James 3:16
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
KJV
ὅπου γὰρ ζῆλος καὶ ἐριθεία, ἐκεῖ ἀκαταστασία καὶ πᾶν φαῦλον πρᾶγμα.
Greek NT
Ubi enim zelus et contentio, ibi inconstantia et omne opus pravum.
Vulgate
For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.
ASV
For where envying and contention is: there is inconstancy and every evil work.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
10 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γάρ
gar
conjunction · 1036×
ζῆλος
zelos
noun · 16×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
πρᾶγμα
pragma
noun · 11×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
φαῦλος
phaulos
adjective · 6×
ἀκαταστασία
akatastasia
noun · 5×
ἐκεῖ
ekei
adverb · 94×
ἐριθεία
eritheia
noun · 7×
ὅπου
opou
adverb · 82×
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Cor 3:3 — For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
- 1Cor 3:3 — For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
- 1Cor 14:33 — For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
- 1John 3:12 — Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.
- 1Pet 2:1 — Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
- Gal 5:20 — Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
- Gen 13:7 — And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite dwelled then in the land.
- Gen 38:9 — And Onan knew that the seed should not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in unto his brother’s wife, that he spilled it on the ground, lest that he should give seed to his brother.
- Jas 3:14 — But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
- Jas 3:14 — But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
- Judg 12:1 — And the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and went northward, and said unto Jephthah, Wherefore passedst thou over to fight against the children of Ammon, and didst not call us to go with t
- Mark 3:25 — And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
- Matt 5:9 — Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
- Prov 29:22 — An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.
- Rom 12:18 — If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.
- Zech 11:14 — Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.