Galatians 5:15
What meaning of the galatians 5:15 in the Bible?
What does Galatians 5:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another."
What does Galatians 5:15 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another."
Verse 15. _IF YE BITE AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER_] These Churches seem to have been in a state of great distraction; there were continual altercations among them. They had fallen from the grace of the Gos...
BUT IF YE BITE - The word used here (δάκνω daknō), means, properly, to bite, to sting; and here seems to be used in the sense of contending and striving - a metaphor not improbably taken from dogs a...
III. THE WALK OF THE JUSTIFIED BELIEVER, AS NOT UNDER THE LAW, BUT UNDER GRACE CHAPTER 5 _ 1. Stand fast! Be not entangled! (Galatians 5:1)_ 2. Exhortations and the law of love. (Galatians 5:7) 3...
First safeguard. They are free indeed, and as Christians are done with Law; but love will save them from indulging lower impulses. Love (as Jesus taught, Mark 12:31 and parallels) includes everything...
AN OLD STORY AND A NEW MEANING (Galatians 4:21-31 ; Galatians 5:1) 5:1 Tell me this--you who want to be subject to the law, you listen to it being read to you, don't you? Well, then, it stands writte...
BITE. Greek. _dakno_. Only here. DEVOUR. Greek. _katesthio_. See 2 Corinthians 11:20. TAKE HEED. Greek. _blepo_. App-133. THAT... NOT = lest. Greek. _me_. App-105. CONSUMED. Greek. _analisko_, Onl...
To _bite_and to _devour_is to act like wild beasts. The words are of course used figuratively to denote attacks made under the influence of evil passions, and especially through the rancour of party s...
13–15. _I say, you were called for freedom. But do not forget that true freedom implies service to others_ (Galatians 5:13) I speak so strongly about those that are confounding you, for _you_ were ca...
ΔΆΚΝΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΔΆΚΝΩ (G1143) кусать, ΚΑΤΕΣΘΊΕΤΕ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΚΑΤΕΣΘΊΩ (G2719) съедать. Оба гл. в настоящем времени конативны, выражают попытку (Burton); формы индикатива испол...
B. LIMITATIONS AND POWER OF FREEDOM Galatians 5:13-26 1. No fleshly License Galatians 5:13-15 TEXT 5:13-15 (13) For ye, brethren, were called for freedom; only use not your freedom for an occasio...
_ VERSE 15. 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 of another. BITE - backbite the character. DEVOUR - the substance, by extortion, etc. (; ; .) Bite, the act of one en...
1 This paragraph is the summary and conclusion of the doctrinal argument. Tersely, he puts the case. Which shall it be _ Christ _ or _ circumcision_!' No half hearted allegiance here, no serving of tw...
THE NATURE OF CHRISTIAN LIBERTY 1-12. The futility of seeking justification by attempting to comply with the demands of the Mosaic Law; the inconsistency of works and faith as methods of salvation. P...
CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE GALATIANS _HELEN POCOCK_ CHAPTER 5 CHRIST HAS MADE US FREE V1 We have freedom because Christ has made us free. Be certain that you remain free. You must not allow yourselv...
(13-15) The Judaisers would deserve such a fate; for they are undoing the whole object with which you were called. You were called, not to legal bondage, but to _freedom._ This caution only is needed:...
CHAPTER 22 THE PERILS OF LIBERTY. Galatians 5:13 OUR analysis has drawn a strong line across the middle of this chapter. At Galatians 5:13 the Apostle turns his mind in the ethical direction. He ha...
FREEDOM IS AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT OF CHRISTIAN LIFE, TO BE USED NOT FOR SELF-INDULGENCE, BUT FOR WILLING SERVICE TO THE LAW OF LOVE....
PRODUCE THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT Galatians 5:13 That Christ has freed us from the Law as a means of salvation does not free us from moral restraint, but brings us under the constraint of a higher law...
The whole law of liberty is stated in the sentences, "For freedom did Christ set us free," "stand fast therefore," and "be not entangled again in a yoke of bondage." He then refers first to circumcis...
(14) But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. (14) An exhortation to the duties of charity, by the profit that follows from it, because no men proved w...
(6) For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth anything, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love. (7) Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth? (8) This...
Galatians 1:1-24. We saw the second of Corinthians characterized by the most rapid transitions of feeling, by a deep and fervent sense of God's consolations, by a revulsion so much the more powerful i...
15._But if ye bite and devour one another_. From the nature of the subject, as well as from the language employed, we may conjecture that the Galatians had disputes among themselves; for they differed...
It is in this liberty, the liberty of Christ, alluding to the free woman and Jerusalem above, that they were to stand fast, and not put themselves again under the yoke of the law. If they took that gr...
BUT IF YE BITE AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER,.... Another reason inducing to love is taken from the pernicious consequences of a contrary spirit and conduct. The allusion is to beasts of prey falling upon an...
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. Ver. 15. _But if ye bite, &c._] _Si collidimnr, frangimur, _ If we clash, we break. Dissolution is the daughte...
_Ye have been called_ By the gospel; _into liberty_ From the bondage of the Mosaic ceremonies, as well as of sin and misery: _only use not liberty for an occasion of the flesh_ So as to nourish or gra...
IF YE BITE AND DEVOUR; contend with and injure one another....
The service of love as opposed to the service of the flesh:...
LIBERTY TO BE PRACTICED (vs.1-6) Chapter 4 dealt with the perfect freedom introduced by God Himself through Christ, freedom given to all who have been redeemed by His precious blood, freedom from th...
I COULD WISH THAT THOSE WHO TROUBLE YOU WOULD EVEN CUT THEMSELVES OFF! Judiazing teachers should be cut off. Romans 16:17 - "Mark them" 2 Timothy 3:5 - "turn away" Titus 1:10-11 - "mouths stopped...
13-15 The gospel is a doctrine according to godliness, 1 Timothy 6:3, and is so far from giving the least countenance to sin, that it lays us under the strongest obligation to avoid and subdue it. The...
This lets us know, that there were great contentions and divisions amongst the members of this church, whether (which is probable) occasioned by their differences in and about the doctrine of justific...
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. [Do not think because you are free that you are therefore free to do evil. As a contrast to the spirit of liber...
Cyprian Epistle VI From abuse and revilings also I entreat you to abstain, for "revilers do not attain the kingdom of God; "[20]...
Galatians 5:15 But G1161 if G1487 bite G1143 (G5719) and G2532 devour G2719 (G5719) another G240 beware G991 (G5720) consumed G3361 G355 (G5686) by G5259 another G240 Galatians 5:26;...
FREEDOM IS NOT TO BE MISINTERPRETED AS LICENCE. THEY MUST WALK IN LOVE AND BY THE SPIRIT (GALATIANS 5:13). Paul now goes on to deal with the charge that the Gospel he is presenting gives men licence...
_Warning' against the Abuse of Freedom, and Exhortation to Brotherly Love._ In the spirit of true Christian wisdom and moderation, the Apostle now warns the readers against the danger of abusing Chri...
IF YE BITE AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER (ε αλληλους δακνετε κα κατεσθιετε). Condition of first class assumed as true. Two common and old verbs often used together of wild animals, or like cats and dogs.T...
Galatians 5:1. _Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage._ «You are not under the law, but under grace. Do not subje...
CONTENTS: Liberty of the believer in Christ, apart from the law. Conflict of flesh and the Spirit. Christian character the result of the Spirit's work not self-effort. CHARACTERS: Christ, Holy Spirit...
Galatians 5:1. _Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free,_ by the redemption he has procured through the shedding of his own most precious blood. The liberty of your cele...
BUT IF YOU ACT LIKE ANIMALS. "But if, in _your frantic action_ either for or against The Law, you begin to act like animals, hurting and harming one another as you bite and devour each other, _watch o...
_But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another._ UNCHARITABLE CONTENTIONS IN THE CHURCH OF GOD I. There ever were, are, and will be, differences among God’s...
CHAPTER 5 SYNOPSIS OF THE CHAPTER i. S. Paul proceeds to urge the Galatians not to submit to the yoke of the Old Law, lest they be deprived of the fruits of Christ's righteousness, since in Him neit...
_CRITICAL AND EXPLANATORY NOTES_ Galatians 5:13. USE NOT LIBERTY FOR AN OCCASION TO THE FLESH.—Do not give the flesh the handle or pretext for its indulgence, which it eagerly seeks for. BY LOVE SERV...
EXPOSITION GALATIANS 5:1 GALATIANS 5:2 BEHOLD, I PAUL SAY UNTO YOU (ἴδε, ἐγὼ Παῦλος λώγω ὑμῖν); _lo_,_ I Paul say unto you. _The adverbial exclamation ἴδε, found in St. Paul's writings on...
Shall we turn now to Galatians chapter five. The whole concept is: how do I establish a righteous standing before God? Can I be righteous by keeping the law? Or am I righteous by my simple faith in Je...
1 Corinthians 3:3; 1 Corinthians 6:6; 2 Corinthians 11:20; 2 Corinthians 12:20; 2 Samuel 2:26; 2 Samuel 2:27; Galatians 5:26; Isaiah 11:13; Isaiah 11:5;...
Bite and devour [δ α κ ν ε τ ε κ α ι κ α τ ε σ θ ι ε τ ε]. Strong expressions of partisan hatred exerting itself for mutual injury. Daknein to bite, N. T. o. In LXX metaphorically, Micah 3:5; Habakkuk...
THE FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT Galatians 5:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Much is written about the Holy Spirit in the Word of God. The Epistles of Paul are freighted with many marvelous messages relative to the Sp...
But if — On the contrary, in consequence of the divisions which those troublers have occasioned among you, ye bite one another by evil speaking. And devour one another — By railing and clamour. Take h...
The apostle, to enforce the foregoing exhortation to mutual love, urges here the dangerous effects which their animosities and strifes, with their controversies and contentions, would most certainly p...