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 in you through the Lord, that ye will be no otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whoever he may be.

And certain men who came down from Judea, taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

Also from your own selves will men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

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

Unawares

For of this sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts;

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will privately bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

For certain men have crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.

Liberty

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

Stand fast therefore in the liberty with which Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

Restore to me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.

And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.

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

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

As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.

While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for by whom a man is overcome, by the same is he brought into bondage.

Bring

Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:

But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; who have said to thy soul, Prostrate thyself, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.

For ye suffer, if a man bringeth you into bondage, if a man devoureth you, if a man taketh from you, if a man exalteth himself, if a man smiteth you on the face.

General references

But new wine must be put into new bottles, and both are preserved.

For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.