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Galatians 5:13

WEB

13For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

KJV

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

BSB

13For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.

FBV

13[+] You, my brothers and sisters, were called to freedom! Just don't use your freedom as an excuse to indulge your sinful human nature—instead serve one another in love.

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Extra References

1 Peter 2:16

16Live as free people, yet not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

1 Corinthians 9:19

19For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.

1 Corinthians 8:9

9But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

Romans 15:1-2

1[+] Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.

Galatians 5:14

14For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Ephesians 5:21

21subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Romans 6:18-22

18Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness.

19I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh; for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. 20For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. 21What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.

Galatians 6:2

2Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Galatians 4:5-7

5that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as children. 6And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba,[+] Father!” 7So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

Isaiah 61:1

1The Lord GOD’s Spirit is on me, because the LORD 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,