James 3:16

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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 langua 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 Medonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one cord 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.

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    15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

  • Jas 3:17-18
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    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 4:4-5
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    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.

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  • Phil 1:15-16
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    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:

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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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,

  • Prov 27:4
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    4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

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  • Gal 5:20
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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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    10 Only by ide 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.

  • Jas 1:19-20
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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 But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

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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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    10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

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