Galatians 5:15
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
KJV
εἰ δὲ ἀλλήλους δάκνετε καὶ κατεσθίετε, βλέπετε μὴ ὑπ’ ἀλλήλων ἀναλωθῆτε.
Greek NT
Quod si invicem mordetis, et comeditis : videte ne ab invicem consumamini.
Vulgate
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
ASV
But if you bite and devour one another: take heed you be not consumed one of another.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
βλέπω
blepo
verb · 132×
δάκνω
dakno
verb · 1×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
εἰ
ei
conditional · 491×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
κατεσθίω
katesthio
verb · 14×
μή
me
particle · 1033×
ἀλλήλων
allelon
reciprocal_pronoun · 100×
ἀναλίσκω
analisko
verb · 2×
ὑπό
upo
preposition · 221×
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. The best Physicians after they have made a deep incision, and have increased the pains by the wound, soothing the afflicted part, and giving rest and refreshment to the disturbed soul, proceed not to make a second incision, but rather soothe that which has been made with gentle remedies, and such as are suited to remove the violence of the pain. This Paul also did after he h…
1. The Power of Harmony in Relation to Prayer. Again I say unto you that if two of you shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them. Matthew 18:19 The word symphony is strictly applied to the harmonies of sounds in music. And there are indeed among musical sounds some accordant and others discordant. But the Evangelic Scripture is fam…
32. However, I suppose even they will be unwilling to proceed to such lengths, if they follow Asterius the sophist. For he, earnest as he is in his advocacy of the Arian heresy, and maintaining that the Unoriginate is one, runs counter to them in saying, that the Wisdom of God is unoriginate and without beginning also. The following is a passage out of his work : 'The Blessed P…
Cross-references
- 1Cor 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?
- 1Cor 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?
- 1Cor 6:6 — But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.
- 2Cor 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.
- 2Cor 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
- 2Cor 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
- Col 3:8 — But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
- Gal 5:26 — Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
- Gal 5:26 — Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
- Isa 9:20 — 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:
- Isa 9:21 — 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 — And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.
- Isa 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.
- Jas 3:14 — But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
- Mark 3:25 — And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
- Matt 12:25 — And Jesus knew their thoughts, and said unto them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself shall not stand:
- Phil 2:3 — Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
- Phil 2:14 — Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
- Phil 3:2 — Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
- Phil 3:2 — Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.
- Ps 14:4 — Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the LORD.
- Rom 13:13 — Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.