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NASB					Gal 5:13 ¶ For you were called²⁵⁶⁴ to ^Afreedom¹⁶⁵⁷, brethren⁸⁰; ^Bonly³⁴⁴⁰ do not turn your freedom¹⁶⁵⁷ into an opportunity⁸⁷⁴ for the flesh⁴⁵⁶¹, but through¹²²³ love²⁶ ^Cserve¹³⁹⁸ one²⁴⁰ another²⁴⁰.
AMPLIFIED 2015					Gal 5:13 ¶ For you, my brothers, were called to freedom; only do not let your freedom become an opportunity for the ¹sinful nature (worldliness, selfishness), but through ²love serve and seek the best for one another.

Amplified 2015 Translator's Notes:
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Lit flesh.

The key to understanding this and other statements about love is to know that this love (the Greek word agape) is not so much a matter of emotion as it is of doing things for the benefit of another person, that is, having an unselfish concern for another and a willingness to seek the best for another.

NASB Cross References:
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Gal 5:1 It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.

1 Cor 8:9 But take care that this liberty of yours does not somehow become a stumbling block to the weak.

1 Cor 9:19 ¶ For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I may win more.

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Greek Heb.

agapê; from 25; love, goodwill:--beloved(1), love(1), love(112), love feasts(1), love's(1).

adelphos; from 1 (as a cop. pref.) and delphus (womb); a brother:--believing husband(1), brethren(170), brethren*(13), brother(111), brother's(8), brothers(40).

240

allêlôn; a recip. pron.; of one another:--another(1), each(1), each other(1), one another(90), one another's(2), other's(1), themselves(1), together*(2), yourselves(1).

874

aphormê; from 575 and 3729; a starting point, i.e. fig. an occasion:--occasion(2), opportunity(5).

1223

dia; a prim. prep.; through, on account of, because of:--account(4), after(2), afterward(1), always*(2), because(111), between*(1), briefly*(1), charge*(1), constantly(1), continually*(6), during(1), forever*(1), gives(1), means(3), over(1), presence(1), reason(40), sake(41), sakes(5), since(1), so then*(1), so*(1), therefore*(16), this reason*(1), this*(1), though(1), through(225), through the agency(1), through*(1), view(2), way(3), what(1), why(3), why*(27).

1398

douleuô; from 1401; to be a slave, to serve:--bondage(1), enslaved(3), render service(1), serve(10), served(1), serves(1), serving(4), slavery(1), slaves(3).

1657

eleutheria; from 1658; liberty, freedom:--freedom(7), liberty(4).

2564

kaleô; a prim. word; to call:--call(13), called(99), calling(2), calls(7), give(1), invite(2), invited(15), invited guests(1), invites(1), name given(1), named(2), so-called(1), summoned(2).

3440

monon; adv. from 3441; merely:--only(53), simply(2).

4561

sarx; a prim. word; flesh:--bodily(1), bodily condition(1), body(2), earth(1), earthly(1), fellow countrymen(1), flesh(129), fleshly(4), life(3), man(1), mankind(1), nation(1), personally(1).

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