Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
James 3:16 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For wherever there is jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry and selfish ambition), there will also be confusion (unrest, disharmony, rebellion) and all sorts of evil and vile practices. American Standard Version (1901) For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. Common English Bible Wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and everything that is evil. Catholic Public Domain Version For wherever envy and contention is, there too is inconstancy and every depraved work. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For where envying and contention is, there is inconstancy, and every evil work. |
Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.
And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother's wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gai´us and Aristar´chus, men of Macedo´nia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theater.
but unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.