James 3:16
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.
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.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.
- KJV
- For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
- WEB
- For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
- ASV
- For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.
- DARBY
- For where emulation and strife [are], there [is] disorder and every evil thing.
- BLB
- For where jealousy and self-interest [are], there [are] disorder and every evil thing.
- ÅB
- for hvor der er avind og trettesyke, der er urede og alt det som ondt er.
- OTB
- For der misunnelse og egoistisk ambisjon finnes, er det uorden og all slags ond praksis.
- B1930
- for hvor der er avind og trettesyke, der er urede og alt det som ondt er.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Read in context1 Corinthians 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?
Read in context1 Corinthians 14:33
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
Read in context1 John 3:12
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.
Read in contextGalatians 5:20
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
Read in contextGenesis 11:9
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.
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