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 jealousy and selfishness are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

What causes wars and fighting among you? Is the cause of fighting your sensual lusts for pleasure that battle within you?

Rachel had not borne Jacob any children. As a result, she became jealous of her sister and said to Jacob: Give me children, or I will die.

Joseph's brothers were jealous of him. His father kept thinking about the whole matter.

To be sure anger kills a stubborn fool. And jealousy murders a gullible person.

A sound heart is life for the body. Envy (jealousy) is like bone cancer (decay) (rottenness to the bones).

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart. Those who harass Judah will be destroyed. Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, and Judah will not harass Ephraim.

Why do you make me see wickedness and immorality? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife exists and contention arises.

He knew it was because of envy they gave him up.

Then the high priest rose up, and all those of the sect of the Sadducees who were with him were filled with zeal (indignation).

The family heads were jealous of Joseph and sold him as a slave into Egypt. However, God was with him.

When the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with envy. They spoke against those things Paul spoke. They contradicted and blasphemed him.

They are filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil mindedness; they are whisperers,

Let us walk honestly as in the daytime, not in rioting and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and loose conduct, not in strife and jealousy.

You are still fleshly! There is envy, strife, and divisions among you. Do you not walk as ordinary men?

Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not brag and is not arrogant (proud).

I am afraid that I may come and find you different from what I want you to be, and that you may find me different from what you want me to be. I fear that there may be rivalry, jealousy, hot tempers, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorderly conduct.

But if you continue to bite and devour one another, take care that you do not consume one another.

Some preach Christ from envy and strife and some from good will.

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility consider others more important than you.

he is proud, knows nothing, has a morbid interest in questions and disputes about words, which leads to envy, strife, abusive language, evil suspicions,

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.

Put away all badness and all deception, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil talk.

Glory

If you are a Jew in name and are resting on the law and taking glory in God,

For who made you superior to (different than) another? What do you have that you did not receive? If you did receive it, why do you brag, as if you did not receive it?

And you are proud! You should have been filled with sadness that he did this deed. And you should have ejected (expelled) (excommunicated) (disfellowshiped) him from your congregation.

For not even those who receive circumcision obey the Law. They desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

And lie

He said: Come with me and see how I am on fire with zeal for Jehovah's cause. So he made him go with him in his chariot.

They will throw you out of the synagogues. Yes, the hour comes that whoever kills you will think that he offered service to God.

I was convinced that I should oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

General references

For the sake of my brothers and friends let me say: May it go well for you!

Make sure the light that is in you is not darkness.

This crowd does not know the law. It is contemptible

This is because by reason of Lazarus many of the Jews believed in Jesus.

But if you continue to bite and devour one another, take care that you do not consume one another.

You glory in your conceit. Such glory is evil.