Galatians 2:4

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And that because of the false brothers let in secretly, who came searching out our free condition which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might make servants of us;

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  • 2 Cor 11:26 : 26 In frequent travels, in dangers on rivers, in dangers from outlaws, in dangers from my countrymen, in dangers from the Gentiles, in dangers in the town, in dangers in the waste land, in dangers at sea, in dangers among false brothers;
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have come among you secretly, marked out before in the holy Writings for this evil fate, men without the fear of God, turning his grace into an unclean thing, and false to our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.
  • Acts 15:1 : 1 Now certain men came down from Judaea, teaching the brothers and saying that without circumcision, after the rule of Moses, there is no salvation.
  • Acts 15:24 : 24 Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;
  • Gal 4:25 : 25 Now this Hagar is the mountain Sinai in Arabia, and is the image of the Jerusalem which now is: which is a servant with her children.
  • Gal 4:3 : 3 So we, when we were young, were kept under the first rules of the world;
  • 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.
  • Gal 5:12-13 : 12 My desire is that they who give you trouble might even be cut off themselves. 13 Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
  • 2 Tim 3:6 : 6 For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;
  • 2 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it. 2 And a great number will go with them in their evil ways, through whom the true way will have a bad name.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 Saying that they will be free, while they themselves are the servants of destruction; because whatever gets the better of a man makes a servant of him.
  • 1 John 4:1 : 1 My loved ones, do not put your faith in every spirit, but put them to the test, to see if they are from God: because a great number of false prophets have gone out into the world.
  • Gal 5:10 : 10 I am certain about you in the Lord, that you will be of no other mind; but he who is troubling you will have his punishment, whoever he is.
  • 2 Cor 11:17 : 17 What I am now saying is not by the order of the Lord, but as a foolish person, taking credit to myself, as it seems.
  • Gal 3:23-26 : 23 But before faith came, we were kept in prison under the law, waiting for the revelation of the faith which was to come. 24 So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith. 25 But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a servant. 26 Because you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.
  • Gal 4:9-9 : 9 But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again? 10 You keep days, and months, and fixed times, and years.
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 And from among yourselves will come men who will give wrong teaching, turning away the disciples after them.
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For you did not get the spirit of servants again to put you in fear, but the spirit of sons was given to you, by which we say, Abba, Father.
  • 2 Cor 3:17 : 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there the heart is free.
  • Ps 51:12 : 12 Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support.
  • Ps 119:45 : 45 So that my way may be in a wide place: because my search has been for your orders.
  • Isa 51:23 : 23 And I will put it into the hand of your cruel masters, and of those whose yoke has been hard on you; who have said to your soul, Down on your face! so that we may go over you: and you have given your backs like the earth, even like the street, for them to go over.
  • John 8:31-36 : 31 Then Jesus said to the Jews who had faith in him, If you keep my word, then you are truly my disciples; 32 And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free. 33 They said to him in answer, We are Abraham's seed and have never been any man's servant: why do you say, You will become free? 34 And this was the answer Jesus gave them: Truly I say to you, Everyone who does evil is the servant of sin. 35 Now the servant does not go on living in the house for ever, but the son does. 36 If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.

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