KJV King James Version
For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.
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James 3:16
For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.
WEB World English Bible
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
ASV American Standard Version
For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
for where zeal and rivalry are, there is insurrection and every evil matter;
Surrounding context — James 3
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.
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.
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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James 3:14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.1 Corinthians 3:3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?1 Corinthians 14:33For God is not [the author] of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.1 John 3:12Not 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.Galatians 5:20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,Genesis 11:9Therefore 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 19:29And 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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