Galatians 2:4

World English Bible (2000)

This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in 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 I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.
  • Acts 15:1 : 1 Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, "Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can't be saved."
  • Acts 15:24 : 24 Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, 'You must be circumcised and keep the law,' to whom we gave no commandment;
  • Gal 4:25 : 25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
  • Gal 4:3 : 3 So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
  • 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ's apostles.
  • Gal 5:12-13 : 12 I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off. 13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
  • 2 Tim 3:6 : 6 For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
  • 2 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. 2 Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
  • 1 John 4:1 : 1 Beloved, don't believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
  • Gal 5:10 : 10 I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
  • 2 Cor 11:17 : 17 That which I speak, I don't speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
  • Gal 3:23-26 : 23 But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed. 24 So that the law has become our tutor to bring us to Christ, that we might be justified by faith. 25 But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor. 26 For you are all children of God, through faith in Christ Jesus.
  • Gal 4:9-9 : 9 But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again? 10 You observe days, months, seasons, and years.
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"
  • 2 Cor 3:17 : 17 Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
  • Ps 51:12 : 12 Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
  • Ps 119:45 : 45 I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.
  • Isa 51:23 : 23 and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, 'Bow down, that we may walk over you;' and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who walk over."
  • John 8:31-36 : 31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, "If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples. 32 You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free." 33 They answered him, "We are Abraham's seed, and have never been in bondage to anyone. How do you say, 'You will be made free?'" 34 Jesus answered them, "Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin. 35 A bondservant doesn't live in the house forever. A son remains forever. 36 If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

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