Galatians 5:15
But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
Majority Standard Bible
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
14The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
16So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
Cross References
Judges 9:44Then Abimelech and the companies with him rushed forward and took their stand at the entrance of the city gate. The other two companies rushed against all who were in the fields and struck them down.
Isaiah 9:20They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own offspring.
Isaiah 11:13Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, nor will Judah harass Ephraim.
1 Corinthians 3:3for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension and division among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
2 Corinthians 11:20In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.
Galatians 5:26Let us not become conceited, provoking and 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 →