Galatians 5:1
Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.
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In Context
2See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.
Cross References
Proverbs 23:23Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.
Matthew 11:28Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest.
Luke 5:38But new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.
Acts 15:10Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?
Romans 6:18And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
Romans 7:6But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way 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 →