James 3:16
For wherever envy and contention is, there too is inconstancy and every depraved work.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
In Context
15For this is not wisdom, descending from above, but rather it is earthly, beastly, and diabolical.
Cross References
Genesis 11:9And for this reason, its name was called ‘Babel,’ because in that place the language of the whole earth became confused. And from then on, the Lord scattered them across the face of every region.
Mark 3:25And if a house is divided against itself, that house is not able to stand.
1 Corinthians 3:3And since there is still envy and contention among you, are you not carnal, and are you not walking according to man?
Galatians 5:20the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions,
1 John 3:12Do not be like Cain, who was of the evil one, and who killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked, but his brother’s works were just.
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 →