Galatians 5:13
For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
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In Context
12I would that they that unsettle you would even go beyond circumcision.
14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.
Cross References
Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening [of the prison] to them that are bound;
Luke 4:18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he anointed me to preach good tidings to the poor: He hath sent me to proclaim release to the captives, And recovering of sight to the blind, To set at liberty them that are bruised,
John 13:14If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have 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 by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to the weak.
1 Corinthians 13:4Love suffereth long, [and] is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth 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 →