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 freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
• 1 Cor 9:19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
• 1 Cor 8:9But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
• Rom 15:1–2Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
• Gal 5:14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
• Eph 5:21subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
• Rom 6:18–22Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.
• Gal 6:2Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
• Gal 4:5–7that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children.
• 1 Jn 3:16–19By this we know love, because he laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.
• Isa 61:1The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• Jude 1:4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.
• 1 Cor 13:4–7Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
• Jas 2:15–17And if a brother or sister is naked and in lack of daily food,
• Acts 20:35In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
• 2 Cor 4:5For we don’t preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake;
• Gal 5:22But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
• 2 Pet 2:19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.
• John 8:32–36You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
• Jude 1:10–12But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.
• Mark 10:43–45But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant.
• Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
• Gal 4:22For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the servant, and one by the free woman.
• John 13:14–15If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
• 1 Th 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
• 2 Cor 12:15I will most gladly spend and be spent for your souls. If I love you more abundantly, am I loved the less?

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