by whatever a man is overcome, by that also he is enslaved.

Bring

So we also, when we were infants, were in bondage under the first elementary principles of the world:

For ye bear if a man enslave you, if a man eat you up, if a man receive from you, if a man is insolent, if a man smite you on the face.

General references

But new wine should be put into new bottles; then both are preserved.

For if I build up again the very same things which I have pulled down, I stamp myself a transgressor.