James 3:14

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Summary

James 3:14

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

If

Glory

And lie

John 16:2

Acts 26:9

General references

James 4:16

Bible References

If

For wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there will be confusion and all sorts of evil practices.

What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.

For he knew that they had turned Him over to the court out of envy.

Now the high priest took a stand, and all his friends, the party of the Sadducees; and being filled with jealousy,

And the patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were completely overcome by their jealousy and began to contradict the statements made by Paul, and even to abuse him.

because they overflow with every sort of evil-doing, wickedness, greed, and malice; they are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, ill-will;

Let us live becomingly for people who are in the light of day, not in carousing and drunkenness, nor in sexual immorality and licentiousness, nor in quarreling and jealousy.

for you are still unspiritual. For when there are still jealousy and wrangling among you, are you not still unspiritual and living by a human standard?

Love is so patient and so kind; love never boils with jealousy; it never boasts, is never puffed with pride;

I repeat it, I am apprehensive that, somehow or other, there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, rivalries, slanders, gossiping, haughty pride, and disorders,

But if you continue to bite and eat one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another.

Some, indeed, are actually preaching Christ because they are moved by jealousy and partisanship, but others are doing so from the motive of good will;

Stop acting from motives of selfish strife or petty ambition, but in humility practice treating one another as your superiors.

he is a conceited ignoramus with a morbid appetite for discussions and controversies which lead to envy, quarreling, abuse, base suspicions,

For once we too were without understanding, disobedient, misled, habitual slaves to all sorts of passions and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy.

So once for all get rid of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all sorts of slander,

Glory

Now if you call yourself a Jew, and rely on law, and boast about God,

For who makes you superior? And what do you have that you did not get from someone? But if you got it from someone, why do you boast as though you had not?

And yet, you are proud of it, instead of being sorry for it, and seeing to it that the man who has done this be removed from your membership!

Indeed, the very men who let themselves be circumcised do not themselves observe the law. But they simply want you to let yourselves be circumcised, so that they can boast of you as members of their party.

And lie

Men will turn you out of their synagogues. Yes, indeed, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think that he is rendering a religious service to God.

I myself, indeed, once thought it my duty to take extreme measures in hostility to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

General references

So be on your guard that the very source of light in you is not darkness.

But this mob, which knows nothing about the law, is bound to be accursed!"

for on account of him many of the Jews were leaving them and believing in Jesus.

But if you continue to bite and eat one another, beware lest you are destroyed by one another.

But, as it is, you boast of your proud pretensions. All such boasting is wicked.