Jam 3:14, 16, 4:1-3 | ESV | STEP | But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts , do not boast and be false to the truth .

a ver. 16; Acts 5:17; Rom. 2:8; 2 Cor. 12:20; Gal. 5:20; Phil. 1:17; 2:3; [Rom. 13:13]

c Rom. 7:23; 1 Pet. 2:11

e[1 John 5:14]

James 3:14

14 But if you have bitter ^ajealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

James 3:16

16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

James 4:1-3

Warning Against Worldliness

1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions ^{▼▼Greek pleasures; also verse 3} are ^cat war within you? ^{▼▼Greek in your members} 2 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. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask ^ewrongly, to spend it on your passions.