James 3:16
For where envying and contention is, there is inconstancy, and every evil work.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 earthly, sensual, devilish.
Cross References
Genesis 11:9And therefore the name thereof was called Babel, because there the language of the whole earth was confounded: and from thence the Lord scattered them abroad upon the face of all countries.
Mark 3:25And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
1 Corinthians 3:3For, whereas there is among you envying and contention, are you not carnal, and walk according to man ?
Galatians 5:20Idolatry, witchcrafts, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, quarrels, dissensions, sects,
1 John 3:12Not as Cain, who was of the wicked one, and killed his brother. And wherefore did he kill him? Because his own works were wicked: and his brother's 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 →