James 3:16

Modern

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

Traditional

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

Literal

For where jealousy and self-interest are, there are disorder and every evil thing.

Latin

Ubi enim zelus et contentio, ibi inconstantia et omne opus pravum.

Greek

English

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

Theme notes and profiles

James 3:14
But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
1 Corinthians 3:3
…for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
1 Corinthians 14:33
For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints.
1 John 3:12
Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.
Galatians 5:20
…idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,
Genesis 11:9
That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
Acts 19:29
Soon the whole city was in disarray. They rushed together into the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s traveling companions from Macedonia.