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 5:1Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
• Jude 1:4For 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 11:26In 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;
• 1 Jn 4:1Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.
• 2 Pet 2:1–2But 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.
• Gal 5:12–13I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
• Gal 4:9–10But 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?
• Gal 4:3Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world:
• 2 Pet 2:19While 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 Pet 2:16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
• 2 Tim 3:6For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with divers lusts,
• Ps 51:12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
• Rom 8:15For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.
• Acts 15:24Forasmuch 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:
• 2 Cor 3:17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
• 2 Cor 11:17That which I speak, I speak it not after the Lord, but as it were foolishly, in this confidence of boasting.
• Acts 20:30Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.
• Gal 4:25For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
• Gal 5:10I 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.
• Ps 119:45And I will walk at liberty: for I seek thy precepts.
• John 8:31–36Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed;
• Gal 3:23–26But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
• Isa 51:23But 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.
• 2 Cor 11:20For 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 15:1And 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.
• 2 Cor 11:13For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ.

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