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 there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice.

Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?

When Rachel saw that she could not give Jacob children, she became jealous of her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children or I'll die!"

His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what Joseph said.

For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

A tranquil spirit revives the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.

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

Ephraim's jealousy will end, and Judah's hostility will be eliminated. Ephraim will no longer be jealous of Judah, and Judah will no longer be hostile toward Ephraim.

Why do you force me to witness injustice? Why do you put up with wrongdoing? Destruction and violence confront me; conflict is present and one must endure strife.

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

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

The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they began to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him.

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.

For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

So get rid of all evil 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 of your relationship to God

For who concedes you any superiority? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you received it, why do you boast as though you did not?

And you are proud! Shouldn't you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

And lie

Jehu said, "Come with me and see how zealous I am for the Lord's cause." So he took him along in his chariot.

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Of course, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

General references

For the sake of my brothers and my neighbors I will say, "May there be peace in you!"

Therefore see to it that the light in you is not darkness.

But this rabble who do not know the law are accursed!"

for on account of him many of the Jewish people from Jerusalem were going away and believing in Jesus.

However, if you continually bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

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