Verse 13
13. Called unto liberty From the burdensome artificialities of the old system ye are emancipated into a pure and simple heart-deep religion.
Use not liberty… to the flesh St. Paul’s liberty offers no man an exemption from the law of right. Let no man say, that under Paul’s gospel I am lawless, and nothing I do is sin. Such make their liberty an occasion, that is, means, or chance, or pretext, for indulging the flesh. By flesh here is meant, all opposed to the spirit; all that is unholy in man, whether of mind or body. It does not imply that all evil lies in matter or in the body. But as flesh is the transitory element of man, so the word is used for all that is low, earthly, or unholy.
By love serve As faith works by love, so actions produced by love have a true freedom in them. If we serve another from love we feel that in that service we are free.
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