James 3:16

New American Bible - revised edition

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

Cross References

Genesis 11:9

That is why it was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the speech of all the world. From there the Lord scattered them over all the earth. Descendants from Shem to Abraham.

Genesis 38:9

Onan, however, knew that the offspring would not be his; so whenever he had intercourse with his brother’s wife, he wasted his seed on the ground, to avoid giving 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 confusion, and the people rushed with one accord into the theater, seizing Gaius and Aristarchus, the Macedonians, Paul’s traveling companions.

Romans 2:8

but wrath and fury to those who selfishly disobey the truth and obey wickedness.

1 Corinthians 14:33

since he is not the God of disorder but of peace. As in all the churches of the holy ones,

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still of the flesh. While there is jealousy and rivalry among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving in an ordinary human way?

2 Corinthians 12:20

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

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy, outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness, dissensions, factions,

James 3:14

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

1 John 3:12

unlike Cain who belonged to the evil one and slaughtered his brother. Why did he slaughter him? Because his own works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.