Galatians 5:1

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τῇ ἐλευθερίᾳ οὖν ᾖ Χριστὸς ἡμᾶς ἠλευθέρωσεν στήκετε, καὶ μὴ πάλιν ζυγῷ δουλείας ἐνέχεσθε.

Transliteration

For the eleutheria therefore which Christos us ēleutherōsen stēkete, and not again to zugō douleias become enechesthe.

Grammar Details

• *eleutheria*: dative, feminine, singular - freedom/liberty
• *Christos*: nominative, masculine, singular - Christ
• *ēleutherōsen*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd person singular - set free/liberated
• *stēkete*: present, active, imperative, 2nd person plural - stand firm/stand fast
• *zugō*: dative, masculine, singular - yoke
• *douleias*: genitive, feminine, singular - of slavery/bondage
• *enechesthe*: present, passive, imperative, 2nd person plural - be subject to/be held by

Word Meanings

• *eleutheria*: freedom/liberty/independence
• *ēleutherōsen*: set free/liberated/freed
• *stēkete*: stand firm/stand fast/remain standing
• *zugō*: yoke/burden/pair
• *douleias*: slavery/bondage/servitude
• *enechesthe*: be subject to/be held by/be ensnared by

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 3:17 : 17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
• Gal 5:13 : 13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
• John 8:32-36 : 32 And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33 They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin. 35 And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.
• Gal 2:4 : 4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
• Rom 8:2 : 2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
• Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
• 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
• Acts 15:10 : 10 Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
• 1 Cor 7:22 : 22 For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.
• Gal 4:9 : 9 But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
• Heb 10:23 : 23 Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
• 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
• Ps 51:12 : 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
• Matt 11:28-30 : 28 Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
• Rom 6:18 : 18 Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
• Heb 10:35-39 : 35 Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward. 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry. 38 Now the just shall live by faith: but if any man draw back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of them who draw back unto perdition; but of them that believe to the saving of the soul.
• Rev 3:3 : 3 Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
• Jude 1:20-21 : 20 But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost, 21 Keep yourselves in the love of God, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.
• Gal 4:31 : 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
• Col 2:16-22 : 16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days: 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ. 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 And not holding the Head, from which all the body by joints and bands having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God. 20 Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, 21 Touch not; taste not; handle not; 22 Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?
• Gal 3:25 : 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
• Rom 7:6 : 6 But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
• Isa 61:1 : 1 The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
• 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
• Jude 1:3 : 3 Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
• Heb 9:8-9 : 8 The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing: 9 Which was a figure for the time then present, in which were offered both gifts and sacrifices, that could not make him that did the service perfect, as pertaining to the conscience; 10 Which stood only in meats and drinks, and divers washings, and carnal ordinances, imposed on them until the time of reformation. 11 But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;
• Heb 4:14 : 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
• Rev 2:25 : 25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
• 1 Thess 3:8 : 8 For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
• Heb 3:6 : 6 But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
• Eph 6:14 : 14 Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
• Phil 1:27 : 27 Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
• 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
• Gal 4:26 : 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
• Matt 23:4 : 4 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
• Prov 23:23 : 23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
• Rom 7:3 : 3 So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.
• Heb 3:14 : 14 For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
• 2 Thess 2:15 : 15 Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.