Galatians 5:1
It is for freedom that Christ set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not again be held under the yoke of slavery.
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Matthew 11:28Come to me, all you who toil and are burdened, and I will give you rest!
Luke 5:38But new wine must be put into fresh skins.
Acts 15:10Why, then, do you now provoke God, by putting on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our ancestors nor we were able to bear?
Romans 6:18Set free from the control of Sin, you became servants to Righteousness.
Romans 7:6But now we are set free from the Law, because we are dead to that which once kept us under restraint; and so we serve under new, spiritual conditions, and not under old, written regulations.
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 →