Galatians 5:1
In the freedom with which Christ has set us free, stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
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Proverbs 23:23Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
Matthew 11:28Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Luke 5:38Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins, and both are preserved.
Acts 15:10Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?
Romans 6:18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
Romans 7:6But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
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 →