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For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
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Commentators explain that the 'confusion' resulting from jealousy is not just a feeling but a state of active chaos. Scholars like Calvin and the author of the Expositor's Bible Commentary note the Greek word implies tumult, anarchy, and political-like turmoil, which destroys stability and makes any cooperative effort for good impossible within a church.
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18th Century
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For where envying and strife is, there is confusion. The marginal note reads: tumult or unquietness. Everything is unset…
Confusion (ακαταστασια). Late word (from ακαταστατος), 1:8; 3:8), a state of disorder (1 Corinthians 14:33).
19th Century
Bishop
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion.—Where emulation, zeal, and rivalry exist, there also are sedition, a…
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The conjunction “for” indicates that bitter zeal and selfish ambition always result in “disorder and every evil practice.” “Disorder” (GK 189) is a…
16th Century
For where envying is. It is an argument from what is contrary; for envying, by which hypocrites are influenced, produces effects contrary …
17th Century
Pastor
Ver. 16 For where envying and strife is Where these are cherished in the heart, and especially where they break out into …
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These verses show the difference between men's pretending to be wise, and their being really so. He who thinks well, or he who talks well, is not w…