Galatians 5:13
For ye were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
In Context
12I would that they were even cut off who unsettle you.
14For all the law is fulfilled in one word, in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Cross References
Luke 4:18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me; Because he anointed me to publish good tidings to the poor; He has sent me to proclaim deliverance to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To send the oppressed away free,
John 13:14If I then, the Master and the Teacher, washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
Romans 6:18and being made free from sin, ye became servants of righteousness.
1 Corinthians 8:9But take heed, lest haply this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 13:4Love suffers long, is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
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 →