Galatians 5:1

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.

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  • 2 Cor 3:17 : 17 Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
  • Gal 5:13 : 13 For, brethren, you have been called to freedom; only do not use freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
  • John 8:32-36 : 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33 They answered him, We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone: how can you say, You shall be made free? 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 And the slave does not abide in the house forever: but the Son abides forever. 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.
  • Gal 2:4 : 4 And that because of false brethren stealthily brought in, who came in secretly 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 has made me free from the law of sin and death.
  • Rom 6:14 : 14 For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under the law but under grace.
  • 1 Cor 16:13 : 13 Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Now therefore why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
  • 1 Cor 7:22 : 22 For he who is called in the Lord while a servant is the Lord's freedman. Likewise, he who is called while free is Christ's servant.
  • Gal 4:9 : 9 But now after you have known God, or rather are known by God, how do you turn again to the weak and beggarly principles, to which you desire again to be in bondage?
  • Heb 10:23 : 23 Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful;
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 As free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
  • Ps 51:12 : 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and uphold me with your free spirit.
  • Matt 11:28-30 : 28 Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
  • Rom 6:18 : 18 And having been set free from sin, you became servants of righteousness.
  • Heb 10:35-39 : 35 Therefore do not cast away your confidence, which has great reward. 36 For you have need of endurance, so that after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise. 37 For yet a little while, and he who is coming will come and will not tarry. 38 Now the just shall live by faith; but if anyone draws back, my soul shall have no pleasure in him. 39 But we are not of those who draw back to destruction, but of those who believe to the saving of the soul.
  • Rev 3:3 : 3 Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore you shall not watch, I will come upon you as a thief, and you shall not know what hour I will come upon you.
  • Jude 1:20-21 : 20 But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, 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 one therefore judge you in food or in drink, or regarding a holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days; 17 Which are a shadow of things to come; but the substance is of Christ. 18 Let no one beguile you of your reward in a false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, 19 And not holding to the Head, from whom all the body, nourished and knit together by joints and ligaments, grows with the increase that is from God. 20 Therefore if you died with Christ from the basic principles of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to regulations, 21 "Do not touch, do not taste, do not handle," 22 Which all concern things which perish with the using, according to the commandments and doctrines of men?
  • Gal 3:25 : 25 But after that faith has 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 has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
  • Jude 1:3 : 3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you, exhorting you to earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered to the saints.
  • Heb 9:8-9 : 8 The Holy Spirit indicating this, that the way into the Holiest of All was not yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing: 9 Which was a symbol for the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered that cannot make the worshiper perfect in conscience; 10 Concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation. 11 But Christ came as a high priest of the good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this creation;
  • Heb 4:14 : 14 Seeing then that we have a great high priest who has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
  • Rev 2:25 : 25 But hold fast 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 as a Son over His own house; whose house we are, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm until the end.
  • Eph 6:14 : 14 Stand therefore, having your waist girded with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
  • Phil 1:27 : 27 Only let your conduct be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
  • 1 Cor 15:58 : 58 Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
  • Gal 4:26 : 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all.
  • Matt 23:4 : 4 For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, 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 do not sell it, also wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
  • Rom 7:3 : 3 So then if, while her husband lives, she is married to another man, she will be called an adulteress: but if her husband is dead, she is free from that law; so that she is not an adulteress, though she is married to another man.
  • Heb 3:14 : 14 For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast to the end;
  • 2 Thess 2:15 : 15 Therefore, brothers, stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

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