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James 3:16

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

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  1. James 3:14

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

  2. James 3:15

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

  3. James 3:17

    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.

  4. James 3:18

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

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.