James 3:16
For where envy and strife are, there is commotion, and every evil work.
Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament
In The King James Version
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
In Context
15This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, animal, demoniac.
Cross References
Mark 3:25And if a house be divided against itself, that house can not stand.
1 Corinthians 3:3for you are yet carnal. For, since envy and strife and divisions are among you, are you not carnal, and do you not walk as men?
Galatians 5:20idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strifes, jealousies, anger, party-spirit, divisions, sects,
1 John 3:12Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and slew his brother: and for what reason did he slay him? because his own works were evil, and his brother’s, righteous.
Matthew Henry on James 3:14-18
Properties of Wisdom. ( a. d. 61.) 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be… Read the whole commentary →