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Galatians 6:1-5 (view passage online)
God calls believers to liberty, not as an opportunity for the flesh but to serve one another through love. Loving your neighbor as yourself fulfills the entire law. Believers who walk in the Spirit overcome the desires of the flesh.
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Galatians 5:16-26 (view passage online)
Believers who walk in the Spirit do not fulfill the lust of the flesh. They produce the fruit of the Spirit, which includes love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Those who belong to Christ crucify the flesh with its passions and desires.
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Romans 13:1-7 (view passage online)
Every soul must subject itself to governing authorities because God appoints all existing authorities. Rulers act as God’s ministers to maintain order and justice. Believers must render taxes, customs, fear, and honor to those who deserve them.
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Galatians 5:1-15 (view passage online)
Paul urges believers to stand fast in the liberty of Christ and reject those who hinder them. He warns that a little leaven leavens the whole lump and reminds them that faith works through love, not the law. Believers must walk in the Spirit to experience the reign of grace unto righteousness.
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Galatians 5:1-6 (view passage online)
Believers must stand fast in liberty and avoid the law, because choosing circumcision makes Christ profit them nothing. They wait through the Spirit for the hope of righteousness by faith. Only faith working through love matters in Christ, as seen when the Holy Spirit convicts us of unkind words.
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Galatians 4:21-31 (view passage online)
The Hagar and Sarah illustration contrasts the flesh with the spirit. Sarah doubted God and tried the flesh, resulting in the bondwoman persecuting the free woman. Believers must cast out the bondwoman and stand fast in liberty, just as Hebrews 12 contrasts Mount Sinai with Mount Zion.
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Galatians 4:21-31 (view passage online)
Paul uses the allegory of Hagar and Sarah to illustrate the law versus the promise. Hagar represents Mount Sinai and bondage, while Sarah represents the promise and supernatural grace. God counted Abraham as righteous because he believed God.
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Galatians 4:1-20 (view passage online)
The law kept people under guard like children until faith arrived. God sent His Son in the fullness of time so believers could receive adoption as sons. God gives believers a new capacity and motive to fulfill the new covenant command to love one another.
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Galatians 3:10-18 (view passage online)
The law demands perfection and curses all who fail, but Christ redeemed us from this curse. The inheritance comes by the promise God gave 430 years before the law. The obsolete old covenant gives way to the new covenant and its better promises.
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Romans 12:3-21 (view passage online)
Believers must think of themselves with sober judgment. God gives grace and unique gifts to each member of the body for different functions. Every part matters, so believers must use their gifts to build up others and fulfill the law of love.