Galatians 5:1
Stand firm, therefore, in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and be not held fast again in the yoke of bondage.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
2Behold, I Paul say to you, that if you be circumcised, Christ will profit you nothing.
Cross References
Matthew 11:28Come to me, all you that are weary, and heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Luke 5:38But new wine must be put into new bottles, and both will be preserved.
Acts 15:10Now, therefore, why do you put God to the proof, by placing a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers, nor we ourselves, were able to bear?
Romans 6:18and being made free from sin, you have become the servants of righteousness.
Romans 7:6but now we are made free from the law, being dead to that by which we were bound, so that we may serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
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 →