James 3:16
For where envyinge and stryfe is there is stablenes and all maner of evyll workes.
Tyndale New Testament
In The King James Version
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
In Context
15This wisdome descedeth not from a boue: but is erthy and naturall and divelisshe.
Cross References
Mark 3:25Or yf a housse be devided agaynste it silfe that housse cannot continue:
1 Corinthians 3:3For ye are yet carnall. As longe verely as ther is amonge you envyige stryfe and dissencion: are ye not carnall and walke after the manner of men?
Galatians 5:20ydolatrye witchecraft hatred variaunce zele wrath stryfe sedicion sectes
1 John 3:12not as Cayn which was of the wicked and slewe his brother. And wherfore slewe he him? Because his awne workes were evyll and his brothers good.
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 →