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James 3:16
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James 3:16
16For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
16For where enuying and strife is, there is †confusion, and euery euill worke.
- Gr. tumult or vnquietnesse.
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James 3:16
Feeling uneasiness at the superior condition and happiness of another; Ill will at others, on account of some supposed superiority.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Disorder, shame, overthrow, or a mingling without proper distinction, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · Skeat 1893
Each one of all; all taken separately, without exception in the stated group.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Labor, activity, deed, operation, or a result produced; as a verb, to labor, act, make, produce, or bring about.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
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Open the full verse study3For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
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Open the full verse study33For God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in all churches of the saints.
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Open the full verse study12Not 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.
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Open the full verse study20Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
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Open the full verse study9Therefore 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.
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Open the full verse study29And 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.
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