James 3:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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.

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

Genesis 11:9

Therefore was 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.

Genesis 38:9

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 he should give seed to his brother.

Mark 3:25

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

Acts 19:29

And the city was filled with the confusion: and they rushed with one accord into the theatre, having seized Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel.

Romans 2:8

but unto them that are factious, and obey not the truth, but obey unrighteousness, shall be wrath and indignation,

1 Corinthians 14:33

for God is not a God of confusion, but of peace; as in all the churches of the saints.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk after the manner of men?

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, heresies,

James 3:14

But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

1 John 3:12

not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother's righteous.