“For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.”
You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love. — Paul's positive reframing: freedom ('eleutheria') is the believers' eschatological calling ('klēsis'), but freedom is not license ('aphormē tē sarki' — opportunity for the flesh); rather, it issues in mutual servitude ('douleuō' — serve, enslave oneself) through love, a paradoxical freedom that serves.
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