Galatians 5:15

But, if you are continually wounding and preying on one another, take care that you are not destroyed by one another.

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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

14Indeed, the whole Law has been summed up in this one precept – ‘You must love your neighbor as you love yourself.’

16This is what I have to say – Let your steps be guided by the Spirit, and then you will never gratify the cravings of your earthly nature.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:3While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other people do?

2 Corinthians 11:20You tolerate a person even when they enslave you, when they plunder you, when they get you into their power, when they put on airs of superiority, when they strike you in the face!

Galatians 5:26Do not let us grow vain, and provoke or envy 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 →

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