This 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.
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery
For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn
In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the G
As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!
Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God. For many false prophets hav
Now there were also false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will secretly
But now that you know God, or rather are known by God, how is it that you are turning back to those weak and worthless p
So also, when we were children, we were enslaved under the basic principles of the world.
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered
Before this faith came, we were held in custody under the law, locked up until faith should be revealed.
Even from your own number, men will rise up and distort the truth to draw away disciples after them.
Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
Restore to me the joy of Your salvation, and sustain me with a willing spirit.
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery that returns you to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption to sonship
Then some men came down from Judea and were teaching the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised according to the custom o
In this confident boasting of mine, I am not speaking as the Lord would, but as a fool.
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or str
And I will walk in freedom, for I have sought Your precepts.
It has come to our attention that some went out from us without our authorization and unsettled you, troubling your mind
I am confident in the Lord that you will take no other view. The one who is troubling you will bear the judgment, whoeve
I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Lie down, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made you
So He said to the Jews who had believed Him, “If you continue in My word, you are truly My disciples.
They are the kind who worm their way into households and captivate vulnerable women who are weighed down with sins and l
Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with
For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as apostles of Christ.