Galatians 5:6

In Jesus Christ. — When the Christian has entered into those close relations with Christ which his Christianity assumes.

Availeth any thing. — As “shall profit” in Galatians 5:2; avail in the way of justification.

Faith which worketh by love. — Faith in Christ, the devoted attachment to Christ, is the great motive power, the source or mainspring of action; and the law by which that action is regulated is the law of love. (Comp. Galatians 5:13 below, and Romans 13:8.) Faith makes a man seek to do the will of Christ; love tells him what that will is. It is clear that the faith thus described by St. Paul does not stop short in a mere head notion, and so is in no conflict with the teaching of St. James. (See James 2:14.)