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James 3:14

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But if you have bitterness, jealousy, and selfish ambition in your hearts, don’t be proud and pretend you’ve got the truth.

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because wherever there’s jealousy and selfish ambition, there will also be chaos and all kinds of bad activity.

Love is patient and kind. It doesn’t want what belongs to other people. It doesn’t brag, it isn’t proud,

Don’t try to get ahead of others, and don’t think you’re better than they are. Instead, be humble and honor others more than yourselves.

You’re still following your own wrong desires. If you’re jealous and you’re arguing, aren’t those desires in charge? Aren’t you acting like ordinary human beings?

Let’s act properly, like people living in the daytime. Don’t go to wild parties and don’t get drunk. Don’t do anything immoral or indecent. Don’t get into fights or be jealous of anyone.

I’m afraid that when I come I won’t find you as I want you to be, and you won’t find me as you want me to be. I’m afraid that there will be arguing, jealousy, fits of anger, selfish ambition, insults, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

It’s true that some are preaching about Christ because they’re jealous of me. But others are preaching about Christ to help me in my work.

My brothers and sisters, if one of you wanders away from the truth and someone else brings that person back,

The high priest and his friends, who were all Sadducees, were jealous of the apostles.

At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived, and controlled by all kinds of wrong desires and pleasures. We were hostile and envious. Other people hated us, and we hated them.

then that person is proud and doesn’t understand anything. They like to argue more than they should, and they’ll always be fighting about what words mean. This results in jealousy, fighting, harmful talk, and bad suspicions.

And you’re proud of this! Shouldn’t you be grieving instead? Shouldn’t you have thrown this man out from among you?

But God will pour out his great anger on the ones who only look out for themselves, who don’t accept the truth, and who do wrong.

Even those who are circumcised don’t follow the law, but they want you to be circumcised so they can brag about getting you to do this.

Let’s not become proud or make each other angry or want what belongs to someone else.

and envy; drunkenness, wild parties, and many other things like that. I warn you now, as I did before, that people who live like this won’t inherit God’s kingdom.

But if you say or do things that harm one another, watch out! You could end up destroying one another.

Your bragging isn’t good. Don’t you know that just a little yeast makes the whole batch of dough rise?

Suppose you call yourself a Jew. You trust in the law and you brag about God.

They did things that shouldn’t be done. They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, fighting, deception, and bad motives.

“I used to think I should do everything I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

When the Jews saw the crowds, they became very jealous. They began to argue with what Paul was saying and insult him.

You’re going to be thrown out of the synagogue. In fact, the time is coming when anyone who kills you will think they’re serving God.

Pilate knew that the leaders had handed Jesus over because they were jealous.

“Jacob’s sons were jealous of their brother Joseph, so they sold him as a slave, and he was taken to Egypt. But God was with Joseph,

idol-worship and witchcraft; hatred, fighting, jealousy, fits of anger, selfish ambition, arguments, cliques,

who wants all people to be saved and come to know the truth.

God chose to give us new birth through the message of truth because he wanted us to be the first harvest of his new creation.




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