Catholic Public Domain Version
"For wherever envy and contention is, there too is inconstancy and every depraved work. "
— James 3:16, Catholic Public Domain Version
“For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.”
“For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. ”
“For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.”
“For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice.”
“For where envying and contention is: there is inconstancy and every evil work.”
“For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.”
“For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.”
Who is wise and well-taught among you? Let him show, by means of good conversation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.
But if you hold a bitter zeal, and if there is contention in your hearts, then do not boast and do not be liars against the truth.
For this is not wisdom, descending from above, but rather it is earthly, beastly, and diabolical.
For wherever envy and contention is, there too is inconstancy and every depraved work.
But within the wisdom that is from above, certainly, chastity is first, and next peacefulness, meekness, openness, consenting to what is good, a plenitude of mercy and good fruits, not judging, without falseness.
And so the fruit of justice is sown in peace by those who make peace.