Galatians 5:1

Christ has set us free for freedom, so we must stand firm and not submit again to the yoke of slavery. Paul urges believers to guard the gospel-freedom Christ purchased.

Cross-references · 39

• 2 Cor 3:17Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
• Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
• 1 Pet 2:16Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
• Rom 6:14For sin shall not be your master, because you are not under law, but under grace.
• John 8:32–36Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
• Rom 8:2For in Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life set you free from the law of sin and death.
• Gal 4:9But 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 4:31Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.
• Heb 10:23Let us hold resolutely to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful.
• Gal 2:4This issue arose because some false brothers had come in under false pretenses to spy on our freedom in Christ Jesus, in order to enslave us.
• Jude 1:20–21But you, beloved, by building yourselves up in your most holy faith and praying in the Holy Spirit,
• 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.
• Rom 6:18You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.
• 1 Cor 16:13Be on the alert. Stand firm in the faith. Be men of courage. Be strong.
• Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
• Rev 3:3Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.
• Rom 7:6But now, having died to what bound us, we have been released from the law, so that we serve in the new way of the Spirit, and not in the old way of the written code.
• Acts 15:10Now then, why do you test God by placing on the necks of the disciples a yoke that neither we nor our fathers have been able to bear?
• Matt 11:28–30Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
• 1 Cor 7:22For he who was a slave when he was called by the Lord is the Lord’s freedman. Conversely, he who was a free man when he was called is Christ’s slave.
• Ps 51:12Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.
• Jude 1:3Beloved, although I made every effort to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt it necessary to write and urge you to contend earnestly for the faith entrusted once for all to the saints.
• Heb 4:14Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we profess.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
• 2 Th 2:15Therefore, brothers, stand firm and cling to the traditions we taught you, whether by speech or by letter.
• Heb 10:35–39So do not throw away your confidence; it holds a great reward.
• Prov 23:23Invest in truth and never sell it—in wisdom and instruction and understanding.
• Heb 9:8–11By this arrangement the Holy Spirit was showing that the way into the Most Holy Place had not yet been disclosed as long as the first tabernacle was still standing.
• Gal 4:26But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.
• Phil 1:27Nevertheless, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. Then, whether I come and see you or only hear about you in my absence, I will know that you stand firm in one spirit, contending side by side for the faith of the gospel,
• Rev 2:25Nevertheless, hold fast to what you have until I come.
• Gal 3:25Now that faith has come, we are no longer under a guardian.
• Eph 6:14Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness arrayed,
• 1 Th 3:8For now we can go on living, as long as you are standing firm in the Lord.
• Heb 3:6But Christ is faithful as the Son over God’s house. And we are His house, if we hold firmly to our confidence and the hope of which we boast.
• Heb 3:14We have come to share in Christ if we hold firmly to the end the assurance we had at first.
• Matt 23:4They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
• Col 2:16–22Therefore let no one judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a feast, a New Moon, or a Sabbath.
• Rom 7:3So then, if she is joined to another man while her husband is still alive, she is called an adulteress; but if her husband dies, she is free from that law and is not an adulteress, even if she marries another man.

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