Galatians 5:13

For you were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty unto an occasion to the flesh, but through divine love serve one another.

1902 William Baxter Godbey NT

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

12I would that those troubling you shall indeed cut themselves off.

14For the whole law has been fulfilled in one word, in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor with divine love as thyself.

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Cross References

Luke 4:18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because He anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor: hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim deliverance to the captives, and sight to the blind, and to set at liberty them that are bruised,

John 13:14If then I, your Lord and Master, washed your feet, you ought also to wash the feet of one another.

Romans 6:18but having been made free from sin, ye became servants unto righteousness.

1 Corinthians 8:9See lest this liberty of yours may become a stumblingblock to the weak.

1 Corinthians 13:4Divine love suffers long; divine love is kind; divine love envies not; does not make a display of 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 →

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