Galatians 5:13

For ye, brethren, were called to liberty; only use not your liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by your love serve one another.

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In The King James Version

For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

In Context

12Would that they who unsettle you would quite cut themselves off!

14For the whole Law is fulfilled in one commandment, even in this “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.”

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Cross References

Isaiah 61:1The spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, For Jehovah hath anointed me; He hath sent me to publish good tidings to the distressed, To bind up the broken-hearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he anointed me to preach glad tidings to the poor; he hath sent me to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty the oppressed,

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 the bondmen of righteousness.

1 Corinthians 8:9But take heed, lest this liberty of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

1 Corinthians 13:4Love suffereth long, is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not herself, 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 →

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