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Galatians 5:15 KJV
Galatians · chapter 5 · verse 15
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.Galatians 5:15 · King James Version
Galatians 5:15 in context
13For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
14For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.
15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
16This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.
17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
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Key words (Strong's)
- consumedanaliskōto expend, to consume, e.g. spend money, to consume, use up, destroyG355 →
- devourkatesthiōto consume by eating, to eat up, devour, of birds, of a dragon, of a man eating up the…G2719 →
- bitedaknōto bite with the teeth, metaph., to wound the soul, cut lacerate, rend with reproachesG1143 →
- heedblepōto see, discern, of the bodily eye, with the bodily eye to be possessed of sight, have…G991 →
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In the latter part of this chapter the apostle comes to exhort these Christians to serious practical godliness, as the best antidote against the snares of the false teachers. Two things especially he presses upon them: - I. That they should not strive with one another, but love one another.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-26