Galatians 5:13
For you were called to freedom, brothers, only the freedom [is] not for an occasion to the flesh, but serve one another through the love,
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In Context
12O that even they would cut themselves off who are unsettling you!
14for all the Law is fulfilled in one word—in this: “You will love your neighbor as yourself”;
Cross References
Isaiah 61:1“[The] Spirit of Lord YHWH [is] on Me, || Because YHWH anointed Me || To proclaim tidings to the humble, || He sent Me to bind the broken of heart, || To proclaim liberty to the captives, || And an opening of bands to [those] bound.
Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the LORD [is] on Me, || Because He anointed Me || To proclaim good news to the poor, || Sent Me to heal the broken of heart, || To proclaim to captives deliverance, || And to blind receiving of sight, || To send the bruised away with deliverance,
John 13:14if then I washed your feet—the LORD and the Teacher—you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
Romans 6:18and having been freed from sin, you became servants to righteousness.
1 Corinthians 8:9but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the weak,
1 Corinthians 13:4Love is long-suffering, it is kind, love does not envy, love does not vaunt 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 →