11 translations · Greek
Galatians 5:13
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.
Galatians 5:13 in 11 translations
- WEB 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.
- KJV 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.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For you, brothers, were called to freedom; but do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh. Rather, serve one another in love.
- ASV 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.
- LSV Literal Standard Version
- For you were called to freedom, brothers, only the freedom [is] not for an occasion to the flesh, but serve one another through the love,
- FBV Free Bible Version
- You, my brothers and sisters, were called to freedom! Just don't use your freedom as an excuse to indulge your sinful human nature—instead serve one another in love.
- YLT Young’s 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,
- DBY 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.
- WBT Webster’s Bible
- For, brethren, ye have been called to liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
- WEBC World English Bible (Catholic)
- For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don’t use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.
- DRA Douay-Rheims 1899
- For you, brethren, have been called unto liberty: only make not liberty an occasion to the flesh, but by charity of the spirit serve one another.
The Greek words
Each word of the Greek text in order, with its transliteration, the Berean Standard Bible’s English for it, and its Strong’s number and short definition.
| Word | Transliteration | English (BSB) | Strong’s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ὑμεῖς | Hymeis | you | G4771 σύ you |
| γὰρ | gar | For | G1063 γάρ for |
| ἐπ’ | ep’ | to | G1909 ἐπί upon/to/against |
| ἐλευθερίᾳ | eleutheria | freedom | G1657 ἐλευθερία freedom |
| ἐκλήθητε | eklēthēte | were called | G2564 καλέω to call: call |
| ἀδελφοί | adelphoi | brothers | G80 ἀδελφός brother |
| μόνον | monon | but | G3440 μόνον only |
| μὴ | mē | [do] not [use] | G3361 μή not |
| τὴν | tēn | [your] | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἐλευθερίαν | eleutherian | freedom | G1657 ἐλευθερία freedom |
| εἰς | eis | as | G1519 εἰς toward |
| ἀφορμὴν | aphormēn | an opportunity | G874 ἀφορμή opportunity |
| τῇ | tē | for the | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| σαρκί | sarki | flesh | G4561 σάρξ flesh |
| ἀλλὰ | alla | Rather | G235 ἀλλά but |
| διὰ | dia | in | G1223 διά through/because of |
| τῆς | tēs | — | G3588 ὁ the/this/who |
| ἀγάπης | agapēs | love | G26 ἀγάπη love |
| δουλεύετε | douleuete | serve | G1398 δουλεύω be a slave |
| ἀλλήλοις | allēlois | one another | G240 ἀλλήλων one another |
Related verses
- 1 Peter 2:16
as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.
- 1 Corinthians 9:19
For though I was free from all, I brought myself under bondage to all, that I might gain the more.
- 1 Corinthians 8:9
But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.
- Romans 15:1–2
Now we who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each one of us please his neighbor for that which is good, to be building him up.
- Galatians 5:14
For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
- Ephesians 5:21
subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.
- Romans 6:18–22
Being made free from sin, you became bondservants of righteousness. I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification. For when you were servants of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness. …
- Galatians 6:2
Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
- Galatians 4:5–7
that he might redeem those who were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of children. And because you are children, God sent out the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, “Abba, Father!” So you are no longer a bondservant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.
- Isaiah 61:1
The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
Cross references from OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0, most-voted first; text from the World English Bible.
In context
11 But I, brothers, if I still preach circumcision, why am I still persecuted? Then the stumbling block of the cross has been removed.
12 I wish that those who disturb you would cut themselves off.
13 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.
14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
15 But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
Read all of Galatians 5 in the World English Bible.
Edition and source notes
Each translation is shown as its source prints it, in its own verse numbering; where an edition numbers this verse differently, its own reference is given. The World English Bible, King James Version and Berean Standard Bible link to their chapter pages. Edition notes.
Literal Standard Version (2020) © Covenant Press and the Covenant Christian Coalition, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license. Free Bible Version (2018) © Dr. Jonathan Gallagher, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Imported from the checksum-pinned eBible.org USFX source; the extracted verse text is an adaptation shared under the same license.
The original words and their English come from the Berean Standard Bible translation tables (public domain); lemmas and short definitions from STEPBible (CC BY 4.0), with Greek definitions based on Abbott-Smith.
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