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Galatians 2:4

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

This matter arose because some false brothers  had infiltrated our ranks to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus in order to enslave us.

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For some people, who were designated for this judgement long ago,  , have come in by stealth;  they are ungodly,  turning the grace of our God into sensuality and denying  Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.


For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm,  then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.


In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elements  of the world.


On frequent journeys, I faced dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers,  dangers from my own people,  dangers from Gentiles, dangers in the city, dangers in the wilderness, dangers at sea, and dangers among false brothers;


Dear friends, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits  to see if they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.


They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.


For among them are those who worm their way into households and deceive gullible women overwhelmed by sins and led astray by a variety of passions,


I myself am persuaded in the Lord that you will not accept any other view. But whoever it is that is confusing you will pay the penalty.


In fact, you put up with it if someone enslaves you, if someone exploits  you, if someone takes advantage of you, if someone is arrogant towards you, if someone slaps  you in the face.


For such people are false apostles,  deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.


Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.


Men will rise up even from your own number and distort the truth to lure the disciples into following them.


Since we have heard that some without our authorisation went out from us  and troubled you with their words and unsettled your hearts,  ,


Some men  came down from Judea and began to teach the brothers, ‘Unless you are circumcised  according to the custom prescribed by Moses,  you cannot be saved.’


I will put it into the hands of your tormentors, who said to you, “Lie down, so that we can walk over you.” You made your back like the ground, and like a street for those who walk on it.


Submit as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil,  but as God’s slaves.


Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia  and corresponds to the present Jerusalem,  for she is in slavery with her children.


What I am saying in this matter  of boasting, I don’t speak as the Lord would, but, as it were, foolishly.


For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear.  Instead, you received the Spirit of adoption,  by whom we cry out, ‘Abba,  Father! ’


not that there is another gospel,  but there are some  who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.


But the one who looks intently into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer who works #– #this person will be blessed in what he does.


No, new wine is put into fresh wineskins.





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