James 3:16
For where envy and rivalry exist, there you will also find disorder and all kinds of bad, worthless actions.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
In Context
15That is not the wisdom which comes from above; no, it is earthly, animalistic, demonic.
Cross References
Genesis 11:9That is why they named it Babel, for there the Lord confused the language of all the inhabitants of earth and scattered them over the whole world.
Mark 3:25and when a household is divided against itself, it will not be able to last.
1 Corinthians 3:3While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other people do?
Galatians 5:20idolatry, sorcery, quarrels, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
1 John 3:12We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. Why did he kill him? Because his actions were evil, and his brother’s were 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 →