Galatians 5:1
Christ having made us gloriously free--stand fast and do not again be hampered with the yoke of slavery.
Weymouth NT (1912)
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Matthew 11:28"Come to me, all you toiling and burdened ones, and *I* will give you rest.
Luke 5:38But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.
Acts 15:10Now, therefore, why try an experiment upon God, by laying on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?
Romans 6:18You were set free from the tyranny of Sin, and became the bondservants of Righteousness--
Romans 7:6But seeing that we have died to that which once held us in bondage, the Law has now no hold over us, so that we render a service which, instead of being old and formal, is new and spiritual.
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 →