Verse 15

But if you bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

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  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 For you are still worldly. Since there is jealousy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not worldly and living like mere humans?
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
  • Jas 3:14-4:3 : 14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and deny the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, and demonic. 16 For where there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice. 17 But the wisdom that comes from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, and sincere. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. 1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within your body parts? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
  • Phil 3:2 : 2 Watch out for the dogs, watch out for the evil workers, watch out for those who mutilate the flesh.
  • Isa 9:20-20 : 20 Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh; together they turn against Judah. Yet for all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still stretched out.
  • Isa 11:5-9 : 5 Righteousness will be the belt around his waist, and faithfulness the belt around his hips. 6 The wolf will dwell with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat. The calf, the lion, and the fatted cattle will be together, and a little child will lead them. 7 The cow and the bear will graze; their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox. 8 The nursing child will play near the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child will put his hand on the viper’s den. 9 They will neither harm nor destroy on my entire holy mountain, for the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
  • Isa 11:13 : 13 The jealousy of Ephraim will be removed, and the enemies of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, and Judah will no longer harass Ephraim.
  • 1 Cor 6:6-8 : 6 But instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers! 7 The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated? 8 Instead, you yourselves wrong and cheat—and you do this to your brothers and sisters.
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 In fact, you put up with anyone who enslaves you, devours you, takes advantage of you, exalts himself, or strikes you in the face.
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I fear that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be strife, jealousy, anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
  • 2 Sam 2:26-27 : 26 Abner called out to Joab and said, 'Must the sword devour forever? Don’t you realize that this will only end in bitterness? How long will you delay telling the people to stop pursuing their brothers?' 27 Joab answered, 'As surely as God lives, if you had not spoken, the people would have continued pursuing their brothers until morning.'