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Verse 14

But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

Referenced Verses

Jas 3:16 : 16 For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.
Phil 2:3 : 3 Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;
2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;
1 Cor 3:3 : 3 Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?
Phil 1:15 : 15 Though some are preaching Christ out of envy and competition, others do it out of a good heart:
Rom 13:13 : 13 With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.
1 Cor 13:4 : 4 Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride;
Acts 5:17 : 17 But the high priest and those who were with him (the Sadducees) were full of envy,
Acts 7:9 : 9 And the brothers, moved with envy against Joseph, gave him to the Egyptians for money: but God was with him,
Acts 13:45 : 45 But when the Jews saw such a great number of people, they were full of envy and said evil words against Paul's preaching.
Acts 26:9 : 9 For I, truly, was of the opinion that it was right for me to do a number of things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
Rom 1:29 : 29 Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;
Rom 2:8 : 8 But to those who, from a love of competition, are not guided by what is true, will come the heat of his wrath,
Rom 2:17 : 17 But as for you who have the name of Jew, and are resting on the law, and take pride in God,
Rom 2:23-29 : 23 You who take pride in the law, are you doing wrong to the honour of God by behaviour which is against the law? 24 For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings. 25 It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not. 26 If those who have not circumcision keep the rules of the law, will it not be credited to them as circumcision? 27 And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision. 28 The true Jew is not one who is only so publicly, and circumcision is not that which may be seen in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew who is a secret one, whose circumcision is of the heart, in the spirit and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
Gen 30:1-2 : 1 Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living. 2 But Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said, Am I in the place of God, who has kept your body from having fruit?
Gen 37:11 : 11 And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind.
2 Kgs 10:16 : 16 And he said, Come with me and see how I am on fire for the Lord's cause. So he made him go with him in his carriage.
2 Kgs 10:31 : 31 But Jehu did not take care to keep the law of the Lord with all his heart: he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam did and made Israel do.
Job 5:2 : 2 For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.
Prov 14:30 : 30 A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.
Prov 27:4 : 4 Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?
Isa 11:13 : 13 And the envy of Ephraim will be gone, and those who make trouble for Judah will come to an end: Ephraim will have no more envy of Judah, and there will be an end of Judah's hate for Ephraim.
Hab 1:3 : 3 Why do you make me see evil-doing, and why are my eyes fixed on wrong? for wasting and violent acts are before me: and there is fighting and bitter argument.
Matt 27:18 : 18 For he saw that for envy they had given him up.
John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the Synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever puts you to death will have the belief that he is doing God's pleasure.
1 Tim 6:4 : 4 He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,
Titus 3:3 : 3 For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.
Jas 4:1-5 : 1 What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies? 2 You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it. 3 You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure. 4 O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God. 5 Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?
Jas 5:19 : 19 My brothers, if one of you has gone out of the way of the true faith and another has made him see his error,
1 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk, 2 Be full of desire for the true milk of the word, as babies at their mothers' breasts, so that you may go on to salvation;
1 Cor 4:7-8 : 7 For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you? 8 For even now you are full, even now you have wealth, you have been made kings without us: truly, I would be glad if you were kings, so that we might be kings with you.
1 Cor 5:2 : 2 And in place of feeling sorrow, you are pleased with yourselves, so that he who has done this thing has not been sent away from among you.
1 Cor 5:6 : 6 This pride of yours is not good. Do you not see that a little leaven makes a change in all the mass?
Gal 5:15 : 15 But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.
Gal 5:21 : 21 Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.
Gal 5:26 : 26 Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.
Gal 6:13 : 13 Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.