Galatians 5:13

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Practice Love For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.

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  • 1 Cor 9:19 : 19 For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.
  • 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.
  • 1 Cor 8:9 : 9 But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.
  • Gal 5:14 : 14 For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely,“You must love your neighbor as yourself.”
  • Rom 15:1-2 : 1 Exhortation for the Strong to Help the Weak But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good to build him up.
  • Isa 61:1 : 1 The Lord Will Rejuvenate His People The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is upon me, because the LORD has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,
  • Gal 4:5-7 : 5 to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights. 6 And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, who calls“Abba! Father!” 7 So you are no longer a slave but a son, and if you are a son, then you are also an heir through God.
  • 1 Cor 13:4-7 : 4 Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up. 5 It is not rude, it is not self-serving, it is not easily angered or resentful. 6 It is not glad about injustice, but rejoices in the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
  • Rom 6:18-22 : 18 and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness. 19 (I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification. 20 For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness. 21 So what benefit did you then reap from those things that you are now ashamed of? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.
  • Luke 4:18 : 18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,
  • Gal 6:2 : 2 Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
  • Eph 5:21 : 21 and submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
  • 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.
  • John 8:32-36 : 32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” 33 “We are descendants of Abraham,” they replied,“and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say,‘You will become free’?” 34 Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin. 35 The slave does not remain in the family forever, but the son remains forever. 36 So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.
  • John 13:14-15 : 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example– you should do just as I have done for you.
  • Acts 20:35 : 35 By all these things, I have shown you that by working in this way we must help the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said,‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
  • Mark 10:43-45 : 43 But it is not this way among you. Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant, 44 and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of all. 45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
  • 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus’ sake.
  • Gal 4:22-5:1 : 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman. 23 But one, the son by the slave woman, was born by natural descent, while the other, the son by the free woman, was born through the promise. 24 These things may be treated as an allegory, for these women represent two covenants. One is from Mount Sinai bearing children for slavery; this is Hagar. 25 Now Hagar represents Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present Jerusalem, for she is in slavery with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother. 27 For it is written:“Rejoice, O barren woman who does not bear children; break forth and shout, you who have no birth pains, because the children of the desolate woman are more numerous than those of the woman who has a husband.” 28 But you, brothers and sisters, are children of the promise like Isaac. 29 But just as at that time the one born by natural descent persecuted the one born according to the Spirit, so it is now. 30 But what does the scripture say?“Throw out the slave woman and her son, for the son of the slave woman will not share the inheritance with the son” of the free woman. 31 Therefore, brothers and sisters, we are not children of the slave woman but of the free woman. 1 Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.
  • 1 John 3:16-19 : 16 We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians. 17 But whoever has the world’s possessions and sees his fellow Christian in need and shuts off his compassion against him, how can the love of God reside in such a person? 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue but in deed and truth. 19 And by this we will know that we are of the truth and will convince our conscience in his presence,
  • Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have secretly slipped in among you– men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
  • Jas 2:15-17 : 15 If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them,“Go in peace, keep warm and eat well,” but you do not give them what the body needs, what good is it? 17 So also faith, if it does not have works, is dead being by itself.
  • Jude 1:10-12 : 10 But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend. 11 Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah’s rebellion. 12 These men are dangerous reefs at your love feasts, feasting without reverence, feeding only themselves. They are waterless clouds, carried along by the winds; autumn trees without fruit– twice dead, uprooted;
  • Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

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    1Freedom of the Believer For freedom Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be subject again to the yoke of slavery.

  • Gal 5:14-18
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    14For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely,“You must love your neighbor as yourself.”

    15However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

    16But I say, live by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh.

    17For the flesh has desires that are opposed to the Spirit, and the Spirit has desires that are opposed to the flesh, for these are in opposition to each other, so that you cannot do what you want.

    18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • 1 Pet 2:16
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    16Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God’s slaves.

  • 1 Cor 7:21-23
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    21Were you called as a slave? Do not worry about it. But if indeed you are able to be free, make the most of the opportunity.

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  • Rom 13:14
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    14Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

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    2Carry one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.

  • 1 Cor 8:9
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    9But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.

  • Rom 14:13
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    13Exhortation for the Strong not to Destroy the Weak Therefore we must not pass judgment on one another, but rather determine never to place an obstacle or a trap before a brother or sister.

  • Rom 6:18-20
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    18and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.

    19(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

    20For when you were slaves of sin, you were free with regard to righteousness.

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    8Exhortation to Love Neighbors Owe no one anything, except to love one another, for the one who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

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    14For sin will have no mastery over you, because you are not under law but under grace.

    15The Believer’s Enslavement to God’s Righteousness What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Absolutely not!

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    4Now this matter arose because of the false brothers with false pretenses who slipped in unnoticed to spy on our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, to make us slaves.

  • Rom 8:12-13
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    12So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

    13(for if you live according to the flesh, you will die), but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body you will live.

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    16no longer as a slave, but more than a slave, as a dear brother. He is especially so to me, and even more so to you now, both humanly speaking and in the Lord.

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    5For when we were in the flesh, the sinful desires, aroused by the law, were active in the members of our body to bear fruit for death.

    6But now we have been released from the law, because we have died to what controlled us, so that we may serve in the new life of the Spirit and not under the old written code.

  • Gal 5:23-24
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    23gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

    24Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

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    15For if your brother or sister is distressed because of what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy by your food someone for whom Christ died.

    16Therefore do not let what you consider good be spoken of as evil.

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    13For I do not say this so there would be relief for others and suffering for you, but as a matter of equality.

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    12If you sin against your brothers or sisters in this way and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

    13For this reason, if food causes my brother or sister to sin, I will never eat meat again, so that I may not cause one of them to sin.

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    22But now, freed from sin and enslaved to God, you have your benefit leading to sanctification, and the end is eternal life.

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    13For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

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    26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.

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    22You have purified your souls by obeying the truth in order to show sincere mutual love. So love one another earnestly from a pure heart.

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    12Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom.

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    10Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.

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    9Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

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  • Gal 5:4
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    4You who are trying to be declared righteous by the law have been alienated from Christ; you have fallen away from grace!

  • Rom 12:5
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    5so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another.

  • 1 Cor 10:29
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    29I do not mean yours but the other person’s. For why is my freedom being judged by another’s conscience?

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    12Therefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its desires,

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    10Be devoted to one another with mutual love, showing eagerness in honoring one another.