Galatians 5:15 “But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you…”

Galatians 5:15

But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

Geneva Bible 1599

If ye bite and deuoure one another, take heede least ye be consumed one of another.

Darby Translation

but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.

Young's Literal Translation

and if one another ye do bite and devour, see — that ye may not by one another be consumed.

Bible in Basic English

But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.

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Cross references

“But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.”

1 Corinthians 3:3 Galatians 5:26 2 Corinthians 11:20 2 Corinthians 12:20 1 Corinthians 6:6–8 Isaiah 11:13

1 Corinthians 3:3 · BSB

for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?

Galatians 5:26 · BSB

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

2 Corinthians 11:20 · BSB

In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.

2 Corinthians 12:20 · BSB

For I am afraid 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 quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

1 Corinthians 6:6–8 · BSB

Instead, one brother goes to law against another, and this in front of unbelievers!

Isaiah 11:13 · BSB

Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, nor will Judah harass Ephraim.

Also

Philippians 3:2

Philippians 3:2 · BSB

Watch out for those dogs, those workers of evil, those mutilators of the flesh!

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

14The entire law is fulfilled in a single decree: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

16So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

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