James 3:16
For, where envy and rivalry exist, there you will also find disorder and all kinds of base actions.
Twentieth Century New Testament
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, animal, devilish.
Cross References
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 men 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 killed his brother. And why did he kill him? It was because his life was bad while his brother’s was 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 →