Verse of the Day

　　

Galatians 5:14

The entire law is summed up in a single command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."

　　

Translations of Today's Verse

King James Version

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

English Standard Version

For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

The Message

For everything we know about God's Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom.

New King James Version

For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

New Living Translation

For the whole law can be summed up in this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."

　　

Commentary on Today's Verse

Commentary on Galatians 5:13-15

(Read Galatians 5:13-15)

　　The gospel is a doctrine according to godliness, 1 Timothy 6:3, and is so far from giving the least countenance to sin, that it lays us under the strongest obligation to avoid and subdue it. The apostle urges that all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. If Christians, who should help one another, and rejoice one another, quarrel, what can be expected but that the God of love should deny his grace, that the Spirit of love should depart, and the evil spirit, who seeks their destruction, should prevail? Happy would it be, if Christians, instead of biting and devouring one another on account of different opinions, would set themselves against sin in themselves, and in the places where they live.

　　

Galatians 5:14 In-Context

12 As for those agitators, I wish they would go the whole way and emasculate themselves!

　　13 You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the fleshIn contexts like this, the Greek word for "flesh" ("sarx" ) refers to the sinful state of human beings, often presented as a power in opposition to the Spirit; also in verses 16, 17, 19 and 24; and in 6:8. ; rather, serve one another humbly in love.

　　14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: "Love your neighbor as yourself."Lev. 19:18

　　15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

　　16 So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.