Galatians 5:1
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
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2Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if all of you be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.
Cross References
Proverbs 23:23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
Matthew 11:28Come unto me, all you that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Luke 5:38But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.
Acts 15:10Now therefore why tempt all of you God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
Romans 6:18Being then made free from sin, all of you became the servants of righteousness.
Romans 7:6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, (o. pneuma) and not in the 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 →