Galatians 5:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²⁶Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Galatians 5:26 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 3:14-16
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. …
Philippians 2:1-3
If there be therefore any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any bowels and mercies, …
James 4:16
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
1 Corinthians 3:7
So then neither is he that planteth any thing, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.
Galatians 5:15
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-26)

In the latter part of this chapter the apostle comes to exhort these Christians to serious practical godliness, as the best antidote against the snares of the false teachers. Two things especially he presses upon them:— I. That they should not strive with one another, but love one another. He tells them (Gal. 5:13) that they had been called unto liberty, and he would have them to stand fast in the…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

26. Greek, “Let us not BECOME.” While not asserting that the Galatians are “vainglorious” now, he says they are liable to become so. provoking one another--an effect of “vaingloriousness” on the stronger: as “envying” is its effect on the weaker. A danger common both to the orthodox and Judaizing Galatians.