James 3:14

KJV1611 – Modern English

But if you have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

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  • Jas 3:16 : 16 For where envy and strife are, there is confusion and every evil work.
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vanity; but in humility let each consider others better than themselves.
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you as I wish, and that I shall be found by you such as you wish not; lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 For you are still carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?
  • Phil 1:15 : 15 Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from goodwill:
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.
  • 1 Cor 13:4 : 4 Love is patient, and is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast, is not proud,
  • Acts 5:17 : 17 Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with indignation,
  • Acts 7:9 : 9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt, but God was with him,
  • Acts 13:45 : 45 But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with envy, and spoke against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
  • Acts 26:9 : 9 I truly thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
  • Rom 1:29 : 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,
  • Rom 2:8 : 8 But to those who are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
  • Rom 2:17 : 17 Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest in the law, and make your boast of God,
  • Rom 2:23-29 : 23 You who make your boast of the law, through breaking the law do you dishonor God? 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is written. 25 For circumcision truly profits if you keep the law: but if you are a breaker of the law, your circumcision is made uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcised keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision? 27 And shall not the uncircumcised which is by nature, if it fulfills the law, judge you, who by the letter and circumcision transgress the law? 28 For he is not a Jew who is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not from men, but from God.
  • Gen 30:1-2 : 1 When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister and said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I die." 2 Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
  • Gen 37:11 : 11 And his brothers envied him; but his father observed the saying.
  • 2 Kgs 10:16 : 16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
  • 2 Kgs 10:31 : 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For anger kills the foolish man, and envy slays the simple one.
  • Prov 14:30 : 30 A sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.
  • Prov 27:4 : 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous, but who can stand before envy?
  • Isa 11:13 : 13 The envy of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
  • Hab 1:3 : 3 Why do You show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; there are those who raise up strife and contention.
  • Matt 27:18 : 18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
  • John 16:2 : 2 They will put you out of the synagogues: yes, the time is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
  • 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
  • Jas 4:1-5 : 1 From where do wars and fights among you come? Do they not come from your desires that war within your members? 2 You desire and do not have; you kill, and covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, that you may spend it on your desires. 4 You adulterers and adulteresses, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore, whoever wants to be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us yearns jealously?
  • Jas 5:19 : 19 Brethren, if any of you stray from the truth, and someone turns him back;
  • 1 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, 2 As newborn babies, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby:
  • 1 Cor 4:7-8 : 7 For who makes you different from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? Now if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it? 8 Now you are full, now you are rich! You have reigned as kings without us—and indeed, I wish you did reign, that we also might reign with you!
  • 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 And you are arrogant, and have not rather mourned, so that he who has done this deed might be removed from among you.
  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
  • Gal 5:15 : 15 But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another.
  • Gal 5:21 : 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
  • Gal 6:13 : 13 For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh.

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