Galatians 5:1
Christ has set us free in freedom; stand fast therefore, and be not held again in a yoke of bondage.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2Behold, I, Paul, say to you, that if ye are circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Cross References
Proverbs 23:23Buy the truth, and sell it not; wisdom, and instruction, and intelligence.
Matthew 11:28Come to me, all ye who labour and are burdened, and *I* will give you rest.
Luke 5:38but new wine is to be put into new skins, and both are preserved.
Acts 15:10Now therefore why tempt ye God, by putting a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
Romans 6:18Now, having got your freedom from sin, ye have become bondmen to righteousness.
Romans 7:6but now we are clear from the law, having died in that in which we were held, so that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in oldness of 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 →