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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be. Depend upon it, every man who troubles a church with false doctrine is amenable to the High Court above; and, sooner or later, he may expect even a temporal judgment here below.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision,.... The apostle was traduced by the false teachers, as a preacher of circumcision himself in some places; and this they did partly to show him to be a variable and inconsistent man, who preached one doctrine in one place, and another in another place, and so not to be attended to; and partly with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased. “The offence of the Cross” is that it sets up faith as the infinite merit of Christ’s atonement, and knocks down all confidence in outward ritual and ceremonies. Paul says that, if he had preached the flesh-pleasing doctrines of...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I would they were even cut off which trouble you. These words are a solemn wish of the apostle's with respect to the false teachers, or an imprecation of the judgment of God upon them; that they might be cut off out of the land of the living by the immediate hand of God, that they might do no more mischief to the churches of Christ: this he said...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I would they were even cut off which trouble you. Excommunicated, and put out of the church; nay, it would be better if they were even dead, rather than that they should live to spread such evil even in a Christian church. Sometimes, when we think of the interests of immortal souls, we are apt to grow indignant, and rightly so, towards willfully...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
For brethren, ye have been called unto liberty,.... He calls them "brethren", to testify his affection to them, and to put them in mind of their relation to one another, which required mutual love, a thing he is about to press them to; he asserts that they were "called" not merely externally, but internally, by the effectual grace of God, out of...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 let liberty become license; do not say, “I may do this or that, and therefore I will do it because it pleases me.” You are not to do anything because it pleases you, but you are to do everything because it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, “Do not make licence out of your liberty. Remember that liberty from sin is not liberty to sin.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But by love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. The condensation of the whole law is contained in that one word “love.” In the first table, we are taught to love God; and the commands of the second table teach us to love our neighbor.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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, in this Epistle, had began urging the Christians of Galatians to stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ had made them free, and never to be again entangled with...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 is...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. The legal spirit is all for expansion; it multiplies it commands, and lays down its ritual for this, and that, and the other; but the gospel spirit is all for condensation. It has condensed the whole law into a single word, that is “love.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. Oh, if that “one word” were so engraven on our hearts as to influence all our lives, what blessed lives of love to God and love to men we should lead!
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But if ye bite and devour one another,.... Another reason inducing to love is taken from the pernicious consequences of a contrary spirit and conduct. The allusion is to beasts of prey falling upon and devouring one another: for wolves or dogs to worry sheep is not strange; but for sheep to distress one another is unnatural. The apostle does not...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. This man finds fault, the other must have his own way, a third is for something quite new, a fourth is for nothing but what is antique, and so they fall to squabbling and quarrelling.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if ye bite and devour one another, Finding fault, slandering, injuring, bearing malice, and so on: —“If ye bite and devour one another,” Gal_5:15. Take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. “You will eat one another up; you will, each one, condemn his neighbor.” Paul represents the great Judge coming, and waiting outside the door; and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. When dogs and wolves bite one another, it is according to their nature; but it is bad indeed when sheep take to biting one another. If I must be bitten at all, let me rather be bitten by a dog than by a sheep. That is to say, the wounds inflicted by the godly...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
This I say then, walk in the Spirit,.... The advice the apostle thinks fit to give, and which he would have observed, is, to "walk in the Spirit", that is, either after the Spirit of God; making the word inspired by him the rule of behaviour, which as it is the standard of faith, so of practice, and is the lamp unto our feet, and the light unto...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Be obedient to that great principle of the Spirit which goes with the doctrine of grace and salvation by faith, and then you will not be obedient to that lusting of the flesh which is in you by nature.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Walk under the Spirit’s power, following his guidance. The Spirit never leads a man into sin. He never conducts him into self-indulgence and excess.