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Galatians 5:15

Conflict and reconciliationFellowship and the churchEnvy and jealousyAnger

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.

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 flesh.

17 For 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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BSB
But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
KJV
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
WEB
But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
ASV
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
DARBY
but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.
BLB
But if you⁺ bite and devour one another, watch out, lest you⁺ might be consumed by one another.
ÅB
Men dersom dere biter og spiser hverandre, da se til at dere ikke blir fortært av hverandre!
OTB
Hvis dere biter og eter hverandre, pass på at dere ikke blir fortært av hverandre.
B1930
Men dersom I biter og eter hverandre, da se til at I ikke blir fortært av hverandre!

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Cross references

  • 1 Corinthians 3:3

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

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  • James 3:14–4:3

    But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

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  • Galatians 5:26

    Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

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  • 2 Corinthians 11:20

    For ye suffer, if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take of you, if a man exalt himself, if a man smite you on the face.

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  • 2 Corinthians 12:20

    For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

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  • Isaiah 9:20–21

    And he 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:

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  • 1 Corinthians 6:6–8

    But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

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  • Isaiah 11:13

    The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

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