James 3:16

World English Bible (2000)

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.
  • 1 John 3:12 : 12 unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
  • Gal 5:20 : 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,
  • 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,
  • Gen 11:9 : 9 Therefore its name was called Babel, because there Yahweh confused the language of all the earth. From there, Yahweh scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.
  • Acts 19:29 : 29 The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel.

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  • Jas 3:13-15
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    13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

    14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

    15This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

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

    18Now 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 fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?

  • Jas 4:4-5
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    4You adulterers and adulteresses, don't you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God.

    5Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously"?

  • Phil 1:15-16
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    15Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

    16The former insincerely preach Christ from selfish ambition, thinking that they add affliction to my chains;

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

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

  • Jas 4:1-2
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    1Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don't they come from your pleasures that war in your members?

    2You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.

  • Gal 5:20
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    20idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

  • Prov 16:28
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    28A perverse man stirs up strife. A whisperer separates close friends.

  • 2 Cor 12:20
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    20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don't desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

  • Prov 14:30
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    30The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

  • Prov 17:14
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    14The beginning of strife is like breaching a dam, therefore stop contention before quarreling breaks out.

  • Prov 13:10
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    10Pride only breeds quarrels, but with ones who take advice is wisdom.

  • Gal 5:26
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    26Let's not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

  • Job 5:2
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    2For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

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

    20for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.

  • Prov 6:14
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    14in whose heart is perverseness, who devises evil continually, who always 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, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

  • Jas 4:16
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    16But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

  • Prov 15:18
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    18A wrathful man stirs up contention, but one who is slow to anger appeases strife.

  • Prov 24:1
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    1Don't be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them:

  • Rom 1:29
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    29being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For we 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 the lust, when it has conceived, bears sin; and the sin, when it is full grown, brings forth death.

  • Prov 6:19
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    19a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.

  • 1 Cor 14:33
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    33for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace. As in all the assemblies of the saints,

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    12unlike Cain, who was of the evil one, and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.

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

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    8He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

  • 2 Thess 3:11
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    11For we hear of some who walk among you in rebellion, who don't work at all, but are busybodies.

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

  • 1 Pet 2:1
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    1Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

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

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

  • Prov 17:19
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    19He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.

  • Matt 15:19
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    19For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

  • Prov 18:1
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    1An unfriendly man pursues selfishness, and defies all sound judgment.

  • Mark 7:21-22
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    21For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,

    22covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.

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    11Destructive forces are within her. Threats and lies don't depart from her streets.

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    5But if 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 arouses the fury of the husband. He won't spare in the day of vengeance.