James 3:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

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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King James 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 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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