James 3:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅπου γὰρ ζῆλος καὶ ἐριθεία, ἐκεῖ ἀκαταστασία καὶ πᾶν φαῦλον πρᾶγμα.

Transliteration

Where gar zēlos and eritheia, there akatastasia and every phaulon pragma.

Grammar Details

*gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
*zēlos*: nominative, masculine, singular - jealousy/zeal
*eritheia*: nominative, feminine, singular - selfish ambition/rivalry
*akatastasia*: nominative, feminine, singular - disorder/confusion
*phaulon*: accusative, neuter, singular - worthless/evil
*pragma*: nominative, neuter, singular - thing/deed/matter

Word Meanings

*zēlos*: jealousy/zeal/envy
*eritheia*: selfish ambition/rivalry/strife
*akatastasia*: disorder/confusion/instability
*phaulon*: worthless/evil/base/vile
*pragma*: thing/deed/matter/practice

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?
Jas 3:14 : 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.
1 John 3:12 : 12 not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore {G5101} slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Gal 5:20 : 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,
1 Cor 14:33 : 33 for God is not [a God] of confusion, but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,
Gen 11:9 : 9 Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
Acts 19:29 : 29 And the city was filled with the confusion: and they rushed with one accord into the theatre, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel.

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