16For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.


In Context

13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show by a good deportment his works with meekness of wisdom.

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

15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, demoniacal.

16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

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

James 3:16 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:16For where envying and strife [is,] there [is] confusion and every evil work.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:16For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:16For where envying and contention is, there is inconstancy, and every evil work.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:16For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:16For where emulation and strife are, there is disorder and every evil thing.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:16For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:16For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:16for where zeal and rivalry are, there is insurrection and every evil matter;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:16For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.