Galatians 5:26 BSB — MannaFest

Galatians 5:26

Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.

BSB

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ASV

Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

KJV

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

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Commentary

3 voices

Jerome

Commentary on Galatians (420)

(Verse 26.) We will not become empty glory-seekers, provoking one another, envying one another. The Greek word κενόδοξοι, translated by the Latin interpreter through a circuit of three words, expresses how many definitions and meanings glory has, as well as the countless books by philosophers and the two volumes written by Cicero on the subject.

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The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the New Testament (1746-1748)

Let us not be desirous of vain glory,.... Ambitious of being thought wiser, and richer, and more valuable than others; of having the preeminence in the management of all affairs, and of having honour, esteem, and popular applause from men: this may well be called vain glory, since it is only in outward things, as wisdom, riches, strength, and honour, and not in God the giver of them, and who can easily take them away; and therefore is but for a time, and is quickly gone, and lies only in the opinion and breath of men.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Let us not be desirous of vain glory - Κενοδοξοι· Let us not be vain glorious - boasting of our attainments; vaunting ourselves to be superior to others; or seeking honor from those things which do not possess moral good; in birth, riches, eloquence, etc., etc. Provoking one another - What this may refer to we cannot tell; whether to the Judaizing teachers, endeavoring to set themselves up beyond the apostle, and their attempts to lessen him in the people’s eyes, that they might secure to themselves the public confidence, and thus destroy St. Paul’s influence in the Galatian Churches; or whether to some other matter in the internal economy of the Church, we know not.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

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Original language & word study

7 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
μὴ	mē	Not	G3361 →
γινώμεθα	ginōmetha	we may become	G1096 →
κενόδοξοι,	kenodoxoi	boastful,	G2755 →
ἀλλήλους	allēlous	one another	G240 →
προκαλούμενοι,	prokaloumenoi	provoking,	G4292 →
ἀλλήλοις	allēlois	one another	G240 →
φθονοῦντες.¶	phthonountes	envying.	G5354 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
1 Corinthians 3:7
So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow.
leads to
- John 15:5
  I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
- Galatians 6:3
  If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
- Psalms 115:1
  Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.
- 2 Corinthians 12:9
  But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is perfected in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly in my weaknesses, so that the power of…
Through
James 4:16
As it is, you boast in your proud intentions. All such boasting is evil.
leads to
- Proverbs 27:1
  Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
- 1 Corinthians 5:6
  Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
- Psalms 52:7
  “Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
Through
Luke 14:10
But when you are invited, go and sit in the last place, so that your host will come and tell you, ‘Friend, move up to a better place.’ Then you will be honored in…
leads to
- Proverbs 25:6–7
  Do not exalt yourself in the presence of the king, and do not stand in the place of great men;

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Where the connections lead

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06About Galatians

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Galatians