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

Luke 5:38

John 8:36

Bible References

Stand

Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, since ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

Be watchful, stand fast in the faith, behave like men, be strong:

Stand therefore having your loins girt about with truth, and putting on the breast-plate of righteousness:

Only behave worthy of the gospel of Christ, that whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of you, that ye stand firm in one Spirit, striving together as with one soul for the saith of the gospel;

for now we are revived, since you are stedfast in the Lord.

Therefore, brethren, be steady, and hold fast the traditions, which ye have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.

but Christ as a Son over his own house; whose house we are, if we maintain the free profession and exultation of hope firm unto the end.

Having therefore a great high-priest, that is passed into the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession:

Let us inflexibly retain the profession of our hope,

Beloved, having an earnest desire to write to you concerning the common salvation, I was under a necessity of writing to exhort you that ye would strive earnestly for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.

but what ye have hold fast till I come.

Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent: for if thou be not watchful, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come upon thee.

The liberty

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only abuse not this liberty for an occasion to indulge the flesh, but by mutual love serve one another.

and that because of the false brethren clandestinely introduced, who had crept in as spies upon our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

But now faith is come we are no longer under a pedagogue.

But the Jerusalem above is represented by the free-woman, which is the mother of us all.

Come unto me therefore all ye who are labouring and oppressed, and I will give you ease.

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

For sin shall have no power over you, inasmuch as ye are not under the law, but under grace.

Therefore while her husband is living, she shall be called an adulteress if she become another man's: but if her husband be dead, 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 me free from the law of sin and death.

For he that is called in the Lord being a slave, is the Lord's freed-man: and he likewise that is called being free is the servant of Christ.

now the Lord is that Spirit; and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

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

promising them liberty, while they themselves are the slaves of corruption: for by whom any one is vanquished, by him he is also enslaved.

Entangled

and that because of the false brethren clandestinely introduced, who had crept in as spies upon our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

But now that ye know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that ye turn again to the poor weak elements, to which ye desire again to be in bondage as before?

for they bind grievous and intolerable burthens, and impose them upon men; but they themselves will not put a finger to them:

Now therefore why do ye tempt God, in imposing a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Let no one therefore judge you on account of meat, or drink, or in respect of a feast, or a new-moon, or sabbaths;

The Holy Ghost shewing by this, that the way into the Holy of holies was not yet manifested, the first tabernacle being yet standing.

General references

but new wine must be put into new vessels, and then both are saved.

If therefore the Son make you free, ye shall be free indeed.