Galatians 5:1
For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not again be put under the control of a yoke of slavery.
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Proverbs 23:23Buy the truth, but do not sell it; 1 buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. 1
Matthew 11:28Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy burdened, and I will give you rest.
Luke 5:38But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.
Acts 15:10Now therefore why do you test God, that you should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Romans 6:18You have been made free from sin, and you have been made slaves of righteousness.
Romans 7:6But now we have been released from the law. We have died to that by which we were held. This is so that we might serve in newness of the Spirit, and not in 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 →