Verse 13

For, brethren, you have been called to freedom; only do not use freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  For, brødre, dere er kalt til frihet; men bruk ikke friheten som en anledning for kjødet, men tjen hverandre i kjærlighet.

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  For dere ble kalt til frihet, brødre; bare ikke bruk friheten som en anledning til å tilfredsstille kjødet, men tjen hverandre i kjærlighet.

• Norsk King James

  For, brødre, dere er kalt til frihet; bare bruk ikke friheten som en anledning til kjødets begjær, men tjen hverandre i kjærlighet.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Dere er kalt til frihet, brødre! Bare bruk ikke friheten som en anledning for kjødet, men tjen hverandre i kjærlighet.

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  For dere, brødre, er kalt til frihet; bare bruk ikke friheten som et påskudd til kjødet, men tjen hverandre ved kjærligheten.

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  For dere, brødre, er kalt til frihet; bruk bare ikke friheten som en anledning for kjødet, men tjen hverandre i kjærlighet.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  For dere, brødre, er kalt til frihet; bruk bare ikke friheten som en anledning for kjødet, men tjen hverandre i kjærlighet.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  For, brødre, har dere blitt kalt til frihet; bruk imidlertid friheten ikke som en anledning for kjødet, men tjen hverandre i kjærlighet.

• gpt4.5-preview

  For dere er kalt til frihet, brødre; bruk bare ikke friheten til en anledning for kjøttet, men tjen hverandre i kjærlighet.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  For dere er kalt til frihet, brødre; bruk bare ikke friheten til en anledning for kjøttet, men tjen hverandre i kjærlighet.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  For dere, brødre, er kalt til frihet; bare bruk ikke friheten som en anledning til kjøttet, men tjen hverandre i kjærlighet.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

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

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  For dere, brødre, ble kalt til frihet; bare bruk ikke friheten som et påskudd for kjødet, men tjen hverandre i kjærlighet.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  I ere jo kaldte til Frihed, Brødre! kun misbruger ikke Friheden til en Anledning for Kjødet, men værer i Kjærlighed hverandres Tjenere.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

• KJV 1769 norsk

  For, brødre, dere er kalt til frihet; bruk bare ikke friheten som et påskudd for kjødet, men tjen hverandre i kjærlighet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  For dere, brødre, ble kalt til frihet. Bruk bare ikke friheten som anledning for kjødet, men tjen hverandre i kjærlighet.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  For dere ble kalt til frihet, brødre; bare bruk ikke friheten som en anledning til kjødet, men tjen hverandre gjennom kjærlighet.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  For dere, brødre, er kalt til frihet. Bruk bare ikke friheten som anledning for kjødet, men tjen hverandre i kjærlighet.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Dere, brødre, er kalt til frihet; bruk bare ikke deres frihet som en anledning for kjødet, men tjen hverandre i kjærlighet.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Brethre ye were called in to (libertie) only let not youre libertie be an occasion vnto the flesshe but in love serve one another.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But brethre, ye are called vnto liberty, onely let not youre libertie be an occasion vnto the flesh, but by loue serue one another.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  For brethren, ye haue bene called vnto libertie: onely vse not your libertie as an occasion vnto the flesh, but by loue serue one another.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  For brethren, ye haue ben called into libertie: Only let not libertie be an occasio to the flesshe, but by loue serue one another.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  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.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,

• American Standard Version (1901)

  For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only [use] not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.

• World English Bible (2000)

  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.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  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.

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 9:19 : 19 For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more.
• 1 Pet 2:16 : 16 As free, yet not using liberty as a cloak for vice, but as bondservants of God.
• 1 Cor 8:9 : 9 But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.
• Gal 5:14 : 14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
• Rom 15:1-2 : 1 We who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. 2 Let each of us please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.
• Isa 61:1 : 1 The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach good tidings to the meek; He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
• Gal 4:5-7 : 5 To redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption as sons. 6 And because you are sons, God has sent forth the Spirit of His Son into your hearts, crying, 'Abba, Father.' 7 Therefore you are no longer a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
• 1 Cor 13:4-7 : 4 Love is patient, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast, is not proud, 5 Does not behave itself rudely, does not seek its own, is not easily angered, keeps no record of wrongs; 6 Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; 7 Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
• Rom 6:18-22 : 18 And having been set free from sin, you became servants of righteousness. 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. For just as you presented your members as servants of uncleanness and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as servants of righteousness for holiness. 20 For when you were servants of sin, you were free from righteousness. 21 What fruit did you have then in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death. 22 But now, having been freed from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.
• Luke 4:18 : 18 The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
• Gal 6:2 : 2 Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
• Eph 5:21 : 21 Submitting to one another in the fear of God.
• 2 Pet 2:19 : 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a man is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage.
• John 8:32-36 : 32 And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33 They answered him, We are Abraham's descendants, and have never been in bondage to anyone: how can you say, You shall be made free? 34 Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Whoever commits sin is a slave of sin. 35 And the slave does not abide in the house forever: but the Son abides forever. 36 If the Son therefore shall make you free, you shall be free indeed.
• John 13:14-15 : 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.
• Acts 20:35 : 35 I have shown you in every way, by laboring like this, that you must support the weak. And remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that He said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
• Mark 10:43-45 : 43 But it shall not be so among you: but whoever desires to be great among you shall be your servant: 44 And whoever of you desires to be first shall be servant of all. 45 For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life a ransom for many.
• 2 Cor 4:5 : 5 For we do not preach ourselves, but Christ Jesus the Lord; and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
• Gal 4:22-5:1 : 22 For it is written that Abraham had two sons: one by a bondwoman, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born according to the flesh, but he of the freewoman was through promise. 24 These things are symbolic. For these are the two covenants: the one from Mount Sinai which gives birth to bondage, which is Hagar. 25 For this Hagar is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and corresponds to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26 But the Jerusalem above is free, which is the mother of us all. 27 For it is written: 'Rejoice, O barren, you who do not bear! Break forth and shout, you who are not in labor! For the desolate has many more children than she who has a husband.' 28 Now we, brethren, as Isaac was, are children of promise. 29 But, as he who was born according to the flesh then persecuted him who was born according to the Spirit, even so it is now. 30 Nevertheless what does the Scripture say? 'Cast out the bondwoman and her son, for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman.' 31 So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman but of the free. 1 Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not become entangled again with the yoke of bondage.
• 1 John 3:16-19 : 16 By this we perceive the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. 17 But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his compassion from him, how does the love of God abide in him? 18 My little children, let us not love in word or in tongue, but in deed and in truth. 19 And by this we know that we are of the truth, and shall assure our hearts before him.
• Jude 1:4 : 4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lewdness and denying the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Jas 2:15-17 : 15 If a brother or sister is naked and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, Depart in peace, be warmed and filled, but you do not give them the things needed for the body, what does it profit? 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
• Jude 1:10-12 : 10 But these speak evil of whatever they do not know; and whatever they know naturally, like brute beasts, in these things they corrupt themselves. 11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain, have run greedily in the error of Balaam for profit, and perished in the rebellion of Korah. 12 These are spots in your love feasts, while they feast with you without fear, serving only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried about by the winds; late autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, pulled up by the roots;
• Gal 5:22 : 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
• 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 And I will very gladly spend and be spent for you; though the more abundantly I love you, the less I am loved.