Charles Spurgeon Commentary Galatians 5:26

"Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another." — Galatians 5:26 (ASV)

Let us not be desirous of vain glory.

We call it glory, but it is vain glory. It is marred by vanity if it arises from anything done by us. Glory for you or for me because of anything that we can do is too absurd an idea to be entertained for a moment: Let us not be desirous of vain glory.

Envying one another.

O brothers and sisters, let us try to overcome all this, and reach for that blessed state of love which will bring to us peace and joy in the Holy Spirit!

Let us not be desirous of vain glory,

Let us not want to be accounted as somebody; for, if we do, we prove that we are really nobody. Nobody is anybody until he is willing to be nobody; as long as he wants to be somebody, he is nobody and nothing.

Provoking one another, envying one another.

If each would strive to be the one who should do the greatest deeds of love, and each were willing to take the lowest place, then this evil would never be known again.

Provoking one another, envying one another.

God save us from that and every other form of evil!

Provoking one another,-

For, whenever a man is proud, and blustering, and vain-glorious, he is sure to provoke somebody or other, and then those who are so provoked fall into another sin, the sin of-