Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
Stand fast, therefore - Be firm and unwavering. This verse properly belongs to the previous chapter, and should not have been separated from it. The sense is, that they were to be firm and unyielding in maintaining the great principles of Christian liberty. They had been freed from the bondage of rites and ceremonies; and they should by no means, and in no form, yield to them again.
In the liberty ... - Compare John 8:32, John 8:36; Romans 6:18; Notes, Galatians 4:3-5.
And be not entangled again - Tyndale renders this, "And wrap not yourselves again." The sense is, do not again allow such a yoke to be put on you; do not again become slaves to any rites, and customs, and habits.
The yoke of bondage - Of servitude to the Jewish laws; see the note at Acts 15:10.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
Psalms 19:13
Matthew 11:29
Acts 4:12
Acts 15:10
Romans 16:17
1 Corinthians 7:35
Galatians 2:4
Colossians 2:20
1 Timothy 6:1
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