Galatians 5:15

KJV1611 – Modern English

But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another.

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  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 For you are still carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?
  • 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 strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envy and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. 1 From where do wars and fights among you come? Do they not come from your desires that war within your members? 2 You desire and do not have; you kill, and covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, that you may spend it on your desires.
  • Phil 3:2 : 2 Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the mutilators.
  • Isa 9:20-21 : 20 And he will snatch on the right hand and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand and not be satisfied; they will eat every man the flesh of his own arm. 21 Manasseh, Ephraim, and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together will be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  • Isa 11:5-9 : 5 And righteousness shall be the belt of his loins, and faithfulness the belt of his waist. 6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat; the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall graze; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 The nursing child shall play near the hole of the cobra, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the viper's den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.
  • Isa 11:13 : 13 The envy of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
  • 1 Cor 6:6-8 : 6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers. 7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded? 8 No, you do wrong and defraud, and that your brethren.
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 For you bear it if someone brings you into bondage, if someone devours you, if someone takes from you, if someone exalts himself, if someone strikes you on the face.
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you wish not; lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;
  • 2 Sam 2:26-27 : 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that it will be bitter in the end? How long shall it be before you tell the people to return from pursuing their brothers? 27 And Joab said, As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely by morning the people had gone up every man from pursuing his brother.

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    13For, brethren, you have been called to freedom; only do not use freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.

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  • Gal 5:16-18
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    16I say then, walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh.

    17For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one another, so that you cannot do the things that you wish.

    18But if you are led by the Spirit, you are not under the law.

  • 20For you bear it if someone brings you into bondage, if someone devours you, if someone takes from you, if someone exalts himself, if someone strikes you on the face.

  • Gal 5:23-26
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    23gentleness, self-control; against such there is no law.

    24And those who are Christ's have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

    25If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

    26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

  • Gal 6:1-2
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    1Brothers, if a man is caught in a fault, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted.

    2Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

  • 15See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone; but always pursue what is good, both for yourselves and for all.

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    15But if your brother is grieved with your food, you are no longer walking in love. Do not destroy with your food the one for whom Christ died.

    16Therefore do not let your good be spoken of as evil.

  • 8Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walks about, seeking whom he may devour:

  • 11Do not speak evil of one another, brethren. He who speaks evil of a brother and judges his brother, speaks evil of the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge.

  • 14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.

  • 7Therefore do not be partakers with them.

  • 5So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.

  • 21For in eating, each one takes his own supper ahead of others, and one is hungry and another is drunk.

  • 6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

  • 9Do not grumble against one another, brethren, lest you be condemned: behold, the judge stands before the door.

  • 13Bearing with one another and forgiving one another, if anyone has a complaint against another; even as Christ forgave you, so also do you.

  • 11But now I have written to you not to keep company with anyone who is called a brother if he is sexually immoral, or greedy, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner—not even to eat with such a person.

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    12But when you sin against the brethren and wound their weak conscience, you sin against Christ.

    13Therefore, if food makes my brother stumble, I will eat no meat as long as the world stands, lest I make my brother stumble.

  • 8If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.

  • Gal 5:9-10
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    9A little leaven leavens the whole lump.

    10I have confidence in you through the Lord, that you will think no other way; but he who troubles you shall bear his judgment, whoever he is.

  • 2And you are arrogant, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed might be removed from among you.

  • 9For the commandments, 'You shall not commit adultery,' 'You shall not murder,' 'You shall not steal,' 'You shall not bear false witness,' 'You shall not covet,' and if there is any other commandment, are all summed up in this saying, namely, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

  • 33Therefore, my brothers, when you come together to eat, wait for one another.

  • 13Let us not therefore judge one another anymore, but judge this instead: that no one puts a stumbling block or an occasion to fall in his brother's way.

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    19Therefore let us pursue the things that lead to peace and the building up of one another.

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  • 17These things I command you, that you love one another.

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    31Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

    32And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

  • 15See then that you walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise,

  • 3For you are still carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?

  • 9But take care lest this liberty of yours somehow becomes a stumbling block to those who are weak.

  • 18And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

  • 7Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because you go to law one with another. Why do you not rather accept wrong? Why do you not rather allow yourselves to be defrauded?

  • 1We who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

  • 17Now I urge you, brethren, mark those who cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which you have learned, and avoid them.

  • 25that there should be no division in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.

  • 8For he who sows to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he who sows to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

  • 1Stand firm therefore in the freedom with which Christ has made us free, and do not become entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

  • 13For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.