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13 For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only ado not use liberty as an bopportunity for the flesh, but cthrough love serve one another.  
14 For aall the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: b“You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”  
15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!

Walking in the Spirit

16 I say then: aWalk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.  
17 For athe flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, bso that you do not do the things that you wish.  
18 But aif you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.  
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What Does Galatians 5:15 Mean?



Galatians 5:13-15

If we are self-serving and destructive, we will end up tearing each other apart, but if we serve one another in love, we will build the church. After He redeemed us, God gave us great freedom of mind, action, and choice. He has freed us from the curse of the law—the death penalty. He has freed us from the fear of death, from enslavement to sin, and so on.

Then He says, once we are freed, we need to use this freedom to serve. This is where the idea of being a slave of righteousness enters the picture. He severed our relationship from our former master (sin, Satan, the world), freed us, and then took us into slavery to Himself and to serving our brethren in righteousness.

Of course, as Paul said here, this fulfills the intent of God's law: love, outgoing concern, the way of give.

Richard T. Ritenbaugh
It Takes a Church

Related Topics: Love | Love as Essence of God's Law | Love as the Way of Outgoing Concern | Love for Brethren | Self Seeking | Self Serving | Slave of Righteousness | Slave of Sin | Slave of Unrighteousness | Slavery | Slavery to Satan | Slavery to Sin | Way of Get | Way of Give




Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Galatians 5:15:

Matthew 5:43-44
John 3:6
John 18:36
Romans 12:19-21
Jude 1:4


 
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