For where envying and strife {is}, there {is} confusion and every evil work. {confusion: Gr. tumult, or, unquietness}

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, {and} hating one another.

That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

From whence {come} wars and fightings among you? {come they} not hence, {even} of your lusts that war in your members? {fightings: or, brawlings} {lusts: or, pleasures}

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and {that} I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest {there be} debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are {these}; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. {honestly: or, decently}

For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them {which are of the house} of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. {divisions: or, schisms}

That he no longer should live the rest of {his} time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:

Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: {covetousness...: Gr. covetousnesses, wickednesses}

But they like men have transgressed the covenant: there have they dealt treacherously against me. {men: or, Adam}

For where envying and strife {is}, there {is} confusion and every evil work. {confusion: Gr. tumult, or, unquietness}

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are {these}; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

{Let} nothing {be done} through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. {divisions: or, schisms}

Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.

And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, {even} as unto babes in Christ.

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

Charity suffereth long, {and} is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, {vaunteth...: or, is not rash}

And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

That there should be no schism in the body; but {that} the members should have the same care one for another. {schism: or, division}

Concerning the works of men, by the word of thy lips I have kept {me from} the paths of the destroyer.

There was a division therefore again among the Jews for these sayings.

Whose end {is} destruction, whose God {is their} belly, and {whose} glory {is} in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

And they came unto John, and said unto him, Rabbi, he that was with thee beyond Jordan, to whom thou barest witness, behold, the same baptizeth, and all {men} come to him.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your Master, {even} Christ; and all ye are brethren.

The way of man {is} froward and strange: but {as for} the pure, his work {is} right.

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but {is} earthly, sensual, devilish. {sensual: or, natural}

Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened {bread} of sincerity and truth. {the feast: or, holyday}

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram's cattle and the herdmen of Lot's cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and {that} I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest {there be} debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

For while one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I {am} of Apollos; are ye not carnal?

For it hath been declared unto me of you, my brethren, by them {which are of the house} of Chloe, that there are contentions among you.

And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, {and} that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!

Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, {beguile...: or, judge against you} {in a...: Gr. being a voluntary in humility}

He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, {proud: or, a fool} {doting: or, sick}