Galatians 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made vs free, and be not intangled againe with the yoke of bondage.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
2Beholde, I Paul say vnto you, that if yee be circumcised, Christ shall profite you nothing.
Cross References
Proverbs 23:23Bye the trueth, but sell it not: likewise wisdome, and instruction, and vnderstanding.
Matthew 11:28Come vnto me, all ye that are wearie and laden, and I will ease you.
Luke 5:38But newe wine must be powred into newe vessels: so both are preserued.
Acts 15:10Nowe therefore, why tempt ye God, to lay a yoke on the disciples neckes, which neither our fathers, nor we were able to beare?
Romans 6:18Being then made free from sinne, yee are made the seruants of righteousnesse.
Romans 7:6But now we are deliuered from the Lawe, he being dead in whom we were holden, that we should serue in newnesse of Spirite, and not in the oldnesse 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 →