...»5. . . Ca) If 'ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. (ID) Whosoever is angry with his brether without a cause, shall be in danger of the judgment. (*) Blessed...

...let them avoid envy, ill-will, and competition, as destructive of virtue and social happiness: " * For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work."—Let them behave to each other with gentleness; cultivating a meek and humble temper, seeking...

...ourselves in considering, and hear us as we further pray unto thee, saying: Our father, &c. JAMES iii. 16. Where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. JL ERHAPS no one vice, at least in its commencements, is more frequent among mankind, than envy ; and...

...but is 16 earthly, animal, devilish ; For where bitter zeal and strife 17 is, there is unquietness and every evil work. But the wisdom that is from above...peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, V. 6. A world of iniquity— Containing an immense quantity of all manner of wickedness...

...proverbially betrays a weak cause 1 " This wisdom dcscendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish; for where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work."— Ep. Gen. of St. James, c. iii. After we have read his sermon on the mount, and are then informed, that...

...and lie not against the truth; this wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, and devilish; for where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. The wisdom that is from above is first pure, and then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be entreated,...

...yehave bitter envying and strife "n your hearts, glory not ; and lie not gainst the troth. Ver. 16. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work. f Psal. cxii. 9. He hath dispersed, he li.ii ii given to the poor i his righteousness endureth for...

...16. But if ye have hitter emying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against ihe truth. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil wOck. Cf I Psaf. 112, 9. He hath di». persed, he hath given to the poor, his righteousness endureth...

...language of the apostle, who describes it as " sensual and devilish ;" be« cause, as he observes, " where envying and strife is, there is confusion, and every evil work." In opposition to this, he describes the wisdom that is derived from a superior source, as " first pure,...

...or wisdom which we are taught to expect from above, and which the text so beautifully describes as first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. With just severity therefore the Apostle...