Galatians 5:13
For you, brothers, have been called to liberty. Only you must not make liberty into an occasion for the flesh, but instead, serve one another through the charity of the Spirit.
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In Context
12And I wish that those who disturb you would be torn away.
14For the entire law is fulfilled by one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
Cross References
Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the Lord has anointed me. He has sent me to bring good news to the meek, so as to heal the contrite of heart, to preach leniency to captives and release to the confined,
Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; because of this, he has anointed me. He has sent me to evangelize the poor, to heal the contrite of heart,
John 13:14Therefore, if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash the feet of one another.
Romans 6:18And having been freed from sin, we have become servants of justice.
1 Corinthians 8:9But be careful not to let your liberty become a cause of sin to those who are weak.
1 Corinthians 13:4Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 5:2-13
Exhortation to Stedfastness; Persuasives to Stedfastness. ( a. d. 56.) 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. 4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace. 5 For we through the… Read the whole commentary →