Key Verse Spotlight
Galatians 5:15 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.”
Galatians 5:15
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only {use} not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
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.
{This} I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. {ye...: or, fulfil not}
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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