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

2 Kings 10:16

John 16:2

Acts 26:9

General references

Bible References

If

For where [there is] jealousy and selfish ambition, there [is] disorder and every evil practice.

From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?

When Rachel saw that she could not bear children to Jacob, Rachel envied her sister. And she said to Jacob, "Give me children--if not, I will die!"

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter [in mind].

For vexation will slay the fool, and jealousy will kill [the] simple.

A heart of tranquility [is] life [to the] flesh, but causes bones of passion to rot.

Cruel [is] wrath and overwhelming [is] anger, but who will stand before jealousy?

And the jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and the enemies of Judah shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not be jealous [of] Judah, and Judah shall not be an enemy [of] Ephraim.

Why do you cause me to see evil [while] you look at trouble? Destruction and violence happen before me; contention and strife arise.

(For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy.

Now the high priest rose up and all those [who were] with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), [and] they were filled with jealousy.

And the patriarchs, [because they] were jealous of Joseph, sold [him] into Egypt. And God was with him,

But [when] the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and began contradicting what was being said by Paul [by] reviling [him].

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greediness, malice, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malevolence. [They are] gossipers,

Let us live decently, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and licentiousness, not in strife and jealousy.

for you are still fleshly. For where [there is] jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not live like [unregenerate] people?

Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, [it] does not boast, [it] does not become conceited,

For I am afraid lest somehow [when I] arrive, I will not find you as I want, and I may be found by you as you do not want. [I am afraid] lest somehow [there will be] strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, pride, disorder.

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out [that] you are not consumed by one another.

Some even because of envy and strife preach Christ, but some also because of good will.

[Do] nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves,

he is conceited, understanding nothing, but having a morbid interest concerning controversies and disputes about words, from which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions,

For we also were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in wickedness and envy, despicable, hating one another.

Therefore, ridding yourselves of all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander,

Glory

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God

For who concedes you [superiority]? And what do you have that you did not receive? But if indeed you received [it], why do you boast as [if you] did not receive [it]?

And you are inflated with pride, and should you not rather have mourned, so that the one who has done this deed would be removed from your midst?

For not even those who are circumcised observe the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised in order that they may boast in your flesh.

And lie

Then he said, "Come with me! Look at my zeal for Yahweh!" So he let him ride in his chariot.

{They will expel you from the synagogue}, but an hour is coming that everyone who kills you will think they are offering service to God.

Indeed, I myself thought it was necessary to do many [things] opposed to the name of Jesus the Nazarene,

General references

For the sake of my brothers and my friends, I will say, "Peace [be] within you."

Therefore pay careful attention [that] the light in you is not darkness!

But this crowd who does not know the law is accursed!"

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

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out [that] you are not consumed by one another.

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