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 are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
• 1 Cor 13:4Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
• Phil 2:3doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
• 1 Cor 3:3for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?
• Rom 13:13Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.
• 2 Cor 12:20For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;
• 1 Pet 2:1–2Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
• Phil 1:15Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
• Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• 1 Tim 6:4he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
• Jas 5:19Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,
• Rom 2:23–29You who glory in the law, through your disobedience of the law do you dishonor God?
• Prov 14:30The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
• Acts 5:17But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,
• 2 Kgs 10:31But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.
• Prov 27:4Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
• Rom 2:8but to those who are self-seeking, and don’t obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, will be wrath and indignation,
• 1 Cor 5:2You are puffed up, and didn’t rather mourn, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.
• Rom 2:17Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, and rest on the law, and glory in God,
• Gen 30:1–2When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”
• 2 Kgs 10:16He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh.” So they made him ride in his chariot.
• John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. Yes, the time comes that whoever kills you will think that he offers service to God.
• Gal 6:13For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
• Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
• 1 Cor 5:6Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?
• Gen 37:11His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
• Hab 1:3Why do you show me iniquity, and look at perversity? For destruction and violence are before me. There is strife, and contention rises up.
• Acts 26:9“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
• 1 Cor 4:7–8For who makes you different? And what do you have that you didn’t receive? But if you did receive it, why do you boast as if you had not received it?
• Matt 27:18For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.
• Isa 11:13The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.
• Jas 4:1–5Where do wars and fightings among you come from? Don’t they come from your pleasures that war in your members?
• Job 5:2For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
• Gal 5:15But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.
• Rom 1:29being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
• Gal 5:21envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
• Gal 5:26Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
• Acts 7:9“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

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