James 3:14

New English Translation

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

Cross References

Genesis 37:11

His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what Joseph said.

Genesis 38:9

But Onan knew that the child would not be considered his. So whenever he had sexual relations with his brother’s wife, he withdrew prematurely so as not to give his brother a descendant.

2 Kings 10:16

Jehu said, “Come with me and see how zealous I am for the Lord’s cause.” So he took him along in his chariot.

2 Kings 10:31

But Jehu did not carefully and wholeheartedly obey the law of the Lord God of Israel. He did not repudiate the sins which Jeroboam had encouraged Israel to commit.

Job 5:2

For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

Proverbs 14:30

A tranquil spirit revives the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

Isaiah 11:13

Ephraim’s jealousy will end, and Judah’s hostility will be eliminated. Ephraim will no longer be jealous of Judah, and Judah will no longer be hostile toward Ephraim.

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do you force me to witness injustice? Why do you put up with wrongdoing? Destruction and violence confront me; conflict is present and one must endure strife.

Matthew 27:18

(For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy.)

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogue, yet a time is coming when the one who kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Acts 13:45

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

Acts 26:9

Of course, I myself was convinced that it was necessary to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus the Nazarene.

Acts 5:17

Now the high priest rose up, and all those with him (that is, the religious party of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

Acts 7:9

The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

Romans 1:29

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

Romans 13:13

Let us live decently as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in discord and jealousy.

Romans 2:17

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relationship to God

Romans 2:8

but wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition and do not obey the truth but follow unrighteousness.

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient, love is kind, it is not envious. Love does not brag, it is not puffed up.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still influenced by the flesh. For since there is still jealousy and dissension among you, are you not influenced by the flesh and behaving like unregenerate people?

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are proud! Shouldn’t you have been deeply sorrowful instead and removed the one who did this from among you?

1 Corinthians 5:6

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

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me not what you wish. I am afraid that somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

Galatians 5:15

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

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, factions,

Galatians 5:21

envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

Galatians 5:26

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.

Galatians 6:13

For those who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about your flesh.

Philippians 1:15

Some, to be sure, are preaching Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from goodwill.

Philippians 2:3

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

1 Timothy 2:4

since he wants all people to be saved and to come to a knowledge of the truth.

1 Timothy 6:4

he is conceited and understands nothing, but has an unhealthy interest in controversies and verbal disputes. This gives rise to envy, dissension, slanders, evil suspicions,

Titus 3:3

For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

James 1:18

By his sovereign plan he gave us birth through the message of truth, that we would be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.

James 3:16

For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice.

James 5:19

My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,