James 3:16

WEB

¹⁶For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

KJV

¹⁶For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

BSB

¹⁶For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.

FBV

¹⁶Wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition you'll also find confusion and all kinds of evil practices.

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Extra References

James 3:14

¹⁴But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

1 Corinthians 3:3

³for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

1 Corinthians 14:33

³³for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the assemblies of the saints.

1 John 3:12

¹²unlike Cain, who was of the evil one and killed his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his deeds were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

Galatians 5:20

²⁰idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

Genesis 11:9

⁹Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the language of all the earth. From there, the LORD scattered them abroad on the surface of all the earth.

Acts 19:29

²⁹The whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one accord into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul’s companions in travel.