Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, take heed lest you be utterly destroyed by one another.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
In Context
14For all the law is fulfilled in one commandment, in this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.
16I say this: Walk in the Spirit, and you will not fulfill the desires of the flesh.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 3:3for you are yet carnal. For, since envy and strife and divisions are among you, are you not carnal, and do you not walk as men?
2 Corinthians 11:20For you bear it, if one enslave you, if one devour you, if one take from you, if one exalt himself, if one smite you on the face,
Galatians 5:26Let us not be vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
Matthew Henry on Galatians 5:14-26
Practical Godliness Enforced; Works of the Flesh and of the Spirit; The Fruits of the Spirit. ( a. d. 56.) 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. 16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the… Read the whole commentary →