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 where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

Whence come wars and fightings among you? Come they not hence? even of your carnal appetites making war in your bodies?

Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ? for he knew that out of envy they had delivered Him up.

Then the high priest rose up, and all that were with him, (being of the sect of the sadducees,) and were filled with rage:

And the patriarchs, envying him, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, opposing and reviling him.

being filled with all injustice, lewdness, wickedness, covetousness, malignity; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and every evil habit; whisperers,

Let us behave decently as being in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lasciviousness, not in strife and envying.

Because ye are still carnal: for while there is among you envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?

Charity beareth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity is not insolent, is not puffed up,

For I am afraid least when I come, I should not find you such as I could wish, and I should be found to you such as ye would not: least there should be contentions, emulations, animosities, strifes, thwartings, whisperings, swellings, tumults: and least,

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not destroyed by one another.

Some indeed through envy and strife, and some also through good-will:

Do nothing through strife or vain-glory, but in lowliness of mind each esteeming others better than themselves.

he is proud, knowing nothing, but is delirious about questions and strifes of words: from which cometh envy, contention, calumnies, wicked suspicions, perverse debates of men corrupted in mind,

For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, going astray, enslaved to various disorderly appetites and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Therefore laying aside all malice, and all deceit, and hypocrisies,

Glory

Behold thou art called a Jew, and restest on the law, and boastest in God,

For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou, which thou didst not receive? And if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?

And are ye puffed up, and have not rather grieved? that he who hath committed this fact might be expelled from among you?

For they, who are circumcised, do not themselves keep the law: but they would have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

And lie

for they will excommunicate you: yea, the time is coming, that whosoever killeth you, will think that he offers an acceptable service to God.

I indeed once thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene:

General references

Take heed therefore least the light which is in thee be darkness.

but these people, who know not the law, are cursed.

Because on his account many of the Jews went away from them, and believed on Jesus.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not destroyed by one another.

but ye glory in your presumption: all such glorying is wicked.