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Galatians 2:4

James Moffatt - New Testament

There were traitors of false brothers, who had crept in to spy out the freedom we enjoy in Christ Jesus; they did aim at enslaving us again.

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for certain persons have slipped in by stealth (their doom has been predicted long ago), impious creatures who pervert the grace of our God into immorality and disown our sole liege and Lord, Jesus Christ.

with the freedom for which Christ set us free. Make a firm stand then, do not slip into any yoke of servitude.

So with us. When we were under age, we lived under the thraldom of the Elemental spirits of the world;

I have been often on my travels, I have been in danger from rivers and robbers, in danger from Jews and Gentiles, through dangers of town and of desert, through dangers on the sea, through dangers among false brothers —

Do not believe every spirit, beloved, but test the spirits to see if they come from God; for many false prophets have emerged in the world.

promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).

Some of them worm their way into families and get hold of the women-folk who feel crushed by the burden of their sins — wayward creatures of impulse,

I feel persuaded in the Lord that you will not go wrong. But he who unsettles you will have to meet his doom, no matter who he is.

You put up with a man who assumes control of your souls, with a man who spends your money, with a man who dupes you, with a man who gives himself airs, with a man who flies in your face.

'Apostles'? They are spurious apostles, false workmen — they are masquerading as 'apostles of Christ.'

(The Lord means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is open freedom.)

and men of your own number will arise with perversions of the truth to draw the disciples after them.

Having learned that some of our number, quite unauthorized by us, have unsettled you with their teaching and upset your souls,

But certain individuals came down from Jerusalem and taught the brothers that "unless you get circumcised after the custom of Moses you cannot be saved."

Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for misconduct; live like servants of God.

for mount Sinai is away in Arabia. She corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for the latter is in servitude with her children.

(What I am now going to say is not inspired by the Lord: I am in the role of a 'fool,' now, on this business of boasting.

You have received no slavish spirit that would make you relapse into fear; you have received the Spirit of sonship. And when we cry, "Abba! Father!",

It simply means that certain individuals are unsettling you; they want to distort the gospel of Christ.

Whereas he who gazes into the faultless law of freedom and remains in that position, proving himself to be no forgetful listener but an active agent, he will be blessed in his activity.

No, fresh wine must be poured into new wineskins.




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