Galatians 5:1 Cross References - Moffatt

¹ with the freedom for which Christ set us free. Make a firm stand then, do not slip into any yoke of servitude.

²⁸ Come to me, all who are labouring and burdened, and I will refresh you. ²⁹ Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find your souls refreshed; ³⁰ my yoke is kindly and my burden light."

⁴ They make up heavy loads and lay them on men's shoulders, but they will not stir a finger to remove them.

³² you will understand the truth, and the truth will set you free." ³³ "We are Abraham's offspring," they retorted, "we have never been slaves to anybody. What do you mean by saying, 'You will be free'?" ³⁴ Jesus replied, "Truly, truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave. ³⁵ Now the slave does not remain in the household for all time; the son of the house does. ³⁶ So, if the Son sets you free, you will be really free.

¹⁰ Well now, why are you trying to impose a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we ourselves could bear?

¹⁴ Sin must have no hold over you, for you live under grace, not under law.

¹⁸ set free from sin, you have passed into the service of righteousness.

³ Accordingly, she will be termed an adulteress if she becomes another man's while her husband is alive; but if her husband dies, she is freed from the law of 'the husband,' so that she is no adulteress if she becomes another man's.

⁶ but now we are done with the Law, we have died to what once held us, so that we can serve in a new way, not under the written code as of old but in the Spirit.

² the law of the Spirit brings the life which is in Christ Jesus, and that law has set me free from the law of sin and death.

²² But a slave who is called to be in the Lord is a freedman of the Lord. Just as a free man who is called is a slave of Christ

⁵⁸ Well then, my beloved brothers, hold your ground, immovable; abound in work for the Lord at all times, for you may be sure that in the Lord your labour is never thrown away.

¹³ Watch, stand firm in the faith, play the man, be strong!

¹⁷ (The Lord means the Spirit, and wherever the Spirit of the Lord is, there is open freedom.)

⁴ 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.

²⁵ But faith has come, and we are wards no longer;

⁹ but now that you know God — or rather, are known by God — how is it you are turning back again to the weakness and poverty of the Elemental spirits? Why do you want to be enslaved all over again by them?

²⁶ But the Jerusalem on high is free, and she is 'our' mother.

³¹ Hence we are children of no slave-woman, my brothers, but of the free-woman,

¹³ Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.

¹⁴ Hold your ground, tighten the belt of truth about your loins, wear integrity as your coat of mail,

²⁷ Only, do lead a life that is worthy of the gospel of Christ. Whether I come and see you or only hear of you in absence, let me know you are standing firm in a common spirit, fighting side by side like one man for the faith of the gospel.

¹⁶ So let no one take you to task on questions of eating and drinking or in connexion with the observance of festivals or new moons or sabbaths. ¹⁷ All that is the mere shadow of what is to be; the substance belongs to Christ. ¹⁸ Let no one lay down rules for you as he pleases, with regard to fasting and the cult of angels, presuming on his visions and inflated by his sensuous notions, ¹⁹ instead of keeping in touch with that Head under whom the entire Body, supplied with joints and sinews and thus compacted, grows with growth divine. ²⁰ As you died with Christ to the Elemental spirits of the world, why live as if you still belonged to the world? Why submit to rules and regulations like ²¹ "Hands off this!" "Taste not that!" "Touch not this!" — ²² referring to things that perish by being used? These rules are determined by human precepts and tenets;

⁸ It is life to me now, if you stand firm in the Lord.

¹⁵ Well then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the rules which you have learned from us orally or by letter.

⁶ Christ is faithful as a Son over God's house. Now we are this house of God, if we will only keep confident and proud of our hope.

¹⁴ For we only participate in Christ provided that we keep firm to the very end the confidence with which we started,

¹⁴ As we have a great high priest, then, who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast to our confession;

⁸ By this the holy Spirit means that the way into the Holiest Presence was not disclosed so long as the first tent ⁹ (which foreshadowed the present age) was still standing, with its offerings of gifts and sacrifices which cannot possibly make the conscience of the worshipper perfect, ¹⁰ since they relate merely to food and drink and a variety of ablutions — outward regulations for the body, that only hold till the period of the New Order. ¹¹ But when Christ arrived as the high priest of the bliss that was to be, he passed through the greater and more perfect tent which no hands had made (no part, that is to say, of the present order),

²³ let us hold the hope we avow without wavering (for we can rely on him who gave us the Promise);

³⁵ Now do not drop that confidence of yours; it carries with it a rich hope of reward. ³⁶ Steady patience is what you need, so that after doing the will of God you may get what you have been promised. ³⁷ For in a little, a very little now, The Coming One will arrive without delay. ³⁸ Meantime my just man shall live on by his faith; if he shrinks back, my soul takes no delight in him. ³⁹ We are not the men to shrink back and be lost, but to have faith and so to win our souls.

¹⁶ Live like free men, only do not make your freedom a pretext for misconduct; live like servants of God.

¹⁹ promising them freedom, when they are themselves enslaved to corruption (for a man is the slave of whatever overpowers him).

³ Beloved, my whole concern was to write to you on the subject of our common salvation, but I am forced to write you an appeal to defend the faith which has once for all been committed to the saints;

²⁰ But do you, beloved, build up yourselves on your most holy faith and pray in the holy Spirit, ²¹ so keeping yourselves within the love of God and waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that ends in life eternal.

²⁵ only hold to what you have, till such time as I come.

³ Now remember what you received and heard, hold to it and repent. If you will not wake up, I shall come like a thief; you will not know at what hour I come upon you.