11 [a]And brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? Then is the slander of the cross abolished.

12 [b]Would to God they were even cut off which do [c]disquiet you.

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

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 5:11 He willeth them to consider how that he seeketh not his own profit in this matter, seeing that he could eschew the hatred of men, if he would join Judaism with Christianity.
  2. Galatians 5:12 An example of a true Pastor inflamed with the zeal of God’s glory and love of his flock.
  3. Galatians 5:12 For they that preach the Law, cause men’s consciences always to tremble.
  4. 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.

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