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James 3:14

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and deny the truth.

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For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.


Love is patient,  love is kind. Love does not envy,  is not boastful, is not arrogant,


Do nothing out of selfish ambition  or conceit,  but in humility  consider others as more important  than yourselves.


because you are still worldly. For since there is envy  and strife  , among you, are you not worldly and behaving like mere humans?


Let us walk with decency,  as in the daytime: not in carousing and drunkenness;  not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarrelling and jealousy.


For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and you may not find me to be what you want. Perhaps there will be quarrelling,  jealousy,  angry outbursts, selfish ambitions,  slander,  gossip, arrogance, and disorder.


To be sure, some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry,  but others out of good will.


My brothers and sisters, if any among you strays from the truth,  and someone turns him back,


Then the high priest rose up. He and all who were with him, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.


For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions  and pleasures,  living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.


he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in disputes and arguments over words.  From these come envy,  quarrelling,  slander,  evil suspicions,


And you are arrogant! Shouldn’t you be filled with grief  and remove from your congregation the one who did this?


but wrath and anger to those who are self-seeking  and disobey the truth  while obeying unrighteousness.


Fury is cruel, and anger a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?


A tranquil heart is life to the body, but jealousy is rottenness to the bones.


Yet Jehu was not careful to follow the instruction of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart. He did not turn from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.


For even the circumcised don’t keep  the law themselves, and yet they want you to be circumcised in order to boast about your flesh.


Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.


envy,  , drunkenness, carousing,  and anything similar. I am warning you about these things #– #as I warned you before #– #that those who practise such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.


But if you bite and devour  one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.


Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little leaven  , leavens the whole batch of dough?


Now if  you call yourself a Jew, and rely on the law,  and boast in God,


They are filled with all unrighteousness,  evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,


In fact, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things in opposition to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.


But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what Paul was saying, insulting him.


They will ban you from the synagogues.   In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering service   to God.


For he knew it was because of envy that they had handed him over.


Why do you force me to look at injustice? Why do you tolerate   wrongdoing? Oppression and violence are right in front of me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict escalates.


Ephraim’s envy will cease; Judah’s harassing will end. Ephraim will no longer be envious of Judah, and Judah will not harass Ephraim.


For anger kills a fool, and jealousy slays the gullible.


Then he said, ‘Come with me and see my zeal  for the Lord! ’ So he let him ride with him in his chariot.


His brothers were jealous of him,  but his father kept the matter in mind.


‘The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt, but God was with him


idolatry,  sorcery,  hatreds,  strife,  jealousy,  outbursts of anger,  selfish ambitions,  dissensions,  factions,


who wants everyone  to be saved  and to come to the knowledge of the truth.


By his own choice, he gave us birth by the word of truth so that we would be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.


But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he released his semen on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.





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