For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
13. Ye have been called to liberty. He now proceeds to show in what way liberty must be used. In the course of expounding the First Epistle to the Corinthians, we have pointed out that liberty is one thing, and that the use of it is another thing.
Christ has freed you from the curse of the law, but not from the obligation of it. Do not seize your Christian liberty as a license for the flesh and quarrels with your brothers; rather, serve one another in love, maintaining that mutual affection which binds you together despite your differences.
AI summary
Commenting on Galatians 5:13-26
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 to Moses on Mount Sinai, and by him to the people of the Jews; and intends either only the second table of it, since only love to the neighbour...