Galatians 5:13
For ye have been called unto liberty, brethren; only use not that liberty as a pretext for carnality, but in love be subject one to another.
Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament
In The King James Version
In Context
12I wish that they who trouble you were cut off from you.
14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
Cross References
Luke 4:18“The spirit of the Lord is upon me, for the work whereunto he hath anointed me; he hath sent me to preach glad tidings to the poor; to heal the contrite in heart; to proclaim liberty to the captives; and restore sight to the blind; to send forth the bruised free from bonds;
John 13:14If therefore I have washed your feet, though the Lord and the Master; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.
Romans 6:18Emancipated then from sin, ye became servants to righteousness.
1 Corinthians 8:9But take heed that this power of yours become not an occasion of stumbling to the weak.
1 Corinthians 13:4Love is long-suffering, is kind; love envieth not; love is no vain boaster, is not inflated with pride,
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 →