Galatians 2:4

New Century Version

We talked about this problem because some false believers had come into our group secretly. They came in like spies to overturn the freedom we have in Christ Jesus. They wanted to make us slaves.

Cross References

Jude 1:4

Some people have secretly entered your group. Long ago the prophets wrote about these people who will be judged guilty. They are against God and have changed the grace of our God into a reason for sexual sin. They also refuse to accept Jesus Christ, our only Master and Lord.

Galatians 5:1

We have freedom now, because Christ made us free. So stand strong. Do not change and go back into the slavery of the law.

Galatians 4:3

It is the same for us. We were once like children, slaves to the useless rules of this world.

2 Corinthians 11:26

I have gone on many travels and have been in danger from rivers, thieves, my own people, the Jews, and those who are not Jews. I have been in danger in cities, in places where no one lives, and on the sea. And I have been in danger with false Christians.

1 John 4:1

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

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are not free. They are slaves of things that will be destroyed. For people are slaves of anything that controls them.

2 Timothy 3:6

Some of them go into homes and get control of silly women who are full of sin and are led by many evil desires.

Galatians 5:10

But I trust in the Lord that you will not believe those different ideas. Whoever is confusing you with such ideas will be punished.

2 Corinthians 11:20

You are even patient with those who order you around, or use you, or trick you, or think they are better than you, or hit you in the face.

2 Corinthians 11:13

Such men are not true apostles but are workers who lie. They change themselves to look like apostles of Christ.

2 Corinthians 3:17

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

Acts 20:30

Also, some from your own group will rise up and twist the truth and will lead away followers after them.

Acts 15:24

We have heard that some of our group have come to you and said things that trouble and upset you. But we did not tell them to do this.

Acts 15:1

Then some people came to Antioch from Judea and began teaching the non-Jewish believers: “You cannot be saved if you are not circumcised as Moses taught us.”

Isaiah 51:23

I will now give that cup of punishment to those who gave you pain, who told you, ‘Bow down so we can walk over you.’ They made your back like dirt for them to walk on; you were like a street for them to travel on.”

1 Peter 2:16

Live as free people, but do not use your freedom as an excuse to do evil. Live as servants of God.

Galatians 4:25

She is like Mount Sinai in Arabia and is a picture of the earthly city of Jerusalem. This city and its people are slaves to the law.

2 Corinthians 11:17

When I brag because I feel sure of myself, I am not talking as the Lord would talk but as a fool.

Romans 8:15

The Spirit we received does not make us slaves again to fear; it makes us children of God. With that Spirit we cry out, “Father.”

Psalm 119:45

So I will live in freedom, because I want to follow your orders.

Psalm 51:12

Give me back the joy of your salvation. Keep me strong by giving me a willing spirit.

Galatians 1:7

Really, there is no other Good News. But some people are confusing you; they want to change the Good News of Christ.

James 1:25

But the truly happy people are those who carefully study God’s perfect law that makes people free, and they continue to study it. They do not forget what they heard, but they obey what God’s teaching says. Those who do this will be made happy.

Luke 5:38

New wine must be put into new leather bags.