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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.
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Freedom's Two Dangers
Commentators explain that Paul is navigating the Galatians between two opposite errors. Having just argued against legalistic bondage, he immediately warns against the other extreme: using Christian freedom as an excuse for sinful self-indulgence. True freedom is neither slavery to rules nor slavery to sinful desires.
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Galatians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
For, brothers, you have been called to liberty (Galatians 5:13). This refers to freedom from Jewish rites and ceremonies (See …
Ye were called for freedom (επ' ελευθερια εκληθητε). The same point as in 5:1 made plainer by the use of επ' (on the basis of, for…
19th Century
Anglican
For.—This connecting word explains the reason for the Apostle’s severe treatment of the Judaizers.
An …
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Baptist
For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
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Like v.1, this verse is transitional and marks a new beginning. “You” is emphatic, showing that Paul is building on the confidence expressed earlie…
16th Century
Protestant
You have been called to liberty. He now proceeds to show how liberty must be used. In expounding the First Epistle to the Corinthians, we …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
For brethren, you have been called unto liberty He calls them "brethren", to testify his affection to them, and to p…
The gospel is a doctrine according to godliness (1 Timothy 6:3), and is so far from giving the least approval to sin, that it places us…
13th Century
Catholic
Having proposed an example of standing and eliminated an obstacle to it, he now establishes its mode.
First, he establishes the mode of stan…
