James 3:14

If your heart harbors bitter envy and selfish ambition, do not boast or deny the truth. Such attitudes contradict any claim to wisdom.

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• Jas 3:16For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.
• 1 Cor 13:4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
• Phil 2:3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.
• 1 Cor 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?
• Rom 13:13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
• 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
• 1 Pet 2:1–2Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
• Phil 1:15It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill.
• Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• 1 Tim 6:4he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and semantics, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions,
• Jas 5:19My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,
• Rom 2:23–29You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
• Prov 14:30A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
• Acts 5:17Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out
• 2 Kgs 10:31Yet Jehu was not careful to follow the instruction of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
• Prov 27:4Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?
• Rom 2:8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
• 1 Cor 5:2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
• Rom 2:17Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
• Gen 30:1–2When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
• 2 Kgs 10:16saying, “Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD!” So he had him ride in his chariot.
• John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
• Gal 6:13For the circumcised do not even keep the law themselves, yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
• Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.
• 1 Cor 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
• Gen 37:11And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.
• Hab 1:3Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.
• Acts 26:9So then, I too was convinced that I ought to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
• 1 Cor 4:7–8For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
• Matt 27:18For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.
• Isa 11:13Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, nor will Judah harass Ephraim.
• Jas 4:1–5What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
• Job 5:2For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
• Gal 5:15But if you keep on biting and devouring one another, watch out, or you will be consumed by one another.
• Rom 1:29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
• Gal 5:21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Gal 5:26Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.
• Acts 7:9Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

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