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 that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
• Gal 5:13For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
• 1 Pet 2:16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
• Rom 6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
• John 8:32–36And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
• Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
• Gal 4:9But 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 4:31So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
• Heb 10:23Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
• Gal 2:4And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
• Jude 1:20–21But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
• 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.
• Rom 6:18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
• 1 Cor 16:13Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.
• Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
• Rev 3:3Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
• Rom 7:6But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.
• Acts 15:10Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
• Matt 11:28–30Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
• 1 Cor 7:22For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord’s freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ’s servant.
• Ps 51:12Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation; and uphold me with thy free spirit.
• Jude 1:3Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.
• Heb 4:14Seeing then that we have a great high priest, that is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
• 2 Th 2:15Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
• Heb 10:35–39Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompence of reward.
• Prov 23:23Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
• Heb 9:8–11The Holy Ghost this signifying, that the way into the holiest of all was not yet made manifest, while as the first tabernacle was yet standing:
• Gal 4:26But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
• Phil 1:27Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;
• Rev 2:25But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
• Gal 3:25But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster.
• Eph 6:14Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
• 1 Th 3:8For now we live, if ye stand fast in the Lord.
• Heb 3:6But Christ as a son over his own house; whose house are we, if we hold fast the confidence and the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end.
• Heb 3:14For we are made partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence stedfast unto the end;
• Matt 23:4For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
• Col 2:16–22Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
• Rom 7:3So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

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