{Be} kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; {with...: or, in the love of the brethren}

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love;

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all {of you} be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? {to envy: or, enviously?}

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified {rather} than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, {proud: or, a fool} {doting: or, sick}

Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised {is} wisdom.

But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.

And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and {that} I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest {there be} debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas {there is} among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? {divisions: or, factions} {as men: Gr. according to man?}

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. {honestly: or, decently}

For I say, through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think {of himself} more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith. {soberly: Gr. to sobriety}

{Be} kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honour preferring one another; {with...: or, in the love of the brethren}

Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all {of you} be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.

Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

Do all things without murmurings and disputings:

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all {men}, apt to teach, patient, {patient: or, forbearing}

How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that {cometh} from God only?

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

Honour all {men}. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king. {Honour all: or, Esteem all}

And he put forth a parable to those which were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying unto them,

He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh his glory that sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.

Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a colt the foal of an ass.

But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments, {phylacteries: pieces of parchment containing sentences of the law}

Then there arose a reasoning among them, which of them should be greatest.

And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard {it}.

Then she said, Let me find favour in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that thou hast spoken friendly unto thine handmaid, though I be not like unto one of thine handmaidens. {Let me...: or, I find} {friendly: Heb. to the heart}

Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;

And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD'S people were prophets, {and} that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!

{It is} not good to eat much honey: so {for men} to search their own glory {is not} glory.

But the other of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel.

And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. {honestly: or, decently}

I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

And whence {is} this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

And though I bestow all my goods to feed {the poor}, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

And when the ten heard {it}, they began to be much displeased with James and John.

Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;

But they held their peace: for by the way they had disputed among themselves, who {should be} the greatest.

Peter answered and said unto him, Though all {men} shall be offended because of thee, {yet} will I never be offended. {offended: or, though the faith of other men should be shaken and fail, yet mine will be firm and constant}

And when the ten heard {it}, they were moved with indignation against the two brethren.

He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, {proud: or, a fool} {doting: or, sick}

Behold, thou {art} fair, my love; behold, thou {art} fair; thou {hast} doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair {is} as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead. {that...: or, that eat of, etc}

And the men of Israel answered the men of Judah, and said, We have ten parts in the king, and we have also more {right} in David than ye: why then did ye despise us, that our advice should not be first had in bringing back our king? And the words of the men of Judah were fiercer than the words of the men of Israel. {despise...: Heb. set us at light}

God hath delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb: and what was I able to do in comparison of you? Then their anger was abated toward him, when he had said that. {anger: Heb. spirit}

And he hath brought thee near {to him}, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?

And there was also a strife among them, which of them should be accounted the greatest.

And the next day he shewed himself unto them as they strove, and would have set them at one again, saying, Sirs, ye are brethren; why do ye wrong one to another?

Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

And kept back {part} of the price, his wife also being privy {to it}, and brought a certain part, and laid {it} at the apostles' feet.