James 3:16

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
  • 1 John 3:12 : 12 Not as Cain, [who] was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
  • Gal 5:20 : 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
  • 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
  • Gen 11:9 : 9 Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
  • Acts 19:29 : 29 And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.

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    3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

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    15Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

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    4He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

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    19¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

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