Galatians 5:15

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

Twentieth Century 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

14Indeed, the whole Law has been summed up in this one precept — ‘Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thou dost thyself.’

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 men do?

2 Corinthians 11:20You tolerate a man even when he enslaves you, when he plunders you, when he gets you into his power, when he puts on airs of superiority, when he strikes 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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