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 am confident in the Lord that you will accept no other view. But the one who is confusing you will pay the penalty, whoever he may be.

Now some men came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."

Even from among your own group men will arise, teaching perversions of the truth to draw the disciples away 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 some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

But false prophets arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. These false teachers will infiltrate your midst with destructive heresies, even to the point of denying the Master who bought them. As a result, they will bring swift destruction on themselves.

For certain men have secretly slipped in among you -- men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe -- ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Liberty

Now before faith came we were held in custody under the law, being kept as prisoners until the coming faith would be revealed.

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

Let me again experience the joy of your deliverance! Sustain me by giving me the desire to obey!

I will be secure, for I seek your precepts.

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

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

Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God's slaves.

Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

Bring

So also we, when we were minors, were enslaved under the basic forces of the world.

I will put it into the hand of your tormentors who said to you, 'Lie down, so we can walk over you.' You made your back like the ground, and like the street for those who walked over you."

For you put up with it if someone makes slaves of you, if someone exploits you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone behaves arrogantly toward you, if someone strikes you in the face.

General references

Instead new wine must be poured into new wineskins.

But if I build up again those things I once destroyed, I demonstrate that I am one who breaks God's law.