Galatians 2:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and `that' because of the false brethren brought in unawares, who did come in privily to spy out our liberty that we have in Christ Jesus, that us they might bring under bondage,

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  • 2 Cor 11:26 : 26 journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;
  • Gal 5:1 : 1 In the freedom, then, with which Christ did make you free -- stand ye, and be not held fast again by a yoke of servitude;
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 for there did come in unobserved certain men, long ago having been written beforehand to this judgment, impious, the grace of our God perverting to lasciviousness, and our only Master, God, and Lord -- Jesus Christ -- denying,
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 for ye bear, if any one is bringing you under bondage, if any one doth devour, if any one doth take away, if any one doth exalt himself, if any one on the face doth smite you;
  • Acts 15:1 : 1 And certain having come down from Judea, were teaching the brethren -- `If ye be not circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye are not able to be saved;'
  • Acts 15:24 : 24 seeing we have heard that certain having gone forth from us did trouble you with words, subverting your souls, saying to be circumcised and to keep the law, to whom we did give no charge,
  • Gal 4:25 : 25 for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now `is', and is in servitude with her children,
  • Gal 4:3 : 3 so also we, when we were babes, under the elements of the world were in servitude,
  • 2 Cor 11:13 : 13 for those such `are' false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,
  • Gal 5:12-13 : 12 O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you! 13 For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,
  • 2 Tim 3:6 : 6 for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 as free, and not having the freedom as the cloak of the evil, but as servants of God;
  • 2 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 And there did come also false prophets among the people, as also among you there shall be false teachers, who shall bring in besides destructive sects, and the Master who bought them denying, bringing to themselves quick destruction, 2 and many shall follow out their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of,
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 liberty to them promising, themselves being servants of the corruption, for by whom any one hath been overcome, to this one also he hath been brought to servitude,
  • 1 John 4:1 : 1 Beloved, every spirit believe not, but prove the spirits, if of God they are, because many false prophets have gone forth to the world;
  • Gal 5:10 : 10 I have confidence in regard to you in the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded; and he who is troubling you shall bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
  • 2 Cor 11:17 : 17 That which I speak, I speak not according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this the confidence of boasting;
  • Gal 3:23-26 : 23 And before the coming of the faith, under law we were being kept, shut up to the faith about to be revealed, 24 so that the law became our child-conductor -- to Christ, that by faith we may be declared righteous, 25 and the faith having come, no more under a child-conductor are we, 26 for ye are all sons of God through the faith in Christ Jesus,
  • Gal 4:9-9 : 9 and now, having known God -- and rather being known by God -- how turn ye again unto the weak and poor elements to which anew ye desire to be in servitude? 10 days ye observe, and months, and times, and years!
  • Acts 20:30 : 30 and of your own selves there shall arise men, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
  • Rom 8:15 : 15 for ye did not receive a spirit of bondage again for fear, but ye did receive a spirit of adoption in which we cry, `Abba -- Father.'
  • 2 Cor 3:17 : 17 And 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 Thy salvation, And a willing spirit doth sustain me.
  • Ps 119:45 : 45 And I walk habitually in a broad place, For Thy precepts I have sought.
  • Isa 51:23 : 23 And I have put it into the hand of those afflicting thee, Who have said to thy soul, Bow down, and we pass over, And thou makest as the earth thy body, And as the street to those passing by!'
  • John 8:31-36 : 31 Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth, 32 and the truth shall make you free.' 33 They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say -- Ye shall become free?' 34 Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you -- Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin, 35 and the servant doth not remain in the house -- to the age, the son doth remain -- to the age; 36 if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

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