Galatians 5:1
Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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In Context
2Behold, I, Paul, tell you that if you receive circumcision, Christ will profit you nothing.
Cross References
Proverbs 23:23Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
Matthew 11:28“Come to me, all you who labour and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
Luke 5:38But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.
Acts 15:10Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Romans 6:18Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
Romans 7:6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we 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 →