Galatians 5:1
Stand firm therefore in the liberty in which Christ freed us, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2Behold, I Paul say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ will benefit you nothing.
Cross References
Proverbs 23:23Buy the truth, and do not sell it, [yea], wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Matthew 11:28Come to me, all ye who labor and have been burdened, and I will give you rest.
Luke 5:38But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved together.
Acts 15:10Now therefore why do ye challenge God, to place a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Romans 6:18And having been set free from sin, ye were made servile to righteousness
Romans 7:6But now we have been released from the law, having died to what we were held, so as for us to serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of a document.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 5:1
In this chapter the apostle comes to make application of his foregoing discourse. He begins it with a general caution, or exhortation ( ver. 1 ), which he afterwards enforces by several considerations, ver. 2-12 . He then presses them to serious practical godliness, which would be the best antidote against the snares of their false teachers; particularly, I. That they should not strive with one another, ver. 13-15 . II. That they would strive against sin, where he shows, 1. That there is in every one a struggle… Read the whole commentary →