Galatians 2:4

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear has punishment. He who fears is not made perfect in love.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

If therefore the Son makes you free, you will be free indeed.

For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

But we received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.

And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!”

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

What if God, willing to show his wrath and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,

Watch! Stand firm in the faith! Be courageous! Be strong!

and might deliver all of them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.

Now therefore why do you tempt God, that you should put a yoke on the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

For he who was called in the Lord being a bondservant is the Lord’s free man. Likewise he who was called being free is Christ’s bondservant.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

For God didn’t give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control.

He said, “Watch out that you don’t get led astray, for many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am he,’ and, ‘The time is at hand.’ Therefore don’t follow them.

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?

and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discerning of spirits; to another different kinds of languages; and to another the interpretation of languages.

let’s hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering; for he who promised is faithful.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the Antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.

I am yours. Save me, for I have sought your precepts.

When you go, your steps will not be hampered. When you run, you will not stumble.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

When some of both the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, made a violent attempt to mistreat and stone them,

In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.

I have been in travels often, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from my countrymen, perils from the Gentiles, perils in the city, perils in the wilderness, perils in the sea, perils among false brothers;

Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don’t be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

having predestined us for adoption as children through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his desire,

Let us therefore, as many as are perfect, think this way. If in anything you think otherwise, God will also reveal that to you.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

whose mouths must be stopped: men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for dishonest gain’s sake.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

and, “a stumbling stone and a rock of offense.” For they stumble at the word, being disobedient, to which also they were appointed.

but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

“I know your works, and your toil and perseverance, and that you can’t tolerate evil men, and have tested those who call themselves apostles, and they are not, and found them false.

It is the spirit who gives life. The flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and are life.

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed rose up, saying, “It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

Because we have heard that some who went out from us have troubled you with words, unsettling your souls, saying, ‘You must be circumcised and keep the law,’ to whom we gave no commandment;

But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are children of God;

But to the rest I—not the Lord—say, if any brother has an unbelieving wife, and she is content to live with him, let him not leave her.

And I wrote this very thing to you, so that, when I came, I wouldn’t have sorrow from them of whom I ought to rejoice; having confidence in you all, that my joy would be shared by all of you.

For you bear with a man if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, or if he strikes you on the face.

For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

They went out from us, but they didn’t belong to us; for if they had belonged to us, they would have continued with us. But they left, that they might be revealed that none of them belong to us.

Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to the Jerusalem that exists now, for she is in bondage with her children.

Restore to me the joy of your salvation. Uphold me with a willing spirit.

I will walk in liberty, for I have sought your precepts.

I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”

but while people slept, his enemy came and sowed darnel weeds also among the wheat, and went away.

Men will arise from among your own selves, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

For you didn’t receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!”

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

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

That which I speak, I don’t speak according to the Lord, but as in foolishness, in this confidence of boasting.

I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let’s go and serve other gods”—which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;

they came near to Zerubbabel, and to the heads of fathers’ households, and said to them, “Let us build with you; for we seek your God, as you do; and we have been sacrificing to him since the days of Esar Haddon king of Assyria, who brought us up here.”

Whoever causes the upright to go astray in an evil way, he will fall into his own trap; but the blameless will inherit good.

Israel, your prophets have been like foxes in the waste places.

Now when they fall, they will be helped with a little help; but many will join themselves to them with flatteries.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a dragnet, that was cast into the sea, and gathered some fish of every kind,

But new wine must be put into fresh wine skins, and both are preserved.

When Saul had come to Jerusalem, he tried to join himself to the disciples; but they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

but there isn’t another “good news.” Only there are some who trouble you and want to pervert the Good News of Christ.

I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.

Now I say this that no one may delude you with persuasiveness of speech.

For there are also many unruly men, vain talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

But he who looks into the perfect law of freedom and continues, not being a hearer who forgets, but a doer of the work, this man will be blessed in what he does.

Therefore my judgment is that we don’t trouble those from among the Gentiles who turn to God,

You were bought with a price. Don’t become bondservants of men.

Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.