James 3:16
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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13 ¶ Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.
- Jas 3:17-182 verses78%
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
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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 4:4-52 verses73%
4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
- Phil 1:15-162 verses73%
15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
16 The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:
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4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
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4 Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?
- Jas 4:1-22 verses70%
1 ¶ From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?
2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
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20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
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28 A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.
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20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and [that] I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest [there be] debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
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30 ¶ A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
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14 ¶ The beginning of strife [is as] when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
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10 ¶ Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised [is] wisdom.
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26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
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2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
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19 ¶ Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:
20 For the wrath of man worketh not the righteousness of God.
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14 Frowardness [is] in his heart, he deviseth mischief continually; he soweth discord.
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16 For all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
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16 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
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18 ¶ A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but [he that is] slow to anger appeaseth strife.
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1 ¶ Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
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29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
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3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.
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15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
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19 A false witness [that] speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
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33 For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
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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.
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22 ¶ An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
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8 A double minded man [is] unstable in all his ways.
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11 For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies.
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10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
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1 ¶ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
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3 For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
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16 Destruction and misery [are] in their ways:
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19 ¶ He loveth transgression that loveth strife: [and] he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
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19 ‹For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:›
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1 ¶ Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh [and] intermeddleth with all wisdom.
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21 ‹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,›
22 ‹Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:›
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11 Wickedness [is] in the midst thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streets.
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5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all [men] liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
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34 For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.