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 firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
• Jude 1:4For 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 11:26I 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;
• 1 Jn 4:1Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.
• 2 Pet 2:1–2But 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.
• Gal 5:12–13I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
• Gal 4:9–10But 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?
• Gal 4:3So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.
• 2 Pet 2:19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
• 1 Pet 2:16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
• 2 Tim 3:6For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
• Ps 51:12Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
• Rom 8:15For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”
• Acts 15:24Because 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;
• 2 Cor 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
• 2 Cor 11:17That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.
• Acts 20:30Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.
• Gal 4:25For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.
• Gal 5:10I 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.
• Ps 119:45I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.
• John 8:31–36Jesus therefore said to those Jews who had believed him, “If you remain in my word, then you are truly my disciples.
• Gal 3:23–26But before faith came, we were kept in custody under the law, confined for the faith which should afterwards be revealed.
• Isa 51:23and 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, like a street to those who walk over.”
• 2 Cor 11:20For 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 15:1Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”
• 2 Cor 11:13For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

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