🕊️WEB · Galatians 5:13
What does Galatians 5:13 mean?
"For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another."
— Galatians 5:13 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
I have confidence toward you in the Lord that you will think no other way. But he who troubles you will bear his judgment, whoever he is.
But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.
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