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

As for me, I am fully trusting you in the Lord that you will be no otherwise minded; but he who is trying to unsettle you will have to bear his punishment, whoever he may be.

But some men came down from Judea and attempted to teach the brethren, saying, "Unless you are circumcised according to Moses' custom, you cannot be saved."

and that from among your own number, men will arise, perverting the truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

For such fellows are sham apostles of Christ.

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see whether they are of God; for many false prophets are gone out into the world.

Unawares

Turn away from all such. Some of them creep into private houses and lead captive silly women who, laden with sins,

But there were false prophets, too, among the people, just as among you also there will be false teachers. These will secretly bring in destructive sects, denying even the Master who bought them, and bringing swift ruin upon themselves.

For certain men have crept in stealthily??en predestined in ancient prophecies for this condemnation??mpious ones! They pervert the grace of our God into licentiousness, and deny Jesus Christ, our sole Master and Lord.

Liberty

Before the Faith came we were perpetual prisoners under the Law, in preparation for the destined faith about to be revealed.

stand firm then, and do not be again entangled in a yoke of bondage.

So Jesus spoke to the Jews that believed him, saying. "If you abide in my teaching, you are my true disciples;

(The Lord means the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord abides there is freedom.)

Live like free men; and yet do not make your freedom a cloak for misconduct, but be the slaves of God.

They promise them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of rottenness! (For indeed a man is the slave of anything which masters him.)

Bring

So we Jews also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the empty externalities of the world.

You put up with it, though they make slaves of you, live on you, seize your property, lord it over you, even strike you in the face, in the way of degradation!

General references

"But new wine must be put into fresh wine-skins

For if I am rebuilding the very things which I destroyed, I am proving myself a transgressor.