Galatians 5:13

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Galatians 5:11–15 · Berean Standard Bible

11 Now, brothers, if I am still preaching circumcision, why am I still being persecuted? In that case the offense of the cross has been abolished.

12 As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!

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

14 The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

15 But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

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Galatians 5:1

It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not be encumbered once more by a yoke of slavery.

Galatians 4:5

to redeem those under the law, that we might receive our adoption as sons.

Galatians 4:6

And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”

Galatians 4:7

So you are no longer a slave, but a son; and since you are a son, you are also an heir through God.

Galatians 4:22

For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.

Galatians 4:23

His son by the slave woman was born according to the flesh, but his son by the free woman was born through the promise.

Galatians 4:24

These things serve as illustrations, for the women represent two covenants. One covenant is from Mount Sinai and bears children into slavery: This is Hagar.

Galatians 4:25

Now Hagar stands for Mount Sinai in Arabia and corresponds to the present-day Jerusalem, because she is in slavery with her children.

Galatians 4:26

But the Jerusalem above is free, and she is our mother.

Galatians 4:27

For it is written: “Rejoice, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband.”

Galatians 4:28

Now you, brothers, like Isaac, are children of promise.

Galatians 4:29

At that time, however, the son born by the flesh persecuted the son born by the Spirit. It is the same now.

Galatians 4:30

But what does the Scripture say? “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with the free woman’s son.”

Galatians 4:31

Therefore, brothers, we are not children of the slave woman, but of the free woman.

Isaiah 61:1

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,

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 proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,

John 8:32

Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

John 8:33

“We are Abraham’s descendants,” they answered. “We have never been slaves to anyone. How can You say we will be set free?”

John 8:34

Jesus replied, “Truly, truly, I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin.

John 8:35

A slave is not a permanent member of the family, but a son belongs to it forever.

John 8:36

So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.

Romans 6:18

You have been set free from sin and have become slaves to righteousness.

Romans 6:19

I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh. Just as you used to offer the parts of your body in slavery to impurity and to escalating wickedness, so now offer them in slavery to righteousness leading to holiness.

Romans 6:20

For when you were slaves to sin, you were free of obligation to righteousness.

Romans 6:21

What fruit did you reap at that time from the things of which you are now ashamed? The outcome of those things is death.

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.

1 Corinthians 8:9

Be careful, however, that your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.

1 Peter 2:16

Live in freedom, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.

2 Peter 2:19

They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves to depravity. For a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.

Jude 1:4

For certain men have crept in among you unnoticed—ungodly ones who were designated long ago for condemnation. They turn the grace of our God into a license for immorality, and they deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

Jude 1:10

These men, however, slander what they do not understand, and like irrational animals, they will be destroyed by the things they do instinctively.

Jude 1:11

Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.

Jude 1:12

These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.

Galatians 5:14

The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

Galatians 5:22

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Galatians 6:2

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

Mark 10:43

But it shall not be this way among you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

Mark 10:44

and whoever wants to be first must be the slave of all.

Mark 10:45

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.”

John 13:14

So if I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.

John 13:15

I have set you an example so that you should do as I have done for you.

Acts 20:35

In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Romans 15:1

We who are strong ought to bear with the shortcomings of the weak and not to please ourselves.

Romans 15:2

Each of us should please his neighbor for his good, to build him up.

1 Corinthians 9:19

Though I am free of obligation to anyone, I make myself a slave to everyone, to win as many as possible.

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

1 Corinthians 13:5

It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.

1 Corinthians 13:6

Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth.

1 Corinthians 13:7

It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

2 Corinthians 4:5

For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.

2 Corinthians 12:15

And for the sake of your souls, I will most gladly spend my money and myself. If I love you more, will you love me less?

1 Thessalonians 1:3

and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

James 2:15

Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food.

James 2:16

If one of you tells him, “Go in peace; stay warm and well fed,” but does not provide for his physical needs, what good is that?

James 2:17

So too, faith by itself, if it does not result in action, is dead.

1 John 3:16

By this we know what love is: Jesus laid down His life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.

1 John 3:17

If anyone with earthly possessions sees his brother in need, but withholds his compassion from him, how can the love of God abide in him?

1 John 3:18

Little children, let us love not in word and speech, but in action and truth.

1 John 3:19

And by this we will know that we belong to the truth, and will assure our hearts in His presence: