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 toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved."

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Unawares

For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Liberty

But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

Jesus therefore said to those Judeans who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.

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

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

Bring

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, 'Bow down, that we may walk over you;' and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who walk over."

For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

General references

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a law-breaker.