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.
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. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 and that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [My precaution was] because of false brethren who had been secretly smuggled in [to the Christian brotherhood]; they had slipped in to spy on our liberty and the freedom which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might again bring us into bondage [under the Law of Moses]. American Standard Version (1901) and that because of the false brethren privily brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: Common English Bible But false brothers and sisters, who were brought in secretly, slipped in to spy on our freedom, which we have in Christ Jesus, and to make us slaves. Catholic Public Domain Version but only because of false brothers, who were brought in unknowingly. They entered secretly to spy on our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might reduce us to servitude. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version But because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privately to spy our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into servitude. |
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.
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.’
Since we have heard that some without our authorisation went out from us and troubled you with their words and unsettled your hearts, ,
Men will rise up even from your own number and distort the truth to lure the disciples into following them.
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! ’
For such people are false apostles, deceitful workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
What I am saying in this matter of boasting, I don’t speak as the Lord would, but, as it were, foolishly.
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.
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;
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are troubling you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children.
In the same way we also, when we were children, were in slavery under the elements of the world.
For freedom, Christ set us free. Stand firm, then, and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery.
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.
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,
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.
Submit as free people, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but as God’s slaves.
They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption, since people are enslaved to whatever defeats them.
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.
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.