Galatians 5:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹³For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

Galatians 5:13 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Peter 2:16
As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
1 Corinthians 8:9
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
Romans 15:1-2
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. …
Galatians 5:14
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-26)

In the latter part of this chapter the apostle comes to exhort these Christians to serious practical godliness, as the best antidote against the snares of the false teachers. Two things especially he presses upon them:— I. That they should not strive with one another, but love one another. He tells them (Gal. 5:13) that they had been called unto liberty, and he would have them to stand fast in the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. The “ye” is emphatical, from its position in the Greek, “Ye brethren”; as opposed to those legalists “who trouble you.” unto liberty--The Greek expresses, “on a footing of liberty.” The state or condition in which ye have been called to salvation, is one of liberty. Gospel liberty consists in three things, freedom from the Mosaic yoke, from sin, and from slavish fear. only, &c.--Translate, “On…