¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant and lie about the truth.

¹⁶ For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.^(A)

⁴ Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant^(A)

³ Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.^(A)

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

³ for you are still fleshly. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling^[a] among you, are you not fleshly and behaving according to human inclinations?^(A)

¹³ let us walk decently as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in illicit sex and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.^(A)

The Living Stone and a Chosen People

2 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.^{(A) 2} Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation^(B)—

¹⁵ Some proclaim Christ from envy and rivalry but others from goodwill.

¹⁹ My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth^[a] and is brought back by another,