James 3:16

In 9 translations

BSB

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

KJV

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

WEB

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

ASV

For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

LSV

for where zeal and rivalry [are], there is insurrection and every evil matter;

YLT

for where zeal and rivalry [are], there is insurrection and every evil matter;

DBY

For where emulation and strife [are], there [is] disorder and every evil thing.

DRC

For where envying and contention is, there is inconstancy, and every evil work.

GNV

For where enuying and strife is, there is sedition, and all maner of euill workes.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

ὅπου γὰρ ζῆλος καὶ ἐριθεία, ἐκεῖ ἀκαταστασία καὶ πᾶν φαῦλον πρᾶγμα.

RP2018

Ὅπου γὰρ ζῆλος καὶ ἐριθεία, ἐκεῖ ἀκαταστασία καὶ πᾶν φαῦλον πρᾶγμα.

TR-Boyd

Ὅπου γὰρ ζῆλος καὶ ἐριθεία, ἐκεῖ ἀκαταστασία καὶ πᾶν φαῦλον πρᾶγμα.

SCR1894

οπου γαρ ζηλος και εριθεια εκει ακαταστασια και παν φαυλον πραγμα

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• James 3:14But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
• 1 Corinthians 3:3for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
• 1 Corinthians 14:33For God is not a God of disorder, but of peace—as in all the churches of the saints.
• 1 John 3:12Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.
• Galatians 5:20idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,
• Genesis 11:9That is why it is called Babel, for there the LORD confused the language of the whole world, and from that place the LORD scattered them over the face of all the earth.
• Acts 19:29Soon the whole city was in disarray. They rushed together into the theatre, dragging with them Gaius and Aristarchus, Paul’s traveling companions from Macedonia.

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