Galatians 5:1

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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

Truth, buy thou, but do not sell, wisdom, and correction, and understanding.

So, then, my beloved brethren, - become ye, steadfast, immovable, superabounding in the work of the Lord, at all times; knowing that, your toil, is not in vain in the Lord.

Be on the watch, stand firm in the faith, be men - be strong;

Stand therefore, - having girded your loins with truth, and put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Only, in a manner worthy of the glad-message of the Christ, be using your citizenship; in order that - whether coming and seeing you, or being absent, I may hear of the things which concern you - that ye are standing fast in one spirit, with one soul, joining for the combat along with the faith of the glad-message;

Because, now, we live, - if only, ye, stand fast in the Lord.

Hence, then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the instructions which ye were taught - whether through discourse, or through our letter.

But, Christ, as, a Son, over his house, - whose house are, we, - if, the freedom of speech and boast of the hope, throughout, firm,we hold fast.

Having then a great high-priest who hath passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast the confession;

Let us hold fast the confession of the hope without wavering, - for, faithful, is he that hath promised;

Beloved! though I was using all diligence to be writing unto you concerning our common salvation, yet have I had necessity to write at once unto you, exhorting you to be earnestly contending for, the faith, once for all delivered unto the saints.

nevertheless, what ye have, hold fast, till I shall have come.

Remember, therefore, how thou hast received, and didst hear, and keep it and repent. If then thou shall not watch, I will have come as a thief, and in nowise shalt thou get to know, during what sort of hour, I will have come upon thee.

The liberty

For, ye, on a footing of freedom, were called, brethren, - only, turn not your freedom into an occasion to the flesh, but, by means of your love, be serving one another;

But, this was because of the false brethren secretly introduced, - who, indeed, came in secretly to spy out our freedom, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: -

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

But, the Jerusalem above, is free, - the which is our mother;

Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation, And, with a willing spirit, wilt thou uphold me: -

The spirit of My Lord Yahweh, is upon me, - Because Yahweh Hath anointed me to tell good tidings to the oppressed, lath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, To proclaim To captives, liberty, To them who are bound, the opening of the prison;

Come unto me! all ye that toil and are burdened, and, I, will give you rest:

And ye shall know the truth, and, the truth, shall make you free.

For, sin, over you, shall not have lordship, for ye are not under law, but under favour.

Hence then, her husband being alive, an adulteress, shall she be called - if she become another man's, but, if the husband have died, she is free from the law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she become another man's.

For, the-law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus, hath set thee free from the law of sin and of death; -

For, he who in the Lord was called, being a bond-servant, is, a freed-man of the Lord: in like manner, he that was called being, a freeman, is Christ's bond-servant: -

And, the Lord, is, the Spirit: now, where the Spirit of one who is Lord is, there is freedom!

As free, yet, not as a cloak of vice, holding your freedom, but, as God's servants.

Promising, freedom to them, they themselves, being all the while, slaves of corruption, - for, by whom one hath been defeated, by the same, hath he become enslaved, -

Entangled

But, this was because of the false brethren secretly introduced, - who, indeed, came in secretly to spy out our freedom, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: -

Whereas, now, having acknowledged God, - or rather, having been acknowledged by God, how turn ye back again unto the weak and beggarly elementary principles, unto which, over again, ye are wishing, to come into servitude?

But they bind together heavy burdens, and lay upon men's shoulders, whereas, they, with their finger, are not willing to move them.

Now, therefore, why are ye proving God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which, neither our fathers, nor we, have been able to bear.

Let no one, therefore, be judging, you, - in eating and in drinking, or in respect of feast, or new moon, or sabbath, -

The Holy Spirit making this evident - that, not yet, hath been manifested, the way through the Holy place, so long as the first tent hath a standing.

General references

And Abraham said unto him, - Beware that thou do not take back my son thither!

But, new wine, into unused skins, must be poured.

If then, the Son, shall make you free, really free, shall ye be.