James 3:14

Tree of Life Version

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

Cross References

Genesis 37:11

So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the speech in mind.

Genesis 38:9

But Onan knew that the seed would not be his. So every time he went to his brother’s wife he would destroy it on the ground so as not to provide a seed for his brother.

2 Kings 10:16

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

2 Kings 10:31

Yet Jehu was not careful to walk in the Torah of Adonai, God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he caused Israel to commit.

Job 5:2

For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

Proverbs 14:30

A tranquil heart is life to 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 envy will end, those hostile to Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, and Judah will not harass Ephraim.

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do You show me wickedness, and why must I behold mischief? Yes, devastation and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention arises.

Matthew 27:18

For he knew that they had handed Him over out of envy.

John 16:2

They will throw you out of the synagogues. Yes, an hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Acts 13:45

When the Jewish leaders saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and tried to contradict what Paul was saying by reviling him.

Acts 26:9

“In fact, I myself thought it was necessary to do many things in opposition to the name of Yeshua ha-Natzrati.

Acts 5:17

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

Acts 7:9

The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him.

Romans 1:29

They became filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil. They are 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 envy.

Romans 2:17

But if you call yourself Jewish and rely upon the Torah and boast in God

Romans 2:8

But to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness—wrath and fury.

1 Corinthians 13:4

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

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and strife among you, aren’t you worldly and walking in a human way?

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are puffed up! Shouldn’t you have mourned instead, so that the one who did this deed might be removed from among you?

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is no good. Don’t you know that a little hametz leavens the whole batch of dough?

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid that perhaps when I come, I may find you not as I wish, or I may be found by you not as you wish—that there may be strife, envy, outbursts of anger, self-seeking disputes, lashon ha-ra , gossip, arrogance, unruly commotions.

Galatians 5:15

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not destroyed by one another.

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, witchcraft, hostility, strife, jealousy, rage, selfish ambition, dissension, factions,

Galatians 5:21

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, just as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit God’s kingdom.

Galatians 5:26

Let us not become conceited—provoking one another, envying one another.

Galatians 6:13

For not even the circumcised keep Torah themselves. Yet they want to have you circumcised so that they may boast about your flesh.

Philippians 1:15

Some are proclaiming the Messiah out of envy and strife, but others out of good will.

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing out of selfishness or conceit, but with humility consider others as more important than yourselves,

1 Timothy 2:4

He desires all men to be saved and come into the knowledge of the truth.

1 Timothy 6:4

he is prideful, understanding nothing. Instead he is obsessed with arguments and disputes about words—out of which come envy, strife, slander, evil suspicions,

Titus 3:3

For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to various desires and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

James 1:18

By His will, He brought us forth by the word of truth, so that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all He created.

James 3:16

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

James 5:19

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