James 3:14

Legacy Standard Bible

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

Cross References

Genesis 37:11

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

Genesis 38:9

And Onan knew that the seed would not be his; and it happened that when he went in to his brother’s wife, he wasted it on the ground in order not to give seed to his brother.

2 Kings 10:16

Then he said, “Come with me and see my zeal for Yahweh.” So he made him ride in his chariot.

2 Kings 10:31

But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart; he did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel sin.

Job 5:2

“For vexation kills the ignorant fool, And jealousy puts to death the simple.

Proverbs 14:30

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

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruelty and anger is a flood, But who can stand before jealousy?

Isaiah 11:13

Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, And those who assail Judah will be cut off; Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, And Judah will not assail Ephraim.

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do You make me see wickedness And cause me to look on trouble? Indeed, devastation and violence are before me; And there is strife, and contention is lifted up.

Matthew 27:18

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered Him over.

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogue, but an hour is coming for everyone who kills you to think that he is offering service to God.

Acts 13:45

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began contradicting the things spoken by Paul, blaspheming.

Acts 26:9

“So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

Acts 5:17

But the high priest rose up and those with him (that is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

Acts 7:9

“And the patriarchs, becoming jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him,

Romans 1:29

having been filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

Romans 13:13

Let us walk properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy.

Romans 2:17

But if you bear the name “Jew” and rely upon the Law and boast in God,

Romans 2:8

but to those who are selfishly ambitious and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, wrath and anger.

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient, love is kind, is not jealous, does not brag, is not puffed up;

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still fleshly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and are you not walking like mere men?

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you have become puffed up and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you to be not what I wish and may be found by you to be not what you wish; that perhaps there will be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, slanders, gossip, arrogance, disturbances.

Galatians 5:15

But if you bite and devour one another, beware that you are not consumed by one another.

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions,

Galatians 5:21

envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:26

Let us not become those with vain glory, challenging one another, envying one another.

Galatians 6:13

For those who are circumcised do not even keep the Law themselves, but they want to have you circumcised so that they may boast in your flesh.

Philippians 1:15

Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ even from envy and strife, but some also from good will;

Philippians 2:3

doing nothing from selfish ambition or vain glory, but with humility of mind regarding one another as more important than yourselves,

1 Timothy 2:4

who desires all men to be saved and to come to the full knowledge of the truth.

1 Timothy 6:4

he is conceited, understanding nothing but having a morbid interest in controversial questions and disputes about words, out of which arise envy, strife, slander, evil suspicions,

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, spending our life in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.

James 1:18

In the exercise of His will He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we would be a kind of first fruits among His creatures.

James 3:16

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

James 5:19

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