Galatians 5:26
Let us not be vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
1770 John Worsley NT
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 thou art invited, go and sit down at the lowest place, that, when he who invited thee cometh, he may say to thee, Friend, go up higher: then wilt thou have honor before them that sit at table with thee:
Galatians 5:15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not destroyed by one another.
James 3:14but if ye have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth;
1 Peter 5:5Likewise ye younger, be subject to the elder; and all of you behaving with due submission one to another, be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, but sheweth favor to the humble.
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 →