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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Galatians 5 In this chapter the apostle exhorts to stand fast in Christian liberty, and warns against the abuse of it; and directs to shun various vices, and encourages, to the exercise of several graces, and the observance of several duties; and concludes with a caution against vain glory, provocation to wrath, and envy: and whereas, in the latter part of the preceding chapter,...
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 mentioned; or else the whole of it, both tables,...
Matthew Henry
In this chapter the apostle comes to make application of his foregoing discourse. He begins it with a general caution, or exhortation (ver. 1), which he afterwards enforces by several considerations, ver. 2-12. He then presses them to serious practical godliness, which would be the best antidote against the snares of their false teachers; particularly, I. That they should not strive with one...
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.”
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.
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!