Galatians 5:15

But if you are perpetually snarling and snapping at one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another.

Weymouth NT (1912)

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 the entire Law has been obeyed when you have kept the single precept, which says, "You are to love your fellow man equally with yourself."

16This then is what I mean. Let your lives be guided by the Spirit, and then you will certainly not indulge the cravings of your lower natures.

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Cross References

1 Corinthians 3:3you are still unspiritual. For so long as jealousy and strife continue among you, can it be denied that you are unspiritual and are living and acting like mere men of the world?

2 Corinthians 11:20For you tolerate it, if any one enslaves you, lives at your expense, makes off with your property, gives himself airs, or strikes you on the face.

Galatians 5:26Let us not become vain-glorious, challenging 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 →

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