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 envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
• 1 Cor 13:4Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
• Phil 2:3Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
• 1 Cor 3:3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
• Rom 13:13Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
• 2 Cor 12:20For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
• 1 Pet 2:1–2Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
• Phil 1:15Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• 1 Tim 6:4He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
• Jas 5:19Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
• Rom 2:23–29Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
• Prov 14:30A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
• Acts 5:17Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him, (which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
• 2 Kgs 10:31But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
• Prov 27:4Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
• Rom 2:8But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
• 1 Cor 5:2And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
• Rom 2:17Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
• Gen 30:1–2And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
• 2 Kgs 10:16And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
• John 16:2They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
• Gal 6:13For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
• Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
• 1 Cor 5:6Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
• Gen 37:11And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
• Hab 1:3Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
• Acts 26:9I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
• 1 Cor 4:7–8For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
• Matt 27:18For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
• Isa 11:13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
• Jas 4:1–5From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?
• Job 5:2For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
• Gal 5:15But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
• Rom 1:29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
• Gal 5:21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Gal 5:26Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
• Acts 7:9And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

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