15 But if you (A)bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.

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15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.

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for you are still of the flesh. For while there is (A)jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?

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You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling(A) among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans?

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14 But if you have bitter (A)jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. 15 This is not (B)the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, (C)demonic. 16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. 17 But (D)the wisdom from above is first pure, then (E)peaceable, gentle, open to reason, (F)full of mercy and good fruits, (G)impartial and (H)sincere. 18 And (I)a harvest of righteousness (J)is sown in peace by those who make peace.

Warning Against Worldliness

What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions[a] are (K)at war within you?[b] You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask (L)wrongly, to spend it on your passions.

Footnotes

  1. James 4:1 Greek pleasures; also verse 3
  2. James 4:1 Greek in your members

14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition(A) in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.(B) 15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven(C) but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.(D) 16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition,(E) there you find disorder and every evil practice.

17 But the wisdom that comes from heaven(F) is first of all pure; then peace-loving,(G) considerate, submissive, full of mercy(H) and good fruit, impartial and sincere.(I) 18 Peacemakers(J) who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.(K)

Submit Yourselves to God

What causes fights and quarrels(L) among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle(M) within you? You desire but do not have, so you kill.(N) You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. When you ask, you do not receive,(O) because you ask with wrong motives,(P) that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.

26 (A)Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

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26 Let us not become conceited,(A) provoking and envying each other.

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20 For you bear it if someone (A)makes slaves of you, or (B)devours you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or (C)strikes you in the face.

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20 In fact, you even put up with(A) anyone who enslaves you(B) or exploits you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or slaps you in the face.

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20 For I fear that perhaps (A)when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

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20 For I am afraid that when I come(A) I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be.(B) I fear that there may be discord,(C) jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition,(D) slander,(E) gossip,(F) arrogance(G) and disorder.(H)

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but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers? To have lawsuits at all with one another is already a defeat for you. (A)Why not rather suffer wrong? Why not rather be defrauded? But you yourselves wrong and defraud—even (B)your own brothers![a]

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:8 Or brothers and sisters

But instead, one brother(A) takes another to court—and this in front of unbelievers!(B)

The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means you have been completely defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?(C) Instead, you yourselves cheat and do wrong, and you do this to your brothers and sisters.(D)

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13 (A)The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart,
    and those who harass Judah shall be cut off;
Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah,
    and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.

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13 Ephraim’s jealousy will vanish,
    and Judah’s enemies[a] will be destroyed;
Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah,
    nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.(A)

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  1. Isaiah 11:13 Or hostility

20 (A)They slice meat on the right, but are still hungry,
    and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied;
(B)each devours the flesh of his own arm,
21 Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim devours Manasseh;
    together they are (C)against Judah.
(D)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.

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20 On the right they will devour,
    but still be hungry;(A)
on the left they will eat,(B)
    but not be satisfied.
Each will feed on the flesh of their own offspring[a]:
21     Manasseh will feed on Ephraim, and Ephraim on Manasseh;(C)
    together they will turn against Judah.(D)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
    his hand is still upraised.(E)

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  1. Isaiah 9:20 Or arm

Look out for (A)the dogs, look out for (B)the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.

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Watch out for those dogs,(A) those evildoers, those mutilators of the flesh.

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Righteousness shall be the belt of his waist,
    and (A)faithfulness the belt of his loins.

(B)The wolf shall dwell with the lamb,
    and the leopard shall lie down with the young goat,
and the calf and the lion and the fattened calf together;
    and a little child shall lead them.
The cow and the bear shall graze;
    their young shall lie down together;
    and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
The nursing child shall play over the hole of the cobra,
    and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den.
(C)They shall not hurt or destroy
    in all (D)my holy mountain;
(E)for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

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Righteousness will be his belt(A)
    and faithfulness(B) the sash around his waist.(C)

The wolf will live with the lamb,(D)
    the leopard will lie down with the goat,
the calf and the lion and the yearling[a] together;
    and a little child will lead them.
The cow will feed with the bear,
    their young will lie down together,
    and the lion will eat straw like the ox.(E)
The infant(F) will play near the cobra’s den,
    and the young child will put its hand into the viper’s(G) nest.
They will neither harm nor destroy(H)
    on all my holy mountain,(I)
for the earth(J) will be filled with the knowledge(K) of the Lord
    as the waters cover the sea.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 11:6 Hebrew; Septuagint lion will feed

26 Then Abner called to Joab, “Shall the sword devour forever? Do you not know that the end will be bitter? How long will it be before you tell your people to turn from the pursuit of their brothers?” 27 And Joab said, “As God lives, if (A)you had not spoken, surely the men would not have given up the pursuit of their brothers until the morning.”

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26 Abner called out to Joab, “Must the sword devour(A) forever? Don’t you realize that this will end in bitterness? How long before you order your men to stop pursuing their fellow Israelites?”

27 Joab answered, “As surely as God lives, if you had not spoken, the men would have continued pursuing them until morning.”

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