James 3:16
For where there are envy and contention, there also are tumult and every thing that is evil.
The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge
In The King James Version
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
In Context
Cross References
Mark 3:25and if a house against itself be divided, that house cannot stand;
1 Corinthians 3:3For as yet you are in the flesh. For while there are among you envy and contentions and divisions, are you not carnal, and walking in the flesh?
Galatians 5:20the worship of idols, sorcery, enmity, contention, ambition, wrath, calumny, divisions, rendings,
1 John 3:12Not as Koen, who was from the Evil, and killed his brother. And on what account killed he him? unless that 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 →