James 3:16 KJV — MannaFest

James 3:16

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

KJV

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WEB

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.

ASV

For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

YLT

for where zeal and rivalry are , there is insurrection and every evil matter;

DBT

For where emulation and strife [are], there [is] disorder and every evil thing.

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James — The Lord's brother writes to the twelve tribes scattered abroad — five chapters of direct, practical wisdom on the life faith produces. Pure religion, the tongue, the prayer of the righteous.

Author: James the Lord's brother (traditional — cf. Gal 1:19), leader of the Jerusalem church
Date: Early — possibly mid-40s AD, making it likely the earliest NT letter

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17 verses on the floor

Matthew 5:9
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Romans 12:18
If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
1 Corinthians 3:3
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
1 Corinthians 14:33
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.

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Your zeal for truth or orthodoxy, and your boasts of knowing more than others, if you employ these only to make others hateful, and to show your own spite and heart-burnings against them, are a shame to your profession of Christianity, and a downright contradiction to it. Lie not thus against the truth." Observe, 1. Envying and strife are opposed to the meekness of wisdom.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

One sin begets another, and it cannot be imagined how much mischief is produced: there is every evil work. And is such wisdom as produces these effects to be gloried in? This cannot be without giving the lie to Christianity, and pretending that this wisdom is what it is not.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

envying--So English Version translates the Greek, which usually means "zeal"; "emulation," in Ro 13:13. "The envious man stands in his own light. He thinks his candle cannot shine in the presence of another's sun.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JAS 3:16JAS 3:14 1CO 13:4
JAS 3:161CO 14:33 JAS 3:17-18
JAS 3:161CO 14:33 1CO 14:40
JAS 3:161CO 14:33 2TH 3:16
JAS 3:161CO 14:33 GAL 5:22
JAS 3:16JAS 3:14 PHP 2:3
JAS 3:161CO 14:33 1CO 11:16
JAS 3:16JAS 3:14 2CO 12:20
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