Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Galatians 5:13

“For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”

Galatians 5:13 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Galatians 5:13, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Galatians 5. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

11 And I, brethren, if I yet preach circumcision, why do I yet suffer persecution? then is the offence of the cross ceased.

12 I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

13 For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

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

15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 1 Peter 2:16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.
  • 1 Corinthians 9:19For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.
  • 1 Corinthians 8:9But take heed lest by any means this liberty of yours become a stumblingblock to them that are weak.
  • Romans 15:1We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
  • Galatians 5:14For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
  • Ephesians 5:21Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.
  • Romans 6:18Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.
  • Galatians 6:2Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ.
  • Galatians 4:5To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.
  • Isaiah 61:1The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captiv…
  • 1 John 3:16Hereby perceive we the love of God, because he laid down his life for us: and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.
  • Jude 1:4For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying the only Lord Go…
  • James 2:15If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
  • 1 Corinthians 13:4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

More to meet God in Galatians

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How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.