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Freedom from the Law's Curse
Commentators agree that being "led by the Spirit" means you are no longer under the law as a system for earning salvation or as a source of condemnation. Scholars like Calvin and Spurgeon explain that the law's role changes from a terrifying master to a helpful guide. Your standing with God is based on the Spirit's work, not your perfect performance, freeing you from the law's curse and the bondage of fear.
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Galatians
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Albert Barnes
On Galatians 5:18
18th Century
Theologian
But if you are led of the Spirit. If you submit to the teachings and guidance of the Holy Spirit.
You are not under the law…
AT Robertson
On Galatians 5:18
Under the law (υπο νομον). Instead of "under the flesh" as one might expect. See Ga 3:2-6 for contrast between law and spirit. The…
Charles Ellicott
On Galatians 5:18
19th Century
Bishop
You are not under the law.—Strictly, You are not under law—law in the abstract. The flesh and law are correlative terms: to be fr…
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Charles Spurgeon
On Galatians 5:18
19th Century
Preacher
But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law.
The Spirit never brings the soul into bondage; the terrors and the fears …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On Galatians 5:18
The final verse of this section is best taken as a summary in which Paul reminds the Galatians that, though he is now talking of the need to live a…
John Calvin
On Galatians 5:18
16th Century
Theologian
But if you are led by the Spirit. In the Lord's way, believers are prone to stumble. But let them not be discouraged because they are unab…
John Gill
On Galatians 5:18
17th Century
Pastor
But if you be led by the Spirit
That is, of God, who is the guide and leader of his people. It is a metaphor taken f…
Matthew Henry
On Galatians 5:16–26
17th Century
Minister
If it is our care to act under the guidance and power of the blessed Spirit, though we may not be freed from the stirrings and oppositions of the c…