James 3:16 - English Majority Text Version 2009

¹⁶ For where jealousy and strife [exist], there unrest and every evil deed [are].

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ 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)

¹⁶ For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ Wherever there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and everything that is evil.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ For wherever envy and contention is, there too is inconstancy and every depraved work.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ 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 against itself, that household is not able to stand.

Acts 19:29

And the whole city was filled with confusion, and they rushed with one purpose into the theater, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians, traveling companions of Paul.

Romans 2:8

But to those who are contentious, and who disobey the truth, but obey unrighteousness-indignation and wrath,

1 Corinthians 14:33

For God is not [the author] of confusion but of peace. As in all the churches of the saints,

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal, and walking according to human principles?

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid, lest perhaps when I come, I will not find you as I desire, and that I will be found by you as you do not desire; lest perhaps there[ be] contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, disputes, slanders, gossipings, pride, disorders;

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,

James 3:14

But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.

1 John 3:12

not as Cain who was of the evil one and slew his brother. And for what reason did he slay him? Because his works were evil and the [works] of his brother were righteous.