Charles Spurgeon Commentary Galatians 5:1

"For freedom did Christ set us free: stand fast therefore, and be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage." — Galatians 5:1 (ASV)

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

You are not under the law, but under grace. Do not subject yourselves, therefore, to legal principles. Do not live as if you were working for wages and were earning your own salvation.

Do not submit yourselves to the ritual and commandments of man, which would rob you of your liberty in many ways. But having once become a free man, never again wear the chain of a slave: Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.

Because you are the seed of Isaac, who was born according to the promise, you are not the children of the bondwoman; you are not Ishmaelites. Therefore, as you were born free, as Christ has made you free by virtue of your new birth, stand fast in that glorious liberty.