Galatians 5:1

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Stand

The liberty

Entangled

General references

Genesis 24:6

Luke 5:38

John 8:36

Bible References

Stand

Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.

So then, my beloved brethren, be firm, immovable, abounding always in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord.

Be vigilant; stand fast in the faith; quit yourselves like men; be strong.

Stand therefore, having girt about your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Only conduct yourselves worthily of the glad tidings of the Christ, in order that whether coming and seeing you, or absent, I may hear of what concerns you, that ye stand firm in one spirit, with one soul, labouring together in the same conflict with the faith of the glad tidings;

because now we live if ye stand firm in the Lord.

So then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the instructions which ye have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.

but Christ, as Son over his house, whose house are we, if indeed we hold fast the boldness and the boast of hope firm to the end.

Having therefore a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession.

Let us hold fast the confession of the hope unwavering, (for he is faithful who has promised;)

Beloved, using all diligence to write to you of our common salvation, I have been obliged to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith once delivered to the saints.

but what ye have hold fast till I shall come.

Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and keep it and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I shall come upon thee.

The liberty

For ye have been called to liberty, brethren; only do not turn liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

and it was on account of the false brethren brought in surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

But, faith having come, we are no longer under a tutor;

but the Jerusalem above is free, which is our mother.

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, and let a willing spirit sustain me.

The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to announce glad tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Come to me, all ye who labour and are burdened, and I will give you rest.

and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

For sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under law but under grace.

so then, the husband being alive, she shall be called an adulteress if she be to another man; but if the husband should die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, though she be to another man.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and of death.

For the bondman that is called in the Lord is the Lord's freedman; in like manner also the freeman being called is Christ's bondman.

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

as free, and not as having liberty as a cloak of malice, but as God's bondmen.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is subdued, by him is he also brought into slavery.

Entangled

and it was on account of the false brethren brought in surreptitiously, who came in surreptitiously to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

but now, knowing God, but rather being known by God, how do ye turn again to the weak and beggarly principles to which ye desire to be again anew in bondage?

but bind burdens heavy and hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of men, but will not move them with their finger.

Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

Let none therefore judge you in meat or in drink, or in matter of feast, or new moon, or sabbaths,

the Holy Spirit shewing this, that the way of the holy of holies has not yet been made manifest while as yet the first tabernacle has its standing;

General references

And Abraham said to him, Beware that thou bring not my son thither again.

but new wine is to be put into new skins, and both are preserved.

If therefore the Son shall set you free, ye shall be really free.