James 3:16 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

James 3:16 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
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.
1 John 3:12
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
Galatians 5:20
Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Topics

Anger Contention Envy Godliness Hatred Holiness Honesty Integrity

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-18)

As the sins before condemned arise from an affectation of being thought more wise than others, and being endued with more knowledge than they, so the apostle in these verses shows the difference between men’s pretending to be wise and their being really so, and between the wisdom which is from beneath (from earth or hell) and that which is from above. I. We have some account of true wisdom, with t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 16)

16. 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. He aims directly at men, obliquely at God, who makes men to differ.” strife--rivalry [Alford]. confusion--literally, “tumultuous anarchy”: both in society (translated “commotions,” L…