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 do not sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Watch. Stand firm in the faith. Be courageous. Be strong.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

For now we live, since you stand firm in the Lord.

So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.

but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope.

Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.

let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you do not wake up, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come to you.

The liberty

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only do not use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.

But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

The Spirit of the LORD is on me; because he has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and an opening of the eyes to those who are bound;

"Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free."

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made you free from the law of sin and of death.

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord's free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ's bondservant.

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

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

Entangled

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Let no man therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,

The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place was not yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;

General references

Abraham said to him, "Beware that you do not bring my son there again.

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.