Galatians 5:26
Let us not be vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
In Context
25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Cross References
Luke 14:10But when you are invited, go and recline in the last place, that when he that invited you shall come, he may say to you, Friend, go up higher. Then you shall have honor in the presence of those who recline with you.
Galatians 5:15But if you bite and devour one another, take heed lest you be utterly destroyed by one another.
James 3:14But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
1 Peter 5:5Likewise, you younger, be in subjection to the older: do you all indeed be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, but gives grace to the lowly.
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 →