Galatians 5:1

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

For freedom, Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled ain with the yoke of bondage.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not become entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    For freedom{G1657} did{G3739} Christ{G5547} set{G1659} us{G2248} free:{G1657} stand fast{G4739} therefore,{G3767} and{G2532} be{G1758} not{G3361} entangled{G1758} again{G3825} in a yoke{G2218} of bondage.{G1397}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    Stand fast{G4739}{(G5720)} therefore{G3767} in the liberty{G1657} wherewith{G3739} Christ{G5547} hath made{G1659} us{G2248} free{G1659}{(G5656)}, and{G2532} be{G1758} not{G3361} entangled{G1758}{(G5744)} again{G3825} with the yoke{G2218} of bondage{G1397}.

  • Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

    Stond fast therfore in ye libertie wher with Christ hath made vs fre and wrappe not youre selves agayne in ye yoke of bondage.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Stonde fast therfore in the libertye wherwith Christ hath made vs fre, and be not wrapped agayne in the yocke off bondage.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Stand fast therefore in the libertie wherewith Christ hath made vs free, and be not intangled againe with the yoke of bondage.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    Stande fast therfore in the libertie wherwith Christe hath made vs free, and be not intangled agayne with ye yoke of bondage.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    ¶ Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

Referenced Verses

  • 2 Cor 3:17 : 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
  • John 8:32-36 : 32 And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free." 33 They answered him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’?" 34 Jesus replied, "Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin. 35 A slave does not remain in the household forever, but a son does remain forever. 36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free.
  • Gal 2:4 : 4 This arose because of false brothers who were secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so they might bring us into bondage.
  • Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set me free from the law of sin and death.
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin will not rule over you, because you are not under the law but under grace.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong.
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Now then, why are you testing God by placing a yoke on the necks of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?
  • 1 Cor 7:22 : 22 For the one who was called as a slave in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person; in the same way, the one who was called while free is Christ’s slave.
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 But now, having come to know God—or rather, having been known by God—how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles, whose slaves you want to be once more?
  • Heb 10:23 : 23 Let us hold firmly to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
  • Ps 51:12 : 12 Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
  • Matt 11:28-30 : 28 Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For My yoke is easy, and My burden is light.
  • Rom 6:18 : 18 Having been set free from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.
  • Heb 10:35-39 : 35 So do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward. 36 You need endurance so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised. 37 For yet in a very little while, the One who is coming will come and will not delay. 38 But My righteous one will live by faith; and if he draws back, My soul will have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not among those who shrink back to destruction, but among those who have faith for the preservation of the soul.
  • Rev 3:3 : 3 Remember, then, what you have received and heard; keep it and repent. If you are not alert, I will come unexpectedly like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.
  • Jude 1:20-21 : 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit, 21 keep yourselves in the love of God, as you wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to bring you eternal life.
  • Gal 4:31 : 31 So then, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
  • Col 2:16-22 : 16 Therefore, let no one judge you in regard to food and drink or regarding a festival, a new moon, or Sabbaths. 17 These are a shadow of the things to come, but the reality belongs to Christ. 18 Let no one disqualify you by delighting in false humility and the worship of angels, dwelling on things he has not seen, being puffed up without reason by his fleshly mind. 19 Such a person does not hold fast to the Head, from whom the whole body, supported and held together by its joints and ligaments, grows with a growth that comes from God. 20 If you died with Christ to the elemental principles of the world, why, as though still living in the world, do you submit to its decrees? 21 "Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle"— 22 which all perish as they are used—based on human commands and teachings.
  • Gal 3:25 : 25 Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.
  • Rom 7:6 : 6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to what once bound us, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.
  • Isa 61:1 : 1 The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to the prisoners.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 They promise freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave to whatever has mastered them.
  • Jude 1:3 : 3 Dear friends, although I was eager to write to you about our common salvation, I felt it necessary instead to write and urge you to contend earnestly for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints.
  • Heb 9:8-9 : 8 By this, the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing. 9 This is a symbol for the present time, indicating that the gifts and sacrifices being offered cannot perfect the worshiper in conscience. 10 They are only regulations concerning food and drink and various ceremonial washings, external ordinances imposed until the time of reformation. 11 But Christ came as the high priest of the good things that are to come. He entered through the greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is, not of this creation.
  • Heb 4:14 : 14 Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens—Jesus, the Son of God—let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.
  • Rev 2:25 : 25 But hold fast to what you have until I come.
  • 1 Thess 3:8 : 8 For now we live, if you stand firm in the Lord.
  • Heb 3:6 : 6 But Christ is faithful as the Son over God's house. And we are his house, if indeed we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope in which we boast.
  • Eph 6:14 : 14 Stand, then, with the belt of truth fastened around your waist and the breastplate of righteousness in place.
  • Phil 1:27 : 27 Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear that you are standing firm in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel.
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
  • Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
  • Matt 23:4 : 4 They tie up heavy and unbearable burdens, and place them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them.
  • Prov 23:23 : 23 Buy the truth and do not sell it—wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
  • Rom 7:3 : 3 Consequently, while her husband is still alive, she would be called an adulteress if she joins herself to another man; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law, so she would not be an adulteress by becoming another man’s wife.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if indeed we hold firmly to the beginning of our confidence steadfast until the end.
  • 2 Thess 2:15 : 15 So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold on to the traditions you were taught, either by what we said or by our letter.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    2 Listen! I, Paul, say to you that if you let yourselves be circumcised, Christ will be of no benefit to you.

    3 Again I declare to every man who allows himself to be circumcised that he is obligated to obey the whole law.

    4 You who are justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

  • Gal 5:13
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    13 For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

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

  • John 8:36
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    36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free.

  • Gal 2:4-5
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    78%

    4 This arose because of false brothers who were secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so they might bring us into bondage.

    5 But we did not yield in submission to them even for a moment, so that the truth of the gospel might remain with you.

  • Rom 8:1-2
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    1 So now, there is no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not live according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

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

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
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    21 Were you called while a slave? Do not let it trouble you. But if you can gain your freedom, do so.

    22 For the one who was called as a slave in the Lord is the Lord’s freed person; in the same way, the one who was called while free is Christ’s slave.

    23 You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16 Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

  • Rom 7:6
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    6 But now we have been released from the law, having died to what once bound us, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit and not in the old way of the written code.

  • Rom 6:18
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    18 Having been set free from sin, you became slaves to righteousness.

  • Gal 3:28-29
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    28 There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

    29 If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's seed, and heirs according to the promise.

  • Gal 5:10-11
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    10 I am confident in the Lord that you will think no other way. The one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.

    11 Brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? If that were the case, the offense of the cross would be eliminated.

  • Rom 6:20
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    20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

  • Rom 6:22
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    22 But now, having been freed from sin and bound to God, you have your fruit, which leads to sanctification—and the outcome is eternal life.

  • Col 3:11
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    11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave, or free, but Christ is all and in all.

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

  • Acts 15:10
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    10 Now then, why are you testing God by placing a yoke on the necks of the disciples that neither our fathers nor we have been able to bear?

  • Gal 4:7
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    7 So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and if a son, then also an heir through God.

  • John 8:32-33
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    32 And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."

    33 They answered him, "We are descendants of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’?"

  • Rom 6:7
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    7 For the one who has died has been freed from sin.

  • Gal 5:24
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    24 Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

  • Col 2:20
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    20 If you died with Christ to the elemental principles of the world, why, as though still living in the world, do you submit to its decrees?

  • Gal 6:12
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    12 Those who want to make a good impression in the flesh are the ones compelling you to be circumcised—only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.

  • Gal 6:14-15
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    14 But as for me, may I never boast except in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom the world has been crucified to me, and I to the world.

    15 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision means anything, but what matters is a new creation.

  • Rom 5:1
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    1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Cor 1:30
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    30 It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

  • Gal 2:17
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    17 But if, while seeking to be justified in Christ, we ourselves are found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!

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

    15 What then? Shall we sin because we are not under the law but under grace? Certainly not!

  • Gal 3:25
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    25 Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.

  • Gal 3:13
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    13 Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.'

  • 2 Pet 2:19
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    19 They promise freedom while they themselves are slaves of corruption, for a person is a slave to whatever has mastered them.

  • Phlm 1:8
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    8 For this reason, although I have great boldness in Christ to command you to do what is right,

  • Gal 5:6-7
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    6 For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision carries any weight, but faith working through love does.

    7 You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?

  • Gal 4:5
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    5 to redeem those under the law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.

  • Phil 3:3
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    3 For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, glory in Christ Jesus, and do not put confidence in the flesh.

  • Gal 4:9
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    9 But now, having come to know God—or rather, having been known by God—how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles, whose slaves you want to be once more?

  • Gal 3:1
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    1 You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes, Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.

  • 1 Cor 9:19
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    19 For though I am free from all, I have made myself a servant to everyone, so that I might win more of them.