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James 3:14

James Moffatt - New Testament

But if you are cherishing bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on that — and be false to the truth.

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for wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there disorder reigns and every evil.

Love is very patient, very kind. Love knows no jealousy; love makes no parade, gives itself no airs,

never acting for private ends or from vanity, but humbly considering each other the better man,

you are still worldly. For with jealousy and quarrels in your midst, are you not worldly, are you not behaving like ordinary men?

let us live decorously as in the open light of day — no revelry or bouts of drinking, no debauchery or sensuality, no quarrelling or jealousy.

For I am afraid I may perhaps come and find you are not what I could wish, while you may find I am not what you could wish; I am afraid of finding quarrels, jealousy, temper, rivalry, slanders, gossiping, arrogance, and disorder —

Some of them, it is true, are actually preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, others from goodwill;

My brothers, if anyone of you goes astray from the truth and someone brings him back,

This filled the high priest Annas and his allies, the Sadducean party, with bitter jealousy;

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

is a conceited, ignorant creature, with a morbid passion for controversy and argument which only leads to envy, dissension, insults, insinuations,

And yet you are puffed up! You ought much rather to be mourning the loss of a member! Expel the perpetrator of such a crime!

but anger and wrath to those who are wilful, who disobey the Truth and obey wickedness —

Why, even the circumcision party do not observe the Law themselves! They merely want you to get circumcised, so as to boast over your flesh!

let us have no vanity, no provoking, no envy of one another.

envy, [murder], drinking bouts, revelry, and the like; I tell you beforehand as I have told you already, that people who indulge in such practices will never inherit the Realm of God.

(whereas, if you snap at each other and prey upon each other, take care in case you destroy one another).

Your boasting is no credit to you. Do you not know that a morsel of dough will leaven the whole lump?

If you bear the name of 'Jew,' relying on the Law, priding yourself on God,

till they are filled with all manner of wickedness, depravity, lust, and viciousness, filled to the brim with envy, murder, quarrels, intrigues, and malignity — slanderers,

I once believed it my duty indeed actively to oppose the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

But when the Jews saw the crowds they were filled with jealousy; they began to contradict what Paul said and to abuse him.

They will excommunicate you; indeed the time is coming when anyone who kills you will imagine he is performing a service to God.

(He knew quite well that Jesus had been delivered up out of envy.

Out of jealousy the patriarchs sold Joseph into Egypt; but God was with him,

idolatry, magic, quarrels, dissension, jealousy, temper, rivalry, factions, party-spirit,

to the God who desires all men to be saved and to attain the knowledge of the Truth.

It was his own will that we should be born by the Word of the truth, to be a kind of firstfruits among his creatures.




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