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 trust toward you in God, that ye will be none otherwise minded. He that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whatsoever he be.

Then came certain from Jewry and taught the brethren, "Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses ye cannot be saved."

Moreover, of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things, to draw disciples after them.

For these false apostles are deceitful workers, and fashion themselves like unto the apostles of Christ.

Ye beloved, believe not every spirit: but prove the spirits whether they be of God, or not: for many false prophets are gone out in to the world.

Unawares

For of this sort are they which enter into houses, and bring into bondage women laden with sin, which women are led of divers lusts,

There were false prophets among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you: which privily shall bring in damnable sects, even denying the Lord that hath bought them, and bring upon themselves swift damnation.

For there are certain craftily crept in, of which it was written aforetime unto such judgement. They are ungodly, and turn the grace of our Lord God unto wantonness; And deny God the only Lord, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Liberty

Before that faith came, we were kept and shut up under the law, unto the faith which should afterward be declared.

Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and wrap not yourselves again in the yoke of bondage.

O give me the comfort of thy help again, and establish me with thy free spirit.

And I will walk at liberty, for I seek thy commandments.

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, "If ye continue in my words, then are ye my very disciples:

The Lord no doubt is a spirit. And where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

as free, and not as having the liberty for a cloak of maliciousness: but even as the servants of God.

They promise them liberty, and are themselves the bondservants of corruption. For of whomsoever a man is overcome, unto the same is he in bondage.

Bring

Even so we, as long as we were children, were in bondage under the ordinances of the world:

And will put it in their hand that trouble thee: which have spoken to thy soul, "Stoop down, that we may go over thee: make thy body even with the ground, and as the street to go upon."

For ye suffer even if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour, if a man take, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

General references

But new wine must be poured into new vessels, and both are preserved.

For if I build again that which I destroyed, then make I myself a trespasser.