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 faction exist, there is confusion and every evil deed.

Where do the conflicts and quarrels that go on among you come from? Do they not come from your passions which are always making war among your bodily members?

He knew well that it was because of enmity that they had brought Jesus before him.

This aroused bitter indignation among the high priest and his followers who were of the sect of the Sadducees,

"The patriarchs out of jealousy sold Joseph into Egypt.

When they saw the crowds, the Jews were filled with jealousy, and began to contradict Paul's statements, and to abuse him.

They were overflowing with every kind of iniquity, depravity, greed, and malice. They were full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and malignity.

Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy;

You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings?

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,

For I dread that perhaps, when I come, I may not find you to be such as I wish, and that I may be found by you such as you do not wish; I dread lest there should be quarrels, jealousy, tempers, party spirit, slandering, gossip, arrogance, tumults;

But if you are always biting and devouring one another, take heed lest you be utterly consumed one by another.

Some indeed are preaching Christ out of envy and contentiousness, but others from good-will.

Do nothing out of strife, nothing out of vanity, but let each one in true humility consider the others to be of more account than himself.

he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions,

For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another.

Therefore put away all malice, all deceit, insincerity, jealousy, and slander of every sort.

Glory

Now if you bear the name of a Jew, and rely upon law, and boast yourself in God,

For who makes you a differ, brother? Or what have you that you did not receive? But if you did receive it, why are you boasting as if you had not received it?

Yet you are puffed up instead of mourning and removing from among you the man who has done this thing.

Even those who are being circumcised, are not themselves keeping the Law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may glory in your flesh.

And lie

"They will excommunicate you from their synagogues; indeed the time is coming when any one who kills you will suppose that he is doing God's service.

"I indeed once thought with myself that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus, the Nazarene.

General references

"Look carefully! Perhaps that very light of yours is darkness.

"As for this mob who do not understand the Law, they are accursed!"

because it was on his account that many of the Jews were leaving them, and beginning to believe on Jesus.

But if you are always biting and devouring one another, take heed lest you be utterly consumed one by another.

But now you are glorying in these insolent boastings of yours; all such glorying is evil.