Galatians 5:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

Cross References

Psalm 51:12

Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and sustain in me a willing spirit.

Proverbs 23:23

Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.

Isaiah 61:1

The spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord has anointed me; he has sent me to bring good news to the oppressed, to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to the prisoners,

Matthew 23:4

They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others, but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them.

Luke 5:38

But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins.

Acts 15:10

Now, therefore, why are you putting God to the test by placing on the neck of the disciples a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?

Romans 6:14

For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace.

Romans 6:18

and that you, having been set free from sin, have become enslaved to righteousness.

Romans 7:3

Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she belongs to another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she belongs to another man, she is not an adulteress.

Romans 7:6

But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are enslaved in the newness of the Spirit and not in the oldness of the written code.

Romans 8:15

For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Romans 8:2

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and of death.

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brothers and sisters, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the work of the Lord because you know that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.

1 Corinthians 16:13

Keep alert; stand firm in the faith; be courageous; be strong.

1 Corinthians 7:22

For whoever was called in the Lord as a slave is a freed person belonging to the Lord, just as whoever was free when called is a slave belonging to Christ.

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you put up with it when someone makes slaves of you or preys upon you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or gives you a slap in the face.

2 Corinthians 3:17

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

Galatians 2:4

But because of false brothers and sisters secretly brought in, who slipped in to spy on the freedom we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might enslave us—

Galatians 3:25

But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian,

Galatians 4:26

But the other woman corresponds to the Jerusalem above; she is free, and she is our mother.

Galatians 4:31

So then, brothers and sisters, we are children, not of an enslaved woman but of the free woman.

Galatians 4:9

Now, however, that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, how can you turn back again to the weak and beggarly elemental principles? How can you want to be enslaved to them again?

Galatians 5:13

For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters, only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become enslaved to one another.

Ephesians 6:14

Stand, therefore, and belt your waist with truth and put on the breastplate of righteousness

Philippians 1:27

Only, live your life in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that, whether I come and see you or am absent and hear about you, I will know that you are standing firm in one spirit, striving side by side with one mind for the faith of the gospel

1 Thessalonians 3:8

For we now live, if you continue to stand firm in the Lord.

2 Thessalonians 2:15

So then, brothers and sisters, stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by our letter.

Hebrews 10:23

Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who has promised is faithful.

Hebrews 3:14

For we have become partners of Christ, if only we hold our first confidence firm to the end.

Hebrews 3:6

Christ, however, was faithful over God’s house as a son, and we are his house if we hold firm the boldness and the pride inspired by hope.

Hebrews 4:14

Since, then, we have a great high priest who has passed through the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession.

1 Peter 2:16

As servants of God, live as free people, yet do not use your freedom as a pretext for evil.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, for people are slaves to whatever masters them.

Jude 1:3

Beloved, while eagerly preparing to write to you about the salvation we share, I find it necessary to write and appeal to you to contend for the faith that was once and for all handed on to the saints.

Revelation 2:25

only hold fast to what you have until I come.

Revelation 3:3

Remember, then, what you received and heard; obey it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know at what hour I will come to you.