Galatians 5:13

For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another.

Montgomery New Testament

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 to God that those who are trying to unsettle you would even have themselves mutilated.

14For the whole Law has been fulfilled in this one precept, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

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Cross References

Luke 4:18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to the prisoners, And recovery of sight to the blind; To set at liberty those that are bruised,

John 13:14If then I have washed your feet, I the ‘Master’ and the ‘Teacher’, you also ought to wash one another’s feet,

Romans 6:18and being set free from sin, you became the slaves of righteousness -

1 Corinthians 8:9But see to it lest this right of yours become a stumbling-block to the weak.

1 Corinthians 13:4Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, 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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