Galatians 5:1

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Christ has truly made us free: then keep your free condition and let no man put a yoke on you again.

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  • 2 Cor 3:17 : 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there the heart is free.
  • Gal 5:13 : 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.
  • John 8:32-36 : 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.
  • Gal 2:4 : 4 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;
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Be on the watch, unmoved in the faith, and be strong like men.
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?
  • 1 Cor 7:22 : 22 For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.
  • Gal 4:9 : 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?
  • Heb 10:23 : 23 Let us keep the witness of our hope strong and unshaking, for he is true who has given his word:
  • 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;
  • Ps 51:12 : 12 Give me back the joy of your salvation; let a free spirit be my support.
  • Matt 11:28-30 : 28 Come to me, all you who are troubled and weighted down with care, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls; 30 For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.
  • Rom 6:18 : 18 And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.
  • Heb 10:35-39 : 35 So do not give up your hope which will be greatly rewarded. 36 For, having done what was right in God's eyes, you have need of waiting before his word has effect for you. 37 In a very little time he who is coming will come; he will not be slow. 38 But the upright man will be living by his faith; and if he goes back, my soul will have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of those who go back to destruction; but of those who have faith even to the salvation of the soul.
  • Rev 3:3 : 3 Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.
  • Jude 1:20-21 : 20 But you, my loved ones, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, and making prayers in the Holy Spirit, 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for life eternal through the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Gal 4:31 : 31 So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.
  • Col 2:16-22 : 16 For this reason let no man be your judge in any question of food or drink or feast days or new moons or Sabbaths: 17 For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's. 18 Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind, 19 And not joined to the Head, from whom all the body, being given strength and kept together through its joins and bands, has its growth with the increase of God. 20 If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders 21 Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands, 22 (Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?
  • Gal 3:25 : 25 But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a servant.
  • Rom 7:6 : 6 But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.
  • Isa 61:1 : 1 The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;
  • 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.
  • Jude 1:3 : 3 My loved ones, while my thoughts were full of a letter which I was going to send you about our common salvation, it was necessary for me to send you one requesting you with all my heart to go on fighting strongly for the faith which has been given to the saints once and for ever.
  • Heb 9:8-9 : 8 The Holy Spirit witnessing by this that the way into the holy place had not at that time been made open, while the first Tent was still in being; 9 And this is an image of the present time; when the offerings which are given are not able to make the heart of the worshipper completely clean, 10 Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right. 11 But now Christ has come as the high priest of the good things of the future, through this greater and better Tent, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this world,
  • Heb 4:14 : 14 Having then a great high priest, who has made his way through the heavens, even Jesus the Son of God, let us be strong in our faith.
  • Rev 2:25 : 25 But what you have, keep safe till I come.
  • 1 Thess 3:8 : 8 For it is life to us if you keep your faith in the Lord unchanged.
  • Heb 3:6 : 6 But Christ as a son, over his house; whose house are we, if we keep our hearts fixed in the glad and certain hope till the end.
  • Eph 6:14 : 14 Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness;
  • Phil 1:27 : 27 Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 For this cause, my dear brothers, be strong in purpose and unmoved, ever giving yourselves to the work of the Lord, because you are certain that your work is not without effect in the Lord.
  • Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem on high is free, which is our mother.
  • Matt 23:4 : 4 They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.
  • Prov 23:23 : 23 Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.
  • Rom 7:3 : 3 So if, while the husband is living, she is joined to another man, she will get the name of one who is untrue to her husband: but if the husband is dead, she is free from the law, so that she is not untrue, even if she takes another man.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For if we keep the substance of the faith which we had at the start, even till the end, we have a part with Christ;
  • 2 Thess 2:15 : 15 So then, brothers, be strong in purpose, and keep the teaching which has been given to you by word or by letter from us.

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    2See, I Paul say to you, that if you undergo circumcision, Christ will be of no use to you.

    3Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.

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    13Because 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.

  • Gal 4:31
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    31So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.

  • John 8:36
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    36If then the son makes you free, you will be truly free.

  • Gal 2:4-5
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    4And 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;

    5To whom we gave way not even for an hour; so that the true words of the good news might still be with you.

  • Rom 8:1-2
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    1For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.

    2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
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    21If you were a servant when you became a Christian, let it not be a grief to you; but if you have a chance to become free, make use of it.

    22For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.

    23It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;

  • Rom 7:6
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    6But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.

  • Rom 6:18
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    18And being made free from sin you have been made the servants of righteousness.

  • Gal 3:28-29
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    28There is no Jew or Greek, servant or free, male or female: because you are all one in Jesus Christ.

    29And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.

  • Gal 5:10-11
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    10I 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.

    11But I, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still attacked? then has the shame of the cross been taken away.

  • Rom 6:20
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    20When you were servants of sin you were free from righteousness.

  • Rom 6:22
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    22But now, being free from sin, and having been made servants to God, you have your fruit in that which is holy, and the end is eternal life.

  • Col 3:11
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    11Where there is no Greek or Jew, no one with circumcision or without circumcision, no division between nations, no servant or free man: but Christ is all and in all.

  • Gal 5:18
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    18But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • Acts 15:10
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    10Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?

  • Gal 4:7
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    7So that you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then the heritage of God is yours.

  • John 8:32-33
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    32And you will have knowledge of what is true, and that will make you free.

    33They 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?

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    7Because he who is dead is free from sin.

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    24And those who are Christ's have put to death on the cross the flesh with its passions and its evil desires.

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    20If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

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    12Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.

  • Gal 6:14-15
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    14But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.

    15For having circumcision is nothing, and not having circumcision is nothing, but only a new order of existence.

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    1For which reason, because we have righteousness through faith, let us be at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ;

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30But God has given you a place in Christ Jesus, through whom God has given us wisdom and righteousness and salvation, and made us holy:

  • Gal 2:17
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    17But if, while we were desiring to get righteousness through Christ, we ourselves were seen to be sinners, is Christ a servant of sin? In no way!

  • Rom 6:14-15
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    14For sin may not have rule over you: because you are not under law, but under grace.

    15What then? are we to go on in sin because we are not under law but under grace? Let it not be so.

  • Gal 3:25
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    25But now that faith is come, we are no longer under a servant.

  • Gal 3:13
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    13Christ has made us free from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us: because it is said in the Writings, A curse on everyone who is put to death by hanging on a tree:

  • 2 Pet 2:19
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    19Saying 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.

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    8And so, though I might, in the name of Christ, give you orders to do what is right,

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    6Because in Christ Jesus, having circumcision or not having circumcision are equally of no profit; but only faith working through love.

    7You were going on well; who was the cause of your not giving ear to what is true?

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    5That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.

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    3For we are the circumcision, who give worship to God and have glory in Jesus Christ, and have no faith in the flesh:

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    9But 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?

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    19For though I was free from all men, I made myself a servant to all, so that more might have salvation.