Parallel Verses
NET Bible
For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another.
New American Standard Bible
For you were called to
King James Version
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Holman Bible
For you were called
International Standard Version
For you, brothers, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an opportunity to gratify your flesh, but through love make it your habit to serve one another.
A Conservative Version
For ye, brothers, were called to liberty, only not liberty for an opportunity to the flesh, but be servants to each other through love.
American Standard Version
For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love be servants one to another.
Amplified
For you, my brothers, were called to freedom; only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the
An Understandable Version
For you brothers were called [by God] to enjoy your freedom; but do not use this freedom as an excuse for living a sinful life; instead, use it to render loving service to each other.
Anderson New Testament
For you have been called to freedom, brethren: only use not your freedom as an occasion for the flesh, but become servants to one another, through love.
Bible in Basic English
Because you, brothers, were marked out to be free; only do not make use of your free condition to give the flesh its chance, but through love be servants one to another.
Common New Testament
For you were called to freedom, brethren; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for, brethren, you have been called to liberty. only abuse not this freedom as a pretext to vice, but in offices of love be as servants one to another.
Darby Translation
For ye have been called to liberty, brethren; only do not turn liberty into an opportunity to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Godbey New Testament
For you were called unto liberty, brethren; only use not the liberty unto an occasion to the flesh, but through divine love serve one another.
Goodspeed New Testament
For you, brothers, have been called to freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for the physical, but in love be slaves to one another.
John Wesley New Testament
Brethren, ye have been called to liberty: only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Julia Smith Translation
For ye were called to liberty brethren; only not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but through love serve ye one another.
King James 2000
For, brethren, you have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not let your freedom [become] an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.
Modern King James verseion
For, brothers, you were called to liberty. Only do not use the liberty for an opening to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Brethren, ye were called into liberty, only let not your liberty be an occasion unto the flesh but in love serve one another.
Moffatt New Testament
Brothers, you were called to be free; only, do not make your freedom an opening for the flesh, but serve one another in love.
Montgomery New Testament
For you, brothers, were called for freedom; only do not make your freedom an excuse for self-indulgence, but in love enslave yourselves to one another.
New Heart English Bible
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only do not use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
Noyes New Testament
For ye, brethren, were called to liberty; only use not your liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by your love serve one another.
Sawyer New Testament
For you are called to liberty, brothers, only make not your liberty an occasion for the flesh, but by love serve one another.
The Emphasized Bible
For, ye, on a footing of freedom, were called, brethren, - only, turn not your freedom into an occasion to the flesh, but, by means of your love, be serving one another;
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For ye have been called unto liberty, brethren; only use not that liberty as a pretext for carnality, but in love be subject one to another.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Remember, Brothers, to you the Call came to give you freedom. Only do not make your freedom an opportunity for self-indulgence, but serve one another in a loving spirit.
Webster
For, brethren, ye have been called to liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
Weymouth New Testament
You however, brethren, were called to freedom. Only do not turn your freedom into an excuse for giving way to your lower natures; but become bondservants to one another in a spirit of love.
Williams New Testament
For you, brothers, were called to freedom; only you must not let your freedom be an excuse for the gratification of your lower nature, but in love be slaves to one another.
World English Bible
For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
Worrell New Testament
For ye were called to freedom, brethren; only use not your freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through love serve one another;
Worsley New Testament
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only abuse not this liberty for an occasion to indulge the flesh, but by mutual love serve one another.
Youngs Literal Translation
For ye -- to freedom ye were called, brethren, only not the freedom for an occasion to the flesh, but through the love serve ye one another,
Themes
Brotherly love » General references to
The call of God » To man is » To liberty
Freedom/liberty » What not to use liberty for
The law of God » Is the rule of life to saints
Legalism » Liberty being threatened by legalism
Liberty » The abuse of, warnings against
Christian Liberty » Saints should » Not abuse
Christian Liberty » Saints are called to
Love » Brotherly » General references to
Topics
Interlinear
Dia
References
Fausets
Hastings
Watsons
Word Count of 37 Translations in Galatians 5:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Live In Freedom And Love One Another
12 I wish those agitators would go so far as to castrate themselves! 13 For you were called to freedom, brothers and sisters; only do not use your freedom as an opportunity to indulge your flesh, but through love serve one another. 14 For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, "You must love your neighbor as yourself."
Cross References
1 Corinthians 9:19
For since I am free from all I can make myself a slave to all, in order to gain even more people.
1 Corinthians 8:9
But be careful that this liberty of yours does not become a hindrance to the weak.
1 Peter 2:16
Live as free people, not using your freedom as a pretext for evil, but as God's slaves.
Jude 1:4
For certain men have secretly slipped in among you -- men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe -- ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.
Isaiah 61:1
The spirit of the sovereign Lord is upon me, because the Lord has chosen me. He has commissioned me to encourage the poor, to help the brokenhearted, to decree the release of captives, and the freeing of prisoners,
Mark 10:43-45
But it is not this way among you. Instead whoever wants to be great among you must be your servant,
Luke 4:18
"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,
John 13:14-15
If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you too ought to wash one another's feet.
Acts 20:35
By all these things, I have shown you that by working in this way we must help the weak, and remember the words of the Lord Jesus that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
Romans 6:18-22
and having been freed from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.
Romans 15:1-2
But we who are strong ought to bear with the failings of the weak, and not just please ourselves.
2 Corinthians 4:5
For we do not proclaim ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your slaves for Jesus' sake.
Galatians 4:5-7
to redeem those who were under the law, so that we may be adopted as sons with full rights.
Galatians 5:14
For the whole law can be summed up in a single commandment, namely, "You must love your neighbor as yourself."
Galatians 5:22
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
Galatians 6:2
Carry one another's burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.
Ephesians 5:21
and submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
James 2:15-17
If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacks daily food,
1 John 3:16-19
We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.
John 8:32-36
and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Galatians 4:22-1
For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave woman and the other by the free woman.
2 Peter 2:19
Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.
2 Corinthians 12:15
Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
1 Thessalonians 1:3
because we recall in the presence of our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and endurance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:10-12
But these men do not understand the things they slander, and they are being destroyed by the very things that, like irrational animals, they instinctively comprehend.