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 liberty.
• Gal 5:13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
• 1 Pet 2:16as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
• Rom 6:14For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.
• John 8:32–36You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
• Rom 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.
• Gal 4:9But 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 4:31So then, brothers, we are not children of a servant, but of the free woman.
• Heb 10:23let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.
• Gal 2:4This was because of the false brothers secretly brought in, who stole in to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage;
• Jude 1:20–21But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit.
• 2 Pet 2:19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
• Rom 6:18Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
• 1 Cor 16:13Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!
• Isa 61:1The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• Rev 3:3Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
• Rom 7:6But now we have been discharged from the law, having died to that in which we were held; so that we serve in newness of the spirit, and not in oldness of the letter.
• Acts 15:10Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
• Matt 11:28–30“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
• 1 Cor 7:22For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.
• Ps 51:12Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.
• Jude 1:3Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.
• Heb 4:14Having then a great high priest, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold tightly to our confession.
• 1 Cor 15:58Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
• 2 Th 2:15So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.
• Heb 10:35–39Therefore don’t throw away your boldness, which has a great reward.
• Prov 23:23Buy the truth, and don’t sell it. Get wisdom, discipline, and understanding.
• Heb 9:8–11The Holy Spirit is indicating this, that the way into the Holy Place wasn’t yet revealed while the first tabernacle was still standing;
• Gal 4:26But the Jerusalem that is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
• Phil 1:27Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;
• Rev 2:25Nevertheless, hold that which you have firmly until I come.
• Gal 3:25But now that faith has come, we are no longer under a tutor.
• Eph 6:14Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,
• 1 Th 3:8For now we live, if you stand fast in the Lord.
• Heb 3:6but Christ is faithful as a Son over his house; whose house we are, if we hold fast our confidence and the glorying of our hope firm to the end.
• Heb 3:14For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold fast the beginning of our confidence firm to the end:
• Matt 23:4For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.
• Col 2:16–22Let no one therefore judge you in eating, or in drinking, or with respect to a feast day or a new moon or a Sabbath day,
• Rom 7:3So then if, while the husband lives, she is joined to another man, she would be called an adulteress. But if the husband dies, she is free from the law, so that she is no adulteress, though she is joined to another man.

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