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Galatians 2:4

This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:

In Context

3Yet not even Titus, who was with me, was compelled to be circumcised, even though he was a Greek.

5We did not give in to them for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel would remain with you.

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Cross References

Psalms 119:45And I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts.

Luke 5:38Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins, and both are preserved.

Acts 15:1Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”

Acts 20:30Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.

2 Corinthians 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.

2 Corinthians 11:17In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.

Matthew Henry on Galatians 2:2-11

Paul's Journey to Jerusalem; Paul's Decision and Fidelity. ( a. d. 56.) 1 Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also. 2 And I went up by revelation, and communicated unto them that gospel which I preach among the Gentiles, but privately to them which were of reputation, lest by any means I should run, or had run, in vain. 3 But neither Titus, who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised: 4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought… Read the whole commentary →

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