James 3:16 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

¹⁶ For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.

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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.

James 3:16 Cross References

Genesis 11:9

Therefore it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth; and from there the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

Genesis 38:9

But since Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, he spilled his semen on the ground whenever he went in to his brother's wife, so that he would not give offspring to his brother.

Mark 3:25

And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.

Acts 19:29

The city was filled with the confusion; and people rushed together to the theater, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Macedonians who were Paul's travel companions.

Romans 2:8

while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

1 Corinthians 14:33

for God is a God not of disorder but of peace. (As in all the churches of the saints,

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still of the flesh. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving according to human inclinations?

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that when I come, I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions,

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be boastful and false to the truth.

1 John 3:12

We must not be like Cain who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's righteous.