James 3:14
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14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition(A) in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.(B)
James 3:16
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16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition,(A) there you find disorder and every evil practice.
1 Corinthians 13:4
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Philippians 2:3
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3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.(A) Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,(B)
1 Corinthians 3:3
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3 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?
Romans 13:13
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13 Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness,(A) not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.(B)
2 Corinthians 12:20
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1 Peter 2:1-2
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2 Therefore, rid yourselves(A) of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander(B) of every kind. 2 Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk,(C) so that by it you may grow up(D) in your salvation,
Philippians 1:15
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15 It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill.
James 5:19
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19 My brothers and sisters, if one of you should wander from the truth(A) and someone should bring that person back,(B)
Acts 5:17
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The Apostles Persecuted
17 Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party(A) of the Sadducees,(B) were filled with jealousy.
Titus 3:3
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3 At one time(A) we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
1 Timothy 6:4
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4 they are conceited(A) and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words(B) that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions
1 Corinthians 5:2
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2 And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have gone into mourning(A) and have put out of your fellowship(B) the man who has been doing this?
Romans 2:23-29
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23 You who boast in the law,(A) do you dishonor God by breaking the law? 24 As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.”[a](B)
25 Circumcision has value if you observe the law,(C) but if you break the law, you have become as though you had not been circumcised.(D) 26 So then, if those who are not circumcised keep the law’s requirements,(E) will they not be regarded as though they were circumcised?(F) 27 The one who is not circumcised physically and yet obeys the law will condemn you(G) who, even though you have the[b] written code and circumcision, are a lawbreaker.
28 A person is not a Jew who is one only outwardly,(H) nor is circumcision merely outward and physical.(I) 29 No, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly; and circumcision is circumcision of the heart,(J) by the Spirit,(K) not by the written code.(L) Such a person’s praise is not from other people, but from God.(M)
Footnotes
- Romans 2:24 Isaiah 52:5 (see Septuagint); Ezek. 36:20,22
- Romans 2:27 Or who, by means of a
Romans 2:8
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8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow evil,(A) there will be wrath and anger.(B)
Proverbs 27:4
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4 Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming,
but who can stand before jealousy?(A)
Proverbs 14:30
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30 A heart at peace gives life to the body,
but envy rots the bones.(A)
2 Kings 10:31
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31 Yet Jehu was not careful(A) to keep the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins(B) of Jeroboam, which he had caused Israel to commit.
James 4:1-5
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Submit Yourselves to God
4 What causes fights and quarrels(A) among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle(B) within you? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill.(C) You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive,(D) because you ask with wrong motives,(E) that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
4 You adulterous(F) people,[a] don’t you know that friendship with the world(G) means enmity against God?(H) Therefore, anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(I) 5 Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us[b]?(J)
Galatians 6:13
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13 Not even those who are circumcised keep the law,(A) yet they want you to be circumcised that they may boast about your circumcision in the flesh.(B)
Galatians 5:26
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26 Let us not become conceited,(A) provoking and envying each other.
Galatians 5:21
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21 and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like.(A) I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.(B)
Galatians 5:15
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15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
1 Corinthians 5:6
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6 Your boasting is not good.(A) Don’t you know that a little yeast(B) leavens the whole batch of dough?(C)
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