Galatians 5:15
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.

Young's Literal Translation
and if one another ye do bite and devour, see—that ye may not by one another be consumed.

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

Greek
But
δὲ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

if
εἰ (ei)
Conjunction
Strong's 1487: If. A primary particle of conditionality; if, whether, that, etc.

you keep on biting
δάκνετε (daknete)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1143: To bite; hence: I backbite, harm seriously. A prolonged form of a primary root; to bite, i.e. thwart.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

devouring
κατεσθίετε (katesthiete)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 2719: To eat up, eat till it is finished, devour, squander, annoy, injure. From kata and esthio; to eat down, i.e. Devour.

each other,
ἀλλήλους (allēlous)
Personal / Reciprocal Pronoun - Accusative Masculine Plural
Strong's 240: One another, each other. Genitive plural from allos reduplicated; one another.

watch out,
βλέπετε (blepete)
Verb - Present Imperative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 991: (primarily physical), I look, see, perceive, discern. A primary verb; to look at.

[or]
μὴ (mē)
Adverb
Strong's 3361: Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.

you will be consumed
ἀναλωθῆτε (analōthēte)
Verb - Aorist Subjunctive Passive - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 355: From ana and a form of the alternate of haireomai; properly, to use up, i.e. Destroy.

by
ὑπ’ (hyp’)
Preposition
Strong's 5259: A primary preposition; under, i.e. of place, or with verbs; of place (underneath) or where (below) or time (when).

each other.
ἀλλήλων (allēlōn)
Personal / Reciprocal Pronoun - Genitive Masculine Plural
Strong's 240: One another, each other. Genitive plural from allos reduplicated; one another.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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