17Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death.
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 12-18)In these verses the apostle draws two inferences from what he had said about the Old and New Testament:— I. Concerning the duty of the ministers of the gospel to use great plainness or clearness of speech. They ought not, like Moses, to put a veil upon their faces, or obscure and darken those things which they should make plain. The gospel is a more clear dispensation than the law; the things of G…
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