GAL 5:15 Parallel View

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OET (OET-RV) But if you’re all snapping at and bullying each other, watch out or else you’ll destroy each other’s faith.

Key: yellow:verbs, orange:accusative/object, pink:genitive/possessor.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

ULT But if you are biting and devouring one another, watch out that you might not be consumed by one another.

UST Now if you keep attacking and harming each other like wild animals, beware that you might completely destroy each other.

BSB But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

BLB But if you bite and devour one another, take heed, lest you might be consumed by one another.

AICNT But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

OEB But, if you are continually wounding and preying on one another, take care that you are not destroyed by one another.

WEB But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

NET However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

LSV and if you bite and devour one another, see that you may not be consumed by one another.

FBV But if you attack and tear into one other, watch out that you don't completely destroy yourselves!

TCNT But if you bite and devour one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

T4T Since you are attacking and injuring [MET] each other by the things that you say [MET], I warn you that if you continue doing that, you will totally ruin each other spiritually.

LEB But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
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BBE But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.

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ASV But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

DRA But if you bite and devour one another; take heed you be not consumed one of another.

YLT and if one another ye do bite and devour, see — that ye may not by one another be consumed.

DBY but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.

RV But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

WBS But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one by another.

KJB But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
(But if ye/you_all bite and devour one another, take heed that ye/you_all be not consumed one of another. )

BB Yf ye byte and deuoure one another, take heede lest ye be consumed one of another.
(If ye/you_all byte and deuoure one another, take heed lest ye/you_all be consumed one of another.)

GNV If ye bite and deuoure one another, take heede least ye be consumed one of another.
(If ye/you_all bite and deuoure one another, take heed least ye/you_all be consumed one of another. )

CB But yf ye byte and deuoure one another, take hede, that ye be not consumed one of another.
(But if ye/you_all byte and deuoure one another, take hede, that ye/you_all be not consumed one of another.)

TNT Yf ye byte and devoure one another: take hede lest ye be consumed one of another.
(If ye/you_all byte and devoure one another: take heed lest ye/you_all be consumed one of another. )

WYC And if ye bite, and ete ech othere, se ye, lest ye be wastid ech fro othere.
(And if ye/you_all bite, and eat each other, see ye, lest ye/you_all be wastid each from other.)

LUT So ihr euch aber untereinander beißet und fresset, so sehet zu, daß ihr nicht untereinander verzehret werdet.
(So her you but untereinander beißet and fresset, so sehet zu, that her not untereinander verzehret becomet.)

CLV Quod si invicem mordetis, et comeditis: videte ne ab invicem consumamini.[fn]
(That when/but_if invicem mordetis, and comeditis: videte ne away invicem consumamini.)

5.15 Comeditis. Vel criminamini, id est, crimina vobis invicem imponentes. Ne abinvicem consumamini. Per schisma Christianæ religionis, per vanam gloriam vanamque victoriam mutata occasione charitatis hoc eorum vitium tetigit, quia dissensio inimica est dilectionis. Hoc enim maxime vitio contentionis et invidiæ et perniciosa inter eos jurgia nutriebantur, quibus consumitur societas et vita.

5.15 Comeditis. Vel criminamini, id it_is, crimina to_you invicem imponentes. Ne abinvicem consumamini. Per schisma Christianæ religionis, per vanam gloriam vanamque victoriam mutata occasione charitatis hoc eorum vitium tetigit, because dissensio inimica it_is dilectionis. Hoc because maxime vitio contentionis and invidiæ and perniciosa between them yurgia nutriebantur, to_whom consumitur societas and vita.

UGNT εἰ δὲ ἀλλήλους δάκνετε καὶ κατεσθίετε, βλέπετε μὴ ὑπ’ ἀλλήλων ἀναλωθῆτε.
(ei de allaʸlous daknete kai katesthiete, blepete maʸ hup’ allaʸlōn analōthaʸte.)

SBL-GNT εἰ δὲ ἀλλήλους δάκνετε καὶ κατεσθίετε, βλέπετε μὴ ὑπʼ ἀλλήλων ἀναλωθῆτε.
(ei de allaʸlous daknete kai katesthiete, blepete maʸ hupʼ allaʸlōn analōthaʸte. )

TC-GNT Εἰ δὲ ἀλλήλους δάκνετε καὶ κατεσθίετε, βλέπετε μὴ [fn]ὑπὸ ἀλλήλων ἀναλωθῆτε.
(Ei de allaʸlous daknete kai katesthiete, blepete maʸ hupo allaʸlōn analōthaʸte.)

5:15 υπο ¦ υπ ANT CT

Key for above GNTs: yellow:punctuation differs, red:words differ (from our SR-GNT base).

UTN uW Translation Notes:

Note 1 topic: grammar-connect-condition-hypothetical

εἰ & ἀλλήλους δάκνετε καὶ κατεσθίετε, βλέπετε μὴ ὑπ’ ἀλλήλων ἀναλωθῆτε

if & one_another ˱you_all˲_/are/_biting and ˱you_all˲_/are/_devouring /be/_watching_out lest by one_another ˱you_all˲_/may_be/_consumed_up

Paul is using a hypothetical situation to teach the Galatians what the results will be if they fight with each other. The result of consuming each other will happen if they fulfill the condition of biting and devouring one another. The word “then” is implied before the phrase watch out. If it would help your readers, you could supply this word in your translation. Alternate translation: “if you are biting and devouring one another, then watch out that you might not be consumed by one another”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

εἰ & ἀλλήλους δάκνετε καὶ κατεσθίετε

if & one_another ˱you_all˲_/are/_biting and ˱you_all˲_/are/_devouring

Here Paul speaks of the Galatian believers fighting each other as if they were wild animals that attack each other. If it would be helpful in your language, you could express the meaning plainly or use a simile. Alternate translation: “if you are mistreating and hurting one another” or “if you are acting like wild animals that bite and devour one another”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

μὴ ὑπ’ ἀλλήλων ἀναλωθῆτε

lest by one_another ˱you_all˲_/may_be/_consumed_up

Here Paul speaks of the Galatian believers fighting each other as if they were wild animals that eat each other. Here consumed could mean: (1) the believers themselves would be destroyed. Alternate translation: “you might not be destroyed by one another” (2) the fellowship of Galatian believers would be destroyed. Alternate translation: “your group of believers might not be destroyed by one another”

Note 4 topic: figures-of-speech / activepassive

μὴ ὑπ’ ἀλλήλων ἀναλωθῆτε

lest by one_another ˱you_all˲_/may_be/_consumed_up

If your language does not use the passive form in this way, you could state this in active form or in another way that is natural in your language. Alternate translation: “you might not consume one another”

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