Combined Bible Commentary
Galatians 5:14
VERSE 14. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
VERSE 14. For all the Law is fulfilled in one word.
VERSE 14. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
VERSE 14. For all the Law is fulfilled in one word.
Verse 14. _FOR ALL THE LAW_] Which respects our duty to our fellows, is _fulfilled_-is comprehended, in _one word: Thou shalt_ _love thy neighbour as thyself_. Matthew 19:19, Matthew 19:19, and _"_...
FOR ALL THE LAW IS FULFILLED ... - That is, this expresses the substance of the whole law; it embraces and comprises all. The apostle of course here alludes to the Law in regard to our duty to our fel...
III. THE WALK OF THE JUSTIFIED BELIEVER, AS NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Stand fast! Be not entangled! (Galatians 5:1)_ 2. Exhortations and the law of love. (Galatians 5:7) 3....
GALATIANS 5:13 TO GALATIANS 6:10. Practical appendix to the epistle; in the form of guarding the doctrine of free grace against antinomian abuse....
First safeguard. They are free indeed, and as Christians are done with Law; but love will save them from indulging lower impulses. Love (as Jesus taught, Mark 12:31 and parallels) includes everything...
AN OLD STORY AND A NEW MEANING (Galatians 4:21-31 ; Galatians 5:1) 5:1 Tell me this--you who want to be subject to the law, you listen to it being read to you, don't you? Well, then, it stands writte...
As for you, brothers, it was for freedom that you were called, only you must not use this freedom as a bridgehead through which the worst side of human nature can invade you, but in love you must serv...
FULFILLED. Greek. _pieroo_. App-125. WORD. Greek. _logos_. App-121. LOVE. Greek. _agapao_. App-135. Quoted from Leviticus 19:18....
-You would go back to bondage; there is a servitude which constitutes liberty. You desire to be under the law; there is a law the law of love to which ye will do well to submit yourselves; for all the...
13–6:10. PRACTICAL. LIBERTY IS NOT LICENSE BUT SERVICE; NOT THE FLESH BUT THE SPIRIT MUST BE THE AIM OF THE BELIEVER...
13–15. _I say, you were called for freedom. But do not forget that true freedom implies service to others_ (Galatians 5:13) I speak so strongly about those that are confounding you, for _you_ were cal...
ἘΝ ἙΝῚ ΛΌΓΩΙ. Marcion read ἐν ὑμῖν instead. Both readings are found in D*G. 14. ὁ γὰρ πᾶς νόμος. γάρ justifies service to one another. This is the real fulfilment of the Law, which you have been wanti...
ΠΕΠΛΉΡΩΤΑΙ _perf. ind. pass. от_ ΠΛΗΡΌΩ (G4137) выполнять, ΑΓΑΠΉΣΕΙΣ _fut. ind. act. от_ ΑΓΑΠΆΩ (G25) любить (TLNT; TDNT; EDNT). ΠΛΗΣΊΟΝ (G4139) _асс. sing._ ближний....
B. LIMITATIONS AND POWER OF FREEDOM Galatians 5:13-26 1. No fleshly License Galatians 5:13-15 TEXT 5:13-15 (13) For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion...
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. ALL THE LAW, [ ho (G3588) pas (G3956) nomos (G3551)] - 'the whole law.' Love to God is pre-supposed...
1 This paragraph is the summary and conclusion of the doctrinal argument. Tersely, he puts the case. Which shall it be _ Christ _ or _ circumcision_!' No half hearted allegiance here, no serving of tw...
5:14 thyself; (g-17) See Leviticus 19:18 ....
The real moral substance of the Mosaic Law was the gospel principle of love: cp. Matthew 22:40; Romans 13:10....
THE NATURE OF CHRISTIAN LIBERTY 1-12. The futility of seeking justification by attempting to comply with the demands of the Mosaic Law; the inconsistency of works and faith as methods of salvation. P...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 5 CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE V1 We have freedom because Christ has made us free. Be certain that you remain free. You must not allow yourselv...
This law is in Leviticus 19:18. And Jesus taught about it in Luke 10:25-37. ‘Love other people’ was the basic purpose of all the *Jewish laws. If Christians behave in the right way, they will carry ou...
This verse is another of the marked points of contact between this Epistle and that to the Romans. The theme of it is worked out at length in Romans 13:8. THY NEIGHBOUR. — In the original command thi...
(13-15) The Judaisers would deserve such a fate; for they are undoing the whole object with which you were called. You were called, not to legal bondage, but to _freedom._ This caution only is needed:...
CHAPTER 22 THE PERILS OF LIBERTY. Galatians 5:13 OUR analysis has drawn a strong line across the middle of this chapter. At Galatians 5:13 the Apostle turns his mind in the ethical direction. He has...
πεπλήρωται. MS. authority is decisive in favour of this perfect against the present πληροῦται. The perfect is likewise adopted in the parallel passage Romans 13:8, ὁ ἀγαπῶν νόμον πεπλήρωκεν. For the v...
FREEDOM IS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF CHRISTIAN LIFE, TO BE USED NOT FOR SELF-INDULGENCE, BUT FOR WILLING SERVICE TO THE LAW OF LOVE....
PRODUCE THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT Galatians 5:13 That Christ has freed us from the Law as a means of salvation does not free us from moral restraint, but brings us under the constraint of a higher law,...
The whole law of liberty is stated in the sentences, "For freedom did Christ set us free," "stand fast therefore," and "be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage." He then refers first to circumcis...
(13) For (h) all the law is fulfilled in one word, [even] in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. (13) He sets forth the love of our neighbour, as a mark unto which all Christians ought to...
All the law, as far as it regards our duty to our neighbour, is contained in this text of the apostle; he says the same in his epistle to the Romans, Chap. xiii. He that loves his neighbour has fulfil...
(6) For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. (7) Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? (8) This...
Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
14._For all the law_. There is a contrast in this verse, though not plainly stated, yet evidently to be understood, between Paul’s exhortation and the doctrine of the false apostles. While they insist...
It is in this liberty, the liberty of Christ, alluding to the free woman and Jerusalem above, that they were to stand fast, and not put themselves again under the yoke of the law. If they took that gr...
FOR ALL THE LAW IS FULFILLED IN ONE WORD,.... Not the ceremonial law, to which acts of mercy, kindness, and love are opposed, and from which they are distinguished; but the law of the decalogue given...
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, _even_ in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. Ver. 14. _For all the law_] _i.e._ All the second table. The Scripture often appropriateth the law...
_Ye have been called_ By the gospel; _into liberty_ From the bondage of the Mosaic ceremonies, as well as of sin and misery: _only use not liberty for an occasion of the flesh_ So as to nourish or gra...
ALL THE LAW; the requirements of the law with regard to our fellow-men....
FOR ALL THE LAW IS FULFILLED IN ONE WORD, EVEN IN THIS: THOU SHALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF....
The service of love as opposed to the service of the flesh:...
LIBERTY TO BE PRACTICED (vs.1-6) Chapter 4 dealt with the perfect freedom introduced by God Himself through Christ, freedom given to all who have been redeemed by His precious blood, freedom from the...
I COULD WISH THAT THOSE WHO TROUBLE YOU WOULD EVEN CUT THEMSELVES OFF! Judiazing teachers should be cut off. Romans 16:17 - "Mark them" 2 Timothy 3:5 - "turn away" Titus 1:10-11 - "mouths stopped...
13-15 The gospel is a doctrine according to godliness, 1 Timothy 6:3, and is so far from giving the least countenance to sin, that it lays us under the strongest obligation to avoid and subdue it. Th...
The whole will of God, containing our duty towards men, is reducible to this one thing, _love; _ for whatsoever God hath commanded us to do towards men, is but a brauch from this root, and must flow f...
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself....
Tertullian Against Marcion Book V Now, if none other but the Creator shall be found to execute judgment, it follows that only He, who has determined on the cessation of the law, shall be able to cond...
Galatians 5:14 For G1063 all G3956 law G3551 fulfilled G4137 (G5743) in G1722 one G1520 word G3056 in...
‘For you, brothers,were called for freedom. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity (a base of operations) for the flesh to express itself, but through love be servants to one another. For the...
FREEDOM IS NOT TO BE MISINTERPRETED AS LICENCE. THEY MUST WALK IN LOVE AND BY THE SPIRIT (GALATIANS 5:13). Paul now goes on to deal with the charge that the Gospel he is presenting gives men licence t...
_Warning' against the Abuse of Freedom, and Exhortation to Brotherly Love._ In the spirit of true Christian wisdom and moderation, the Apostle now warns the readers against the danger of abusing Chri...
Galatians 5:14. FOR THE ENTIRE LAW IS (hath been and is) FULFILLED IN ONE WORD (even), IN THIS: THOU s HALT LOVE THY NEIGHBOR AS THYSELF. The law commands supreme love to God (in the first table), and...
EVEN IN THIS (εν τω). Just the article with εν, "in the," but it points at the quotation from Leviticus 19:18. Jews (Luke 10:29) confined "neighbour" (πλησιον) to Jews. Paul uses here a striking par...
Galatians 5:13. _For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another._ Do not turn your liberty into license. The apostle...
Remember, beloved brethren, that the Epistle to the Galatians is one in which Paul, with especial clearness, proves the doctrine of justification by faith alone. So much is this the case, that the fam...
Galatians 5:1. Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ had made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage. Behold, I Paul say unto you, that if ye be circumcised, Chris...
Galatians 5:1. _Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage._ «You are not under the law, but under grace. Do not subje...
CONTENTS: Liberty of the believer in Christ, apart from the law. Conflict of flesh and the Spirit. Christian character the result of the Spirit's work not self-effort. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit...
Galatians 5:1. _Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,_ by the redemption he has procured through the shedding of his own most precious blood. The liberty of your cele...
FOR THE WHOLE LAW. "The Law of Moses is _condensed_ in this one commandment: Love your fellowman as yourself. You cannot please God without doing this!!!" Compare Matthew 22:39; Romans 13:8; 1 John 4:...
_For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself._ THE FULFILLING OF THE LAW I. Love is of perpetual obligation. II. A true response to the obligati...
CHAPTER 5 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. S. Paul proceeds to urge the Galatians not to submit to the yoke of the Old Law, lest they be deprived of the fruits of Christ's righteousness, since in Him neit...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 5:13. USE NOT LIBERTY FOR AN OCCASION TO THE FLESH.—Do not give the flesh the handle or pretext for its indulgence, which it eagerly seeks for. BY LOVE SERV...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 5:1 GALATIANS 5:2 BEHOLD, I PAUL SAY UNTO YOU (ἴδε, ἐγὼ Παῦλος λώγω ὑμῖν); _lo_,_ I Paul say unto you. _The adverbial exclamation ἴδε, found in St. Paul's writings on...
Shall we turn now to Galatians chapter five. The whole concept is: how do I establish a righteous standing before God? Can I be righteous by keeping the law? Or am I righteous by my simple faith in Je...
1 Timothy 1:5; James 2:8; Leviticus 19:18; Leviticus 19:34; Luke 10
All the law [ο π α ς ν ο μ ο ς]. More correctly, the whole law. Comp. Matthew 22:40. Is fulfilled [π ε π λ η ρ ω τ α ι]. Has been fulfilled. Comp. Romans 13:8. The meaning is not embraced in, or summe...
THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT Galatians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Much is written about the Holy Spirit in the Word of God. The Epistles of Paul are freighted with many marvelous messages relative to the Sp...
THE GRACES OF THE SPIRIT'S INDWELLING Galatians 5:14 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The works of the flesh are manifest. It is not necessary for anyone to draw upon his imagination to describe the works of...
For all the law is fulfilled in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself — inasmuch as none can do this without loving God, 1 John 4:12; and the love of God and man includes all perfection. Levi...
Here our apostle enforces the foregoing exhortation to love and serve one another, with. forcible argument or motive, namely, because love is the fulfilling of the law; that is, 1. it is the fulfilli...