Galatians 5:13

Believers are called to freedom, but must not use it to indulge the flesh; instead they should serve one another in love. Christian liberty is freedom for love, not for sin.

Cross-references · 26

• 1 Pet 2:16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
• 1 Cor 9:19For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
• 1 Cor 8:9But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
• Rom 15:1–2We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• Gal 5:14For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
• Eph 5:21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
• Rom 6:18–22Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
• Gal 6:2Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
• Gal 4:5–7To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
• 1 Jn 3:16–19Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
• Isa 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
• Jude 1:4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord God, and our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Cor 13:4–7Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
• Jas 2:15–17If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
• Acts 20:35I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
• 2 Cor 4:5For we preach not ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves your servants for Jesus’ sake.
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
• 2 Pet 2:19While they promise them liberty, they themselves are the servants of corruption: for of whom a man is overcome, of the same is he brought in bondage.
• John 8:32–36And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
• Jude 1:10–12But these speak evil of those things which they know not: but what they know naturally, as brute beasts, in those things they corrupt themselves.
• Mark 10:43–45But so shall it not be among you: but whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister:
• Luke 4:18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,
• Gal 4:22For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman.
• John 13:14–15If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.
• 1 Th 1:3Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
• 2 Cor 12:15And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I be loved.

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