James 3:14

In love of the brothers be tenderly affectionate to one another; in honor preferring one another;

with all lowliness and humility, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.

Put on therefore, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, humility, and perseverance;

Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

Don’t be among ones drinking too much wine, or those who gorge themselves on meat:

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all.

Beloved, if God loved us in this way, we also ought to love one another.

Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.

Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and killed your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report: if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, think about these things.

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

although I used to be a blasphemer, a persecutor, and insolent. However, I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

not a new convert, lest being puffed up he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.

having good behavior among the nations, so in that of which they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they see, glorify God in the day of visitation.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.

He who covers an offense promotes love; but he who repeats a matter separates best friends.

for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.

Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Philip found Nathanael, and said to him, “We have found him, of whom Moses in the law, and the prophets, wrote: Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.”

“Don’t think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you, even Moses, on whom you have set your hope.

Where then is the boasting? It is excluded. By what kind of law? Of works? No, but by a law of faith.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

Do all things without complaining and arguing,

“I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

So my heavenly Father will also do to you, if you don’t each forgive your brother from your hearts for his misdeeds.”

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

Onan knew that the offspring wouldn’t be his; and when he went in to his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.

He said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for Yahweh.” So they made him ride in his chariot.

But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Yahweh, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He didn’t depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife, but every fool will be quarreling.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.

Then I cut apart my other staff, even Union, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

Indeed you bear the name of a Jew, rest on the law, glory in God,

You are arrogant, and didn’t mourn instead, that he who had done this deed might be removed from among you.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.

Husbands, love your wives, and don’t be bitter against them.

he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Brothers, if any among you wanders from the truth and someone turns him back,

Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,