"For where envying and strife {is}, there {is} confusion and every evil work. {confusion: Gr. tumult, or, unquietness}" — James 3:16

James 3:16 · KJV

“For where envying and strife {is}, there {is} confusion and every evil work. {confusion: Gr. tumult, or, unquietness}”

— James 3:16

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but {is} earthly, sensual, devilish. {sensual: or, natural}

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, {and} easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. {partiality: or, wrangling}

James 3 — Context

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but {is} earthly, sensual, devilish. {sensual: or, natural}

For where envying and strife {is}, there {is} confusion and every evil work. {confusion: Gr. tumult, or, unquietness}

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

Cross References

James 3:14

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

1 Corinthians 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? {divisions: or, factions} {as men: Gr. according to man?}

1 Corinthians 14:33

For God is not {the author} of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints. {confusion: Gr. tumult, or, unquietness}

1 John 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.

Galatians 5:20

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Genesis 11:9

Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth. {Babel: that is, Confusion}

Acts 19:29

And the whole city was filled with confusion: and having caught Gaius and Aristarchus, men of Macedonia, Paul's companions in travel, they rushed with one accord into the theatre.