13And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.
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Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners.
Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-21)I. From the account which Paul gives of what passed between him and the other apostles at Jerusalem, the Galatians might easily discern both the falseness of what his enemies had insinuated against him and their own folly and weakness in departing from that gospel which he had preached to them. But to give the greater weight to what he had already said, and more fully to fortify them against the i…
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