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4 aYou have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by law; byou have fallen from grace.  
5 For we through the Spirit eagerly await for the hope of righteousness by faith.  
6 For ain Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision avails anything, but bfaith working through love.  

Love Fulfills the Law

7 You aran well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth?  
8 This persuasion does not come from Him who calls you.
9 aA little leaven leavens the whole lump.  
10 I have confidence in you, in the Lord, that you will have no other mind; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.
11 And I, brethren, if I still preach circumcision, awhy do I still suffer persecution? Then bthe offense of the cross has ceased.  
12 aI could wish that those bwho trouble you would even cut themselves off!  
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.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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Galatians 5:6

For in Jesus Christ - By the dispensation of the Gospel all legal observances, as essential to salvation, are done away; and uncircumcision, or the Gentile state, contributes as much to salvation as circumcision or the Jewish state; they are both equally ineffectual; and nothing now avails in the sight of God but that faith ' , which is made active, or energetic, by love. God acknowledges no faith, as of the operation of his Spirit, that is not active or obedient; but the principle of all obedience to God, and beneficence to man, is love; therefore faith cannot work unless it be associated with love. Love to God produces obedience to his will: love to man worketh no ill; but, on the contrary, every act of kindness. Faith which does not work by love is either circumcision or uncircumcision, or whatever its possessor may please to call it; it is, however, nothing that will stand him in stead when God comes to take away his soul. It availeth nothing. This humble, holy, operative, obedient Love, is the grand touchstone of all human creeds and confessions of faith. Faith without this has neither soul nor operation; in the language of the Apostle James, it is dead, and can perform no function of the spiritual life, no more than a dead man can perform the duties of animal or civil life.




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