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

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

16 [d]Then I say, (B)Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. Galatians 5:14 This particle (All) must be restrained to the second table.
  3. 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.
  4. Galatians 5:16 He acknowledgeth the great weakness of the godly, for that they are but in part regenerate: but he willeth them to remember that they are endued with the Spirit of God, which hath delivered them from the slavery of sin, and so of the Law so far forth as it is the virtue of sin, that they should not give themselves to lusts.

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