James 3:16

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • 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?
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 But if you have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
  • 1 John 3:12 : 12 Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
  • Gal 5:20 : 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousy, wrath, strife, seditious, heresies,
  • 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.
  • Gen 11:9 : 9 Therefore its name is called Babel, because the LORD confused the language of all the earth there, and from there the LORD scattered them abroad over 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 theater.

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  • Jas 3:13-15
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    13Who is wise and endowed with knowledge among you? Let him show by good conduct his works with the meekness of wisdom.

    14But if you have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

    15This wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

  • Jas 3:17-18
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    17But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

    18And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

  • 1 Cor 3:3
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    3For you are still carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are you not carnal, and walk as men?

  • Jas 4:4-5
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    4You 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.

    5Do you think that the Scripture says in vain, The spirit that dwells in us yearns jealously?

  • Phil 1:15-16
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    15Some indeed preach Christ even from envy and strife, and some also from goodwill:

    16The former preach Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my chains:

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4He is proud, knowing nothing, but obsessed with disputes and arguments over words, from which come envy, strife, reviling, evil suspicions,

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

  • Jas 4:1-2
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    1From where do wars and fights among you come? Do they not come from your desires that war within your members?

    2You 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.

  • Gal 5:20
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    20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousy, wrath, strife, seditious, heresies,

  • Prov 16:28
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    28A perverse man sows strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.

  • 2 Cor 12:20
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    20For 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;

  • Prov 14:30
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    30A sound heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.

  • Prov 17:14
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    14The beginning of strife is as when one lets out water, therefore leave off contention before it is meddled with.

  • Prov 13:10
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    10By pride comes only contention, but with the well advised is wisdom.

  • Gal 5:26
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    26Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

  • Job 5:2
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    2For anger kills the foolish man, and envy slays the simple one.

  • Jas 1:19-20
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    19Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger:

    20For the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

  • Prov 6:14
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    14Perversity is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

  • 1 John 2:16
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    16For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father, but is of the world.

  • Jas 4:16
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    16But now you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.

  • Prov 15:18
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    18A wrathful man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger calms strife.

  • Prov 24:1
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    1Do not be envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them.

  • Rom 1:29
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    29Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

  • Jas 1:15
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    15Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin: and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

  • Prov 6:19
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    19A false witness who speaks lies, and one who sows discord among brethren.

  • 1 Cor 14:33
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    33For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

  • 1 John 3:12
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    12Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

  • Prov 29:22
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    22An angry man stirs up strife, and a furious man abounds in transgression.

  • Jas 1:8
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    8A double-minded man is unstable in all his ways.

  • 2 Thess 3:11
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    11For we hear that there are some who walk among you disorderly, not working at all, but being busybodies.

  • Jas 3:10
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    10Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

  • 1 Pet 2:1
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    1Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

  • Ps 73:3
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    3For I was envious of the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

  • Rom 3:16
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    16'Destruction and misery are in their ways:'

  • Prov 17:19
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    19He who loves transgression loves strife, and he who exalts his gate seeks destruction.

  • Matt 15:19
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    19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

  • Prov 18:1
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    1Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeks and intermeddles with all wisdom.

  • Mark 7:21-22
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    21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,

    22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

  • Ps 55:11
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    11Wickedness is in the midst of it; deceit and guile do not depart from its streets.

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    5If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

  • Prov 6:34
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    34For jealousy is a husband's fury: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.