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 think nothing different, but the one who is confusing you {will pay the penalty}, whoever he may be.

And some men came down from Judea [and] began teaching the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom [prescribed] by Moses, you cannot be saved."

And from among you yourselves men will arise, speaking {perversions of the truth} in order to draw away the disciples after them.

For such people [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.

Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits [to determine] if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Unawares

For from these are those who slip into houses and captivate foolish women loaded down with sins, led by various kinds of desires,

But there were also false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you also, who will bring in {destructive heresies}, even denying the Master who bought them, [thus] bringing on themselves swift destruction.

For certain men have slipped in stealthily, who were designated long ago for this condemnation, ungodly ones, who change the grace of our God into licentiousness and who deny our only Master and Lord Jesus Christ.

Liberty

But before faith came, we were detained under the law, imprisoned until the coming faith was revealed.

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and with a willing spirit sustain me.

And I will go about {freely}, for I have sought your precepts.

Then Jesus said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you continue in my word you are truly my disciples,

Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord [is, there is] freedom.

[Live] as free [persons], and not using your freedom as a covering for evil, but as slaves of God.

promising them freedom [although they] themselves are slaves of depravity. For to whatever someone succumbs, by this he is also enslaved.

Bring

So also we, when we were children, we were enslaved under the elemental spirits of the world.

And I will put it in the hand of your tormenters, who have said to {you}, 'Bow down that we may {pass} over [you]!' And you have {made} your back like the ground, and like the street for those who {pass} over [you]."

For you put up with [it] if someone enslaves you, if someone devours [you], if someone takes advantage of [you], if someone is presumptious [toward you], if someone strikes you in the face.

General references

But new wine must be put into new wineskins.

For if I build up again these [things] which I destroyed, I show myself [to be] a transgressor.