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Let`s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
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The Danger of "Vain Glory"
Commentators identify "vainglory" as the root sin in this verse. It's an empty ambition to be seen as superior in wealth, status, or talent. Scholars like John Calvin call it the "mother" of conflict, as it directly leads to provoking others through arrogance and envying those who seem to have more. True glory, they note, is found only in God.
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Galatians
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Let us not be desirous of vain glory. The word used here, kenodoxoi, means proud or vain of empty advantages such as birth, prope…
Let us not be (μη γινωμεθα). Present middle subjunctive (volitive), "Let us cease becoming vainglorious" (κενοδοξο), late word onl…
19th Century
Anglican
Let us not be.—Strictly, Let us not become. When he left the Galatian Church St. Paul was satisfied with their condition, but he …
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Baptist
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the spirit. Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
It is hard to tell whether this verse belongs with the preceding section or with what follows. Certainly, it is the first of a number of specific a…
16th Century
Protestant
Let us not be desirous of vain-glory. The special exhortations which were addressed to the Galatians were not more necessary for them than…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Let us not be desirous of vain glory Ambitious of being thought wiser, and richer, and more valuable than others; of…
If it is our care to act under the guidance and power of the blessed Spirit, though we may not be freed from the stirrings and oppositions of the c…
13th Century
Catholic
Having listed the works of the flesh and of the Spirit, the Apostle then concludes from both that those who follow the Spirit are not under the Law…
