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

By our union with the Lord I have confidence in you that you will take no other view of the matter. The man who is unsettling you will certainly pay the penalty for it, no matter who it turns out to be.

Some people came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised in accordance with the custom that Moses handed down, you cannot be saved."

Even from your own number men will appear who will try, by speaking perversions of truth, to draw away the disciples after them.

For such men are sham apostles, dishonest workmen, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

Dearly beloved, stop believing every so-called spiritual utterance, but keep testing them to see whether they come from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Unawares

For some of them practice going into people's houses and capturing weak and silly women who are overwhelmed with the weight of their sins, who are easily led about by all sorts of evil impulses,

Now there were false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you too, who will insidiously introduce destructive heresies and deny the Master who has bought them, thus bringing on themselves swift destruction.

For certain persons have sneaked in -- their doom was written down long ago -- godless persons, who turn the favor of our God into an excuse for licentiousness, and disown our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Liberty

But before this faith came, we were kept locked up under the law, in preparation for the faith which was to be unveiled.

This is the freedom with which Christ has made us free. So keep on standing in it, and stop letting your necks be fastened in the yoke of slavery again.

So Jesus said to the Jews who believed in Him, "If you live in accordance with what I teach, you are really my disciples,

Now the Lord means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for doing evil, but live like slaves of God.

promising them freedom, though they are slaves of destruction themselves; for a man is the slave of anything that conquers him.

Bring

So when we were spiritually under age, we were slaves to the world's crude notions,

For you listen to a man, if he makes you his slave, or spends your money for his living, or cheats you, or puts on airs, or slaps you in the face.

General references

But fresh wine must be put into new bottles.

For if I try to build again what I tore down, I really prove myself to be a wrongdoer.