13 For brethren, ye have been called unto liberty: [a]only use not your liberty as an occasion unto the flesh, but by love serve one another.

14 [b]For [c]all the Law is fulfilled in one word, which is this, (A)Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.

15 [d]If ye bite and devour one another, take heed lest ye be consumed one of another.

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 5:13 The third part of this Epistle, showing that the right use of Christian liberty consisteth in this, that being delivered from the slavery of sin and the flesh, and being obedient to the Spirit, we should serve unto one another’s salvation through love.
  2. Galatians 5:14 He propoundeth the love of our neighbor, as a mark whereunto all Christians ought to refer all their actions, and thereunto he citeth the testimony of the Law.
  3. Galatians 5:14 This particle (All) must be restrained to the second table.
  4. Galatians 5:15 An exhortation to the duties of charity, by the profit that ensueth thereof, because that no men provide worse for themselves, than they that hate one another.

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