James 3:16 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

For when jealousy and rivalry exist, there is [also] disorder and every [kind of] evil practice.

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King 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.

James 3:16 Cross References

Mark 3:25

And if a household is divided [by strife] within, that household will never last.

Acts 19:29

The city became full of confusion; they grabbed Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s Macedonian traveling companions, and everyone together rushed into the amphitheater.

Romans 2:8

But to the ones who have selfish ambition [Note: Some translate these words “are contentious”] and refuse to obey the truth, but [instead] obey what is wrong, [God will bring] wrath, fury,

1 Corinthians 14:33

because God is not a God of disorder but of peace [i.e., harmony]. As is the practice in all of the churches of the saints [i.e., God’s holy people],

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still worldly [minded]. And since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, is that not evidence that you are [still] worldly and living like [unspiritual] people?

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid that somehow, when I come [to you], I might not find you the way I want you to be, and you might not find me the way you want me to be. I am afraid there might be quarrelling, jealousy, angry outbursts, factious spirits, slander, gossip, arrogance and [other] disturbances [there].

Galatians 5:20

idol worship, occultic practices, hatefulness, dissension, jealousy, angry outbursts, factious spirits, divisiveness, party spirits,

James 3:14

But if you people have bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not be arrogant [over it] and deny the truth.

1 John 3:12

not [hate each other] the way Cain did, who belonged to the evil one [i.e., Satan], when he murdered his brother [Abel]. And why did he murder him? It was because his [own] actions were evil and his brother’s were righteous [See Heb. 11:4].