Galatians 5:15

Webster's Bible (1833)

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don't consume one another.

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  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
  • Jas 3:14-4:3 : 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. 18 Now the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. 1 Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members? 2 You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask. 3 You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.
  • Phil 3:2 : 2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the false circumcision.
  • Isa 9:20-21 : 20 One shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
  • Isa 11:5-9 : 5 Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist, and faithfulness the belt of his loins. 6 The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fattened calf together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 The sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Yahweh, as the waters cover the sea.
  • Isa 11:13 : 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and those who vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
  • 1 Cor 6:6-8 : 6 But brother goes to law with brother, and that before unbelievers! 7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded? 8 No, but you yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that against your brothers.
  • 2 Cor 11:20 : 20 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
  • 2 Sam 2:26-27 : 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, "Shall the sword devour forever? Don't you know that it will be bitterness in the latter end? How long shall it be then, before you bid the people return from following their brothers?" 27 Joab said, As God lives, if you had not spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone away, nor followed everyone his brother.

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  • Gal 5:13-14
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    13 For you, brothers, were called for freedom. Only don't use your freedom for gain to the flesh, but through love be servants to one another.

    14 For the whole law is fulfilled in one word, in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

  • Gal 5:16-18
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    16 But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won't fulfill the lust of the flesh.

    17 For the flesh lusts against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary to one other, that you may not do the things that you desire.

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

  • 20 For you bear with a man, if he brings you into bondage, if he devours you, if he takes you captive, if he exalts himself, if he strikes you on the face.

  • Gal 5:23-26
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    23 gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

    24 Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

    25 If we live by the Spirit, let's also walk by the Spirit.

    26 Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

  • Gal 6:1-2
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    1 Brothers, even if a man is caught in some fault, you who are spiritual must restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to yourself so that you also aren't tempted.

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

  • 15 See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good, for one another, and for all.

  • Rom 14:15-16
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    15 Yet if because of food your brother is grieved, you walk no longer in love. Don't destroy with your food him for whom Christ died.

    16 Then don't let your good be slandered,

  • 8 Be sober and self-controlled. Be watchful. Your adversary the devil, walks around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour.

  • 11 Don't speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.

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

  • 7 Therefore don't be partakers with them.

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

  • 21 For in your eating each one takes his own supper before others. One is hungry, and another is drunken.

  • 6 Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

  • 9 Don't grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won't be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

  • 13 bearing with one another, and forgiving each other, if any man has a complaint against any; even as Christ forgave you, so you also do.

  • 11 But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner. Don't even eat with such a person.

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    12 Thus, sinning against the brothers, and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.

    13 Therefore, if food causes my brother to stumble, I will eat no meat forevermore, that I don't cause my brother to stumble.

  • 8 However, if 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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    9 A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

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

  • 2 You are puffed up, and didn't rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

  • 9 For the commandments, "You shall not commit adultery," "You shall not murder," "You shall not steal," "You shall not give false testimony," "You shall not covet,"{TR adds "You shall not give false testimony,"} and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

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

  • 13 Therefore let's not judge one another any more, but judge this rather, that no man put a stumbling block in his brother's way, or an occasion for falling.

  • Rom 14:19-20
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    19 So then, let us follow after things which make for peace, and things by which we may build one another up.

    20 Don't overthrow God's work for food's sake. All things indeed are clean, however it is evil for that man who creates a stumbling block by eating.

  • 17 "I command these things to you, that you may love one another.

  • Eph 4:31-32
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    31 Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

    32 And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

  • 15 Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

  • 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

  • 9 But be careful that by no means does this liberty of yours become a stumbling block to the weak.

  • 18 Don't be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

  • 7 Therefore it is already altogether a defect in you, that you have lawsuits one with another. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be defrauded?

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

  • 17 Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

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

  • 8 For he who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

  • 1 Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.

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