For the entire law is summed up in this one command: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Commentaries
5:13 - 5:26
Led by the Spirit.
Paul begins his final exhortations with a new call to freedom: “You, brothers and sisters, have been called to freedom” (13). The Gospel and freedom are connected. What kind of liberation is he talking about? The same one he already mentioned to the Corinthians: “The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2 Cor 3:17). “If we live by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit” (26). This is the daily commitment of the Christian.
Commentaries
Led by the Spirit.
Paul begins his final exhortations with a new call to freedom: “You, brothers and sisters, have been called to freedom” (13). The Gospel and freedom are connected. What kind of liberation is he talking about? The same one he already mentioned to the Corinthians: “The Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom” (2 Cor 3:17). “If we live by the Spirit, let us follow the Spirit” (26). This is the daily commitment of the Christian.