James 3:16
For where there is rivalry and strife, there is confusion and every evil work.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
In Context
15This wisdom is not that which descendeth from above, but earthly, sensual, devilish.
Cross References
Mark 3:25and if a house be divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand;
1 Corinthians 3:3for ye are yet unspiritual. For while there is among you rivalry and strife, are ye not unspiritual, and walking after the manner of men?
Galatians 5:20idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, rivalry, outbursts of wrath, cabals, divisions, factions,
1 John 3:12not as Cain was of the Evil One, and slew his brother. And wherefore 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 →