Galatians 5:1
Stand fast, and be not held again under the yoke of bondage.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2Behold, I Paul tell you, that if you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Cross References
Proverbs 23:23Buy truth, and do not sell wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Matthew 11:28Come to me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh you.
Luke 5:38But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
Acts 15:10Now therefore, why tempt you God to put a yoke upon the necks of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
Romans 6:18Being then freed from sin, we have been made servants of justice.
Romans 7:6But now we are loosed from the law of death, wherein we were detained; so that we should 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 →