James 3:14

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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

2 Kings 10:16

John 16:2

Acts 26:9

General references

Bible References

If

For where envy and selfish ambition are, there is instability and every evil deed.

From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts?

And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no sons, Rachel envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, Give me sons, or else I die.

And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.

A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Also the envy of Ephraim shall depart, and those who vex Judah shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.

For he knew that they delivered him up because of envy.

But after rising up, the high priest and all those with him (being the sect of the Sadducees) were filled of envy.

And the patriarchs, being envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him,

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled of envy, and contradicted the things spoken by Paul, contradicting and slandering.

having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;

Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy.

for ye are still carnal. For whereas among you is envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?

Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up.

For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, t

But if ye bite and devour each other, watch out that ye be not consumed by each other.

Actually some also preach the Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good-will.

in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves.

he is puffed up, understanding nothing, but doting about disputes and word controversies, from which develop envy, strife, revilings, evil surmisings,

For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.

Therefore, having put off all evil and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking,

Glory

Behold, thou are called a Jew, and rely upon the law, and boast in God,

For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?

And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you.

For not even those who have been circumcised themselves keep law, but they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast in thy flesh.

And lie

And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.

They will make you excommunicated from the synagogues. But the hour comes that every man who kills you will presume to be offering service to God.

Indeed therefore I thought it necessary for myself to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene,

General references

For my brothers and companions' sakes I will now say, Peace be within thee.

Watch therefore the light in thee not be darkness.

But this multitude that does not know the law are accursed.

since because of him many of the Jews were going and were believing in Jesus.

But if ye bite and devour each other, watch out that ye be not consumed by each other.

But now ye boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil.