“For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.”
For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice — the causal nexus shows that envy and selfish ambition necessarily produce akatastasia (disorder/chaos) and panta phyla ponēria (every kind of wickedness). The word 'disorder' echoes the 'restless evil' of the tongue from 3:8, suggesting that uncontrolled passion generates chaos throughout a community. The 'every evil practice' suggests that these vices open a doorway to comprehensive moral breakdown.
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