Galatians 2:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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:

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  • 2 Cor 11:26 : 26 [In] journeyings often, [in] perils of waters, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils by [mine own] countrymen, [in] perils by the heathen, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren;
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 ¶ Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour [you], if a man take [of you], if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.
  • Acts 15:1 : 1 ¶ And certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, [and said], Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved.
  • Acts 15:24 : 24 Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, [Ye must] be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no [such] commandment:
  • Gal 4:25 : 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
  • Gal 4:3 : 3 Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
  • 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 For such [are] false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.
  • Gal 5:12-13 : 12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you. 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.
  • 2 Tim 3:6 : 6 For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 As free, and not using [your] liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
  • 2 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 ¶ But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. 2 And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.
  • 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.
  • 1 John 4:1 : 1 ¶ Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
  • Gal 5:10 : 10 I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.
  • 2 Cor 11:17 : 17 That which I speak, I speak [it] not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
  • Gal 3:23-26 : 23 But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster [to bring us] unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster. 26 For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.
  • Gal 4:9-9 : 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? 10 Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
  • 2 Cor 3:17 : 17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord [is], there [is] liberty.
  • Ps 51:12 : 12 Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me [with thy] free spirit.
  • Ps 119:45 : 45 ¶ And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
  • Isa 51:23 : 23 But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee; which have said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may go over: and thou hast laid thy body as the ground, and as the street, to them that went over.
  • John 8:31-36 : 31 ¶ Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, ‹If ye continue in my word,› [then] ‹are ye my disciples indeed;› 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.›

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