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But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don`t consume one another.
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A Warning in Animal Terms
Paul uses the graphic language of wild animals—"biting and devouring"—to describe internal church conflict. Commentators explain this isn't just disagreement, but destructive behaviors like slander, malice, and factionalism. The imagery is a stark warning against Christians treating each other like prey instead of family.
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Galatians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
But if ye bite. The word here used daknw means, properly, to bite, to sting; and here seems to be used in the sense of contending…
If ye bite and devour one another (ε αλληλους δακνετε κα κατεσθιετε). Condition of first class assumed as true. Two common and old…
19th Century
Baptist
But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you are not consumed one of another.
When dogs and wolves bite one another, …
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It is not hard to imagine the kind of strife that may have been present in the Galatian churches, either strife parallel to that of the Corinthians…
16th Century
Protestant
But if you bite and devour one another. From the nature of the subject, as well as from the language used, we may conjecture that the Gala…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
But if you bite and devour one another Another reason inducing to love is taken from the pernicious consequences of …
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The gospel is a doctrine according to godliness (1 Timothy 6:3), and is so far from giving the least approval to sin, that it places us…
13th Century
Catholic
Having proposed an example of standing and eliminated an obstacle to it, he now establishes its mode.
First, he establishes the mode of stan…
