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Practice Love

13 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters;[a] only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh,[b] but through love serve one another.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Galatians 5:13 tn Grk “brothers.” See note on the phrase “brothers and sisters” in 1:11.
  2. Galatians 5:13 tn Grk “as an opportunity for the flesh”; BDAG 915 s.v. σάρξ 2.c.α states: “In Paul’s thought esp., all parts of the body constitute a totality known as σ. or flesh, which is dominated by sin to such a degree that wherever flesh is, all forms of sin are likew. present, and no good thing can live in the σάρξGal 5:13, 24; …Opp. τὸ πνεῦμαGal 3:3; 5:16, 17ab; 6:8ab.”
  3. Galatians 5:13 tn It is possible that the verb δουλεύετε (douleuete) should be translated “serve one another in a humble manner” here, referring to the way in which slaves serve their masters (see L&N 35.27).