Galatians 5:15
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But if you bite and devour one another: take heed you be not consumed one of another.

Galatians 5:26 Let us not be made desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

2 Samuel 2:26,27 And Abner cried out to Joab, and said: Shall thy sword rage unto utter destruction? knowest thou not that it is dangerous to drive people to despair? how long dost thou defer to bid the people cease from pursuing after their brethren? . . .

Isaiah 9:20,21 And he shall turn to the right hand, and shall be hungry: and shall eat on the left hand, and shall not be filled: every one shall eat the flesh of his own arm: Manasses Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasses, and they together shall be against Juda. . . .

Isaiah 11:5-9,13 And justice shall be the girdle of his loins: and faith the girdle of his reins. . . .

1 Corinthians 3:3 For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not carnal and walk you not according to man?

1 Corinthians 6:6-8 But brother goeth to law with brother: and that before unbelievers. . . .

2 Corinthians 11:20 For you suffer if a man bring you into bondage, if a man devour you, if a man take from you, if a man be lifted up, if a man strike you on the face.

2 Corinthians 12:20 For I fear lest perhaps, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found by you such as you would not. Lest perhaps contentions, envyings, animosities, dissensions, detractions, whisperings, swellings, seditions, be among you.

James 3:14-18 But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth. . . .

James 4:1-3 From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members? . . .

Context
Freedom in Christ
14For all the law is fulfilled in one word: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15But if you bite and devour one another: take heed you be not consumed one of another. 16I say then: Walk in the spirit: and you shall not fulfill the lusts of the flesh.…
Cross References
Galatians 5:20
Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects,

Philippians 3:2
Beware of dogs: beware of evil workers: beware of the concision.

Colossians 2:8
Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit: according to the tradition of men according to the elements of the world and not according to Christ.

Lexicon
But
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

if
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

you keep on biting
δάκνετε (daknete)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 1143: To bite; hence: I backbite, harm seriously. A prolonged form of a primary root; to bite, i.e. thwart.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's Greek 2532: And, even, also, namely.

devouring
κατεσθίετε (katesthiete)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 2719: To eat up, eat till it is finished, devour, squander, annoy, injure. From kata and esthio; to eat down, i.e. Devour.

each other,
ἀλλήλους (allēlous)
Personal / Reciprocal Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 240: One another, each other. Genitive plural from allos reduplicated; one another.

watch out,
βλέπετε (blepete)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 991: (primarily physical), I look, see, perceive, discern. A primary verb; to look at.

[or]
μὴ (mē)
Adverb
Strong's Greek 3361: Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.

you will be consumed
ἀναλωθῆτε (analōthēte)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Passive - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's Greek 355: From ana and a form of the alternate of haireomai; properly, to use up, i.e. Destroy.

by
ὑπ’ (hyp’)
Preposition
Strong's Greek 5259: A primary preposition; under, i.e. of place, or with verbs; of place (underneath) or where (below) or time (when).

each other.
ἀλλήλων (allēlōn)
Personal / Reciprocal Pronoun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's Greek 240: One another, each other. Genitive plural from allos reduplicated; one another.


Additional Translations
But if you keep on biting and devouring each other, watch out, or you will be consumed by each other.

But if you bite and devour one another, take heed, lest you might be consumed by one another.

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

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

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

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

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

But if you are perpetually snarling and snapping at one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another.

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

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