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, through my union with the Lord, am persuaded that you will learn to think with me. But the man who is disturbing your minds will have to bear his punishment, whoever he may be.

But certain persons came down from Judea, and began to teach the Brethren that, unless they were circumcised, in accordance with the custom enjoined by Moses, they could not be saved.

And from among yourselves, too, men will arise, who will teach perversions of truth, so as to draw away the disciples after them.

Men of this stamp are false apostles, treacherous workers, disguising themselves as Apostles of Christ!

Dear friends, do not trust every inspiration, but test each inspiration, to see whether it proceeds from God; because many false Prophets have gone out into the world.

Unawares

For among them are to be found those who creep into homes and captivate weak women--women who, loaded with sins, and slaves to all kinds of passions,

But there were false prophets also in the nation, just as there will be false teachers among you, men who will secretly introduce ruinous divisions, disowning even the Lord who bought them, and bringing speedy Ruin upon themselves.

For there have crept in among you certain godless people, whose sentence has long since been pronounced, and who make the mercy of God an excuse for profligacy, and disown our only lord and master, Jesus Christ.

Liberty

Before the coming of faith, we were kept under the guard of the Law, in bondage, awaiting the Faith that was destined to be revealed.

It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery.

So Jesus went on to say to those Jews who had believed him: "If you remain constant to my Message, you are truly my disciples;

And the 'Lord' is the Spirit, and, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Act as free men, yet not using your freedom as those do who make it a cloak for wickedness, but as Servants of God.

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to corrupt habits; for a man is the slave of anything to which he gives way.

Bring

And so is it with us; when we were under age, as it were, we were slaves to the puerile teaching of this world;

You tolerate a man even when he enslaves you, when he plunders you, when he gets you into his power, when he puts on airs of superiority, when he strikes you in the face!

General references

But new wine must be put into fresh skins.

For, if I rebuild the very things that I pulled down, I prove myself to have done wrong.