Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Galatians 5:1

“Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.”

Galatians 5:1 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Galatians 5:1, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Galatians 5. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

2 Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing.

3 For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 2 Corinthians 3:17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
  • Galatians 5:13For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
  • 1 Peter 2:16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
  • Romans 6:14For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
  • John 8:32And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
  • Romans 8:2For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
  • Galatians 4:9But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?
  • Hebrews 10:23Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;)
  • Galatians 4:31So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free.
  • Jude 1:20But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,
  • Galatians 2:4And 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:
  • Revelation 3:3Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will co…
  • 2 Peter 2:19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
  • Romans 6:18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.

More to meet God in Galatians

Galatians 5:22Galatians 2:20Galatians 6:9Galatians 6:2Galatians 1:4Galatians 3:14Galatians 3:13Galatians 4:4Galatians 2:16Galatians 3:17Galatians 1:7Galatians 6:1Galatians 3:1Galatians 5:17

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.