James 3:16

For where envy and contention are, there also is confusion, and every thing wrong.

James Murdock's Translation of the Syriac Peshitta

In The King James Version

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

In Context

15For this wisdom cometh not down from above; but is earthly, and from the devices of the soul, and from demons.

17But the wisdom which is from above, is pure, and full of peace, and mild, and submissive, and full of compassion and of good fruits, and without partiality, and without respect of persons.

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Cross References

Mark 3:25And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.

1 Corinthians 3:3For ye are still in the flesh. For, as there are among you envying, and contention, and parties, are ye not carnal, and walking in the flesh?

Galatians 5:20idol-worship, magic, malice, contention, rivalry, wrath, strife, divisions, discords,

1 John 3:12Not like Cain, who was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And why did he slay him, but because his own works were evil, and those of his brother 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 →

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