Galatians 2:4

False brothers had secretly infiltrated to spy out and undermine the freedom believers have in Christ. Their aim was to bring Christians back into bondage to the law.

Cross-references · 26

• Gal 5:1It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.
• Jude 1:4For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• 2 Cor 11:26In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,
• 1 Jn 4:1Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets have gone out into the world.
• 2 Pet 2:1–2Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them—bringing swift destruction on themselves.
• Gal 5:12–13As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!
• Gal 4:9–10But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?
• Gal 4:3So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.
• 2 Pet 2:19They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
• 1 Pet 2:16Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
• 2 Tim 3:6They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and led astray by various passions,
• Ps 51:12Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.
• Rom 8:15For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
• Acts 15:24It has come to our attention that some went out from us without our authorization and unsettled you, troubling your minds by what they said.
• 2 Cor 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
• 2 Cor 11:17In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.
• Acts 20:30Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
• Gal 4:25Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.
• Gal 5:10I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoever he may be.
• Ps 119:45And I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts.
• John 8:31–36So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
• Gal 3:23–26Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.
• Isa 51:23I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.”
• 2 Cor 11:20In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.
• Acts 15:1Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved.”
• 2 Cor 11:13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.

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