James 3:14

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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

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Bible References

If

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.

What is the source of quarrels and conflicts among you? Is not the source your pleasures that wage war in your members?

Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she became jealous of her sister; and she said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I die.”

His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

“For anger slays the foolish man,
And jealousy kills the simple.

A tranquil heart is life to the body,
But passion is rottenness to the bones.

Wrath is fierce and anger is a flood,
But who can stand before jealousy?

Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart,
And those who harass Judah will be cut off;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
And Judah will not harass Ephraim.

Why do You make me see iniquity,
And cause me to look on wickedness?
Yes, destruction and violence are before me;

Strife exists and contention arises.

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

But the high priest rose up, along with all his associates (that is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

“The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him,

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began contradicting the things spoken by Paul, and were blaspheming.

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

Let us

behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.

for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking

like mere men?

Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, angry tempers, disputes, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances;

But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ even from envy and strife, but some also from good will;

Do nothing from

selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;

he is conceited and understands nothing; but he has a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions,

For we also once were foolish ourselves, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Therefore, putting aside all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all

slander,

Glory

But if you bear the name “Jew” and rely upon the Law and boast in God,

For who regards you as superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?

You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.

And lie

He said, “Come with me and see my zeal for the Lord.” So he made him ride in his chariot.

They will make you outcasts from the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

“So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

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For the sake of my brothers and my friends,
I will now say, “May peace be within you.”

Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness.

But this crowd which does not know the Law is accursed.”

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

But if you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

But as it is, you boast in your arrogance; all such boasting is evil.