Jas 3:14
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
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For where envying and strife {is}, there {is} confusion and every evil work. {confusion: Gr. tumult, or, unquietness}
Charity suffereth long, {and} is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, {vaunteth...: or, is not rash}
{Let} nothing {be done} through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas {there is} among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? {divisions: or, factions} {as men: Gr. according to man?}
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 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:
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, {and} hating one another.
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}
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
A sound heart {is} the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin. {took...: Heb. observed not}
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
Wrath {is} cruel, and anger {is} outrageous; but who {is} able to stand before envy? {Wrath...: Heb. Wrath is cruelty, and anger an overflowing} {envy: or, jealousy?}
Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, {indignation: or, envy}
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
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}
The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
Your glorying {is} not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one. {envy: or, indignation}
Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause {me} to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence {are} before me: and there are {that} raise up strife and contention.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
For who maketh thee to differ {from another}? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive {it}, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received {it}? {maketh...: Gr. distinguisheth thee}
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.
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told {you} in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
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.
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
{Let} nothing {be done} through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
For where envying and strife {is}, there {is} confusion and every evil work. {confusion: Gr. tumult, or, unquietness}
Charity suffereth long, {and} is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, {vaunteth...: or, is not rash}
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are {these}; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
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}
Thus saith the LORD, Let not the wise {man} glory in his wisdom, neither let the mighty {man} glory in his might, let not the rich {man} glory in his riches:
Do all things without murmurings and disputings:
Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but {he that is} slow to anger appeaseth strife.
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends. {soweth: Heb. sendeth forth}
And when his disciples James and John saw {this}, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elias did?
Wrath {is} cruel, and anger {is} outrageous; but who {is} able to stand before envy? {Wrath...: Heb. Wrath is cruelty, and anger an overflowing} {envy: or, jealousy?}
So likewise shall my heavenly Father do also unto you, if ye from your hearts forgive not every one his brother their trespasses.
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.
A false witness {that} speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.
He loveth transgression that loveth strife: {and} he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
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!
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.
Because that by reason of him many of the Jews went away, and believed on Jesus.
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}
And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should have been pulled in pieces of them, commanded the soldiers to go down, and to take him by force from among them, and to bring {him} into the castle.
And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel {are} more and mightier than we:
And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more {right} in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel. {despise...: Heb. set us at light}
Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised {is} wisdom.
{It is} an honour for a man to cease from strife: but every fool will be meddling.
Salt {is} good: but if the salt have lost his saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and have peace one with another.
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}
Husbands, love {your} wives, and be not bitter against them.
But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation, {indignation: or, envy}
And when the ten heard {it}, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.
Then I cut asunder mine other staff, {even} Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel. {Bands: or, Binders}
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 he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I {will chastise you} with scorpions.
And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father {also} chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled {it} on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
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.
The beginning of strife {is as} when one letteth out water: therefore leave off contention, before it be meddled with.
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;