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

I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will not be of another mind; but he that troubles you shall bear his sin, whoever he is.

AND certain persons having come down from Judea taught the brothers, If you are not circumcised according to the custom of Moses you cannot be saved.

and of yourselves men will arise speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

For such false apostles, deceitful laborers, transform themselves into apostles of Christ.

BELOVED, believe not every spirit, but prove the spirits whether they are of God; for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Unawares

Of these are those who go into the houses and take captive foolish women loaded with sins, and led by various desires,

But there were also false prophets among the people, as there shall also be false teachers among you, who shall bring in by stealth destructive heresies, even denying the master that bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction;

For some men have come in by deception, who were of old appointed to this judgment, impious, changing the grace of our God into lewdness, and denying our only master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Liberty

But before the faith came, we were kept shut up under the law for the faith to be revealed.

STAND firm in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again subject to a yoke of servitude.

Then Jesus said to the Jews who believed on him, If you continue in my word, you are my disciples indeed;

And the Lord is the Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty.

as free, and not using freedom for a cloak of vice, but as servants of God.

promising them liberty, when they themselves are servants of corruption; for by whatever a man is overcome, to this is he made a servant.

Bring

So also we, when we were children, were in servitude under the rudiments of the world;

for you endure it if any one reduces you to servitude, if any one devours you, if any one takes from you, if any one exalts himself against you, if any one beats you in the face.

General references

But new wine must be put into new bottles.

For if I build up again what I have destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.