James 3:16

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For where there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.

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  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 For you are still worldly. Since there is jealousy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not worldly and living like mere humans?
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and deny the truth.
  • 1 John 3:12 : 12 Not like Cain, who was from the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil and his brother’s were righteous.
  • Gal 5:20 : 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,
  • 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
  • Gen 11:9 : 9 That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of the whole earth. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
  • Acts 19:29 : 29 The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed together to the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul's traveling companions.

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  • Jas 3:13-15
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    13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show his works by his good conduct with the humility that comes from wisdom.

    14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and deny the truth.

    15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above but is earthly, unspiritual, and demonic.

  • Jas 3:17-18
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    17 But the wisdom that comes from above is first pure, then peace-loving, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, and sincere.

    18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

  • 1 Cor 3:3
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    3 For you are still worldly. Since there is jealousy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not worldly and living like mere humans?

  • Jas 4:4-5
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    4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world means enmity against God? Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.

    5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit God caused to dwell in us longs jealously for us?

  • Phil 1:15-16
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    15 It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill.

    16 The latter do so out of love, knowing that I am put here for the defense of the gospel.

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and arguments about words, which result in envy, strife, slander, and evil suspicions.

  • Prov 27:4
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    4 Wrath is cruel and anger is a flood, but who can stand before jealousy?

  • Jas 4:1-2
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    1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within your body parts?

    2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.

  • Gal 5:20
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    20 idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,

  • Prov 16:28
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    28 A perverse person spreads conflict, and a gossip separates close friends.

  • 2 Cor 12:20
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    20 For I fear that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be strife, jealousy, anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

  • Prov 14:30
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    30 A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

  • Prov 17:14
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    14 Starting a quarrel is like letting out water; so stop the dispute before it breaks out.

  • Prov 13:10
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    10 Where there is pride, there is strife, but wisdom is found in those who take counsel.

  • Gal 5:26
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    26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

  • Job 5:2
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    2 For anger kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

  • Jas 1:19-20
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    19 My beloved brothers and sisters, let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to anger.

    20 For human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

  • Prov 6:14
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    14 He plots evil with deceit in his heart; he constantly stirs up dissension.

  • 1 John 2:16
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    16 For all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father, but is from the world.

  • Jas 4:16
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    16 But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.

  • Prov 15:18
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    18 A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict, but one who is patient calms a quarrel.

  • Prov 24:1
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    1 Do not envy wicked people or desire to be with them.

  • Rom 1:29
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    29 They have become filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, and malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

  • Titus 3:3
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    3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

  • Jas 1:15
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    15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.

  • Prov 6:19
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    19 a false witness who pours out lies, and one who stirs up conflict among brothers.

  • 1 Cor 14:33
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    33 For God is not a God of disorder but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

  • 1 John 3:12
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    12 Not like Cain, who was from the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil and his brother’s were righteous.

  • Prov 29:22
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    22 An angry man stirs up strife, and a hot-tempered man commits many transgressions.

  • Jas 1:8
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    8 Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all their ways.

  • 2 Thess 3:11
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    11 We hear that some among you are living idle lives, refusing to work and instead becoming busybodies.

  • Jas 3:10
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    10 Out of the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things should not be this way.

  • 1 Pet 2:1
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    1 Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and every kind of slander.

  • Ps 73:3
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    3 For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

  • Rom 3:16
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    16 Ruin and misery mark their paths.

  • Prov 17:19
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    19 Whoever loves transgression loves strife; whoever builds a high gate invites destruction.

  • Matt 15:19
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    19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, and slanders.

  • Prov 18:1
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    1 One who isolates himself seeks his own desires; he quarrels against all sound wisdom.

  • Mark 7:21-22
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    21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

    22 adulteries, greed, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

  • Ps 55:11
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    11 Day and night they surround it on its walls, and trouble and wickedness are within it.

  • Jas 1:5
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    5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without rebuke, and it will be given to him.

  • Prov 6:34
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    34 For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.