James 3:16

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?
  • Jas 3:14 : 14 But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.
  • 1 John 3:12 : 12 Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.
  • Gal 5:20 : 20 Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,
  • 1 Cor 14:33 : 33 For God is not a God whose ways are without order, but a God of peace; as in all the churches of the saints.
  • Gen 11:9 : 9 So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.
  • Acts 19:29 : 29 And the town was full of noise and trouble, and they all came running into the theatre, having taken by force Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia who were journeying in company with Paul.

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  • Jas 3:13-15
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    13Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.

    14But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

    15This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.

  • Jas 3:17-18
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    17But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.

    18And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.

  • 1 Cor 3:3
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    3Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?

  • Jas 4:4-5
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    4O you who are false to God, do you not see that the friends of this world are not God's friends? Every man desiring to be a friend of this world makes himself a hater of God.

    5Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?

  • Phil 1:15-16
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    15Though some are preaching Christ out of envy and competition, others do it out of a good heart:

    16These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:

  • 1 Tim 6:4
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    4He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

  • Prov 27:4
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    4Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?

  • Jas 4:1-2
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    1What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?

    2You are burning with desire, and have not your desire, so you put men to death; you are full of envy, and you are not able to get your desire, so you are fighting and making war; you have not your desire, because you do not make request for it.

  • Gal 5:20
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    20Worship of images, use of strange powers, hates, fighting, desire for what another has, angry feelings, attempts to get the better of others, divisions, false teachings,

  • Prov 16:28
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    28A man of twisted purposes is a cause of fighting everywhere: and he who says evil secretly makes trouble between friends.

  • 2 Cor 12:20
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    20For I have a fear that, when I come, you may not be answering to my desire, and that I may not be answering to yours; that there may be fighting, hate, angry feeling, divisions, evil talk about others, secrets, thoughts of pride, outbursts against authority;

  • Prov 14:30
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    30A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.

  • Prov 17:14
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    14The start of fighting is like the letting out of water: so give up before it comes to blows.

  • Prov 13:10
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    10The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.

  • Gal 5:26
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    26Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.

  • Job 5:2
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    2For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

  • Jas 1:19-20
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    19You have knowledge of this, dear brothers. But let every man be quick in hearing, slow in words, slow to get angry;

    20For the righteousness of God does not come about by the wrath of man.

  • Prov 6:14
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    14His mind is ever designing evil: he lets loose violent acts.

  • 1 John 2:16
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    16Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

  • Jas 4:16
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    16But now you go on glorying in your pride: and all such glorying is evil.

  • Prov 15:18
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    18An angry man makes men come to blows, but he who is slow to get angry puts an end to fighting.

  • Prov 24:1
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    1Have no envy for evil men, or any desire to be with them:

  • Rom 1:29
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    29Being full of all wrongdoing, evil, desire for the goods of others, hate, envy, putting to death, fighting, deceit, cruel ways, evil talk, and false statements about others;

  • Titus 3:3
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    3For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

  • Jas 1:15
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    15Then when its time comes, desire gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is of full growth, gives birth to death.

  • Prov 6:19
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    19A false witness, breathing out untrue words, and one who lets loose violent acts among brothers.

  • 1 Cor 14:33
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    33For God is not a God whose ways are without order, but a God of peace; as in all the churches of the saints.

  • 1 John 3:12
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    12Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.

  • Prov 29:22
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    22An angry man is the cause of fighting, and a man given to wrath does much wrong.

  • Jas 1:8
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    8For there is a division in his mind, and he is uncertain in all his ways.

  • 2 Thess 3:11
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    11For it has come to our ears that there are some among you whose behaviour is uncontrolled, who do no work at all, but are over-interested in the business of others.

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    10Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.

  • 1 Pet 2:1
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    1So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

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    3Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.

  • Rom 3:16
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    16Destruction and trouble are in their ways;

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    19The lover of fighting is a lover of sin: he who makes high his doorway is looking for destruction.

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    19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:

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    1He who keeps himself separate for his private purpose goes against all good sense.

  • Mark 7:21-22
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    21Because from inside, from the heart of men, come evil thoughts and unclean pleasures,

    22The taking of goods and of life, broken faith between husband and wife, the desire of wealth, wrongdoing, deceit, sins of the flesh, an evil eye, angry words, pride, foolish acts:

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    11Evil is there; cruel rule and deceit are ever in the streets.

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    5But if any man among you is without wisdom, let him make his request to God, who gives freely to all without an unkind word, and it will be given to him.

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    34For bitter is the wrath of an angry husband; in the day of punishment he will have no mercy.