13For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
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As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves. …
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
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 th…
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