For where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is disorder and every evil practice.

Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition ¹  or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

Give me a desire for your rules, ¹  rather than for wealth gained unjustly. ² 

idolatry, sorcery, ¹  hostilities, ²  strife, ³  jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish rivalries, dissensions, ⁴  factions,

The former proclaim Christ from selfish ambition, not sincerely, because they think they can cause trouble for me in my imprisonment. ¹ 

but ¹  wrath and anger to those who live in selfish ambition ²  and do not obey the truth but follow ³  unrighteousness.

For I am afraid that somehow when I come I will not find you what I wish, and you will find me ¹  not what you wish. I am afraid that ²  somehow there may be quarreling, jealousy, intense anger, selfish ambition, ³  slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

They willfully challenged God ¹  by asking for food to satisfy their appetite.

Such ¹  wisdom does not come ²  from above but is earthly, natural, ³  demonic.

One who has isolated himself ¹  seeks his own desires; ²  he rejects ³  all sound judgment.

Do not eat the food of a stingy person, ¹  do not crave his delicacies;

But I say, live ¹  by the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh. ² 

The latter do so from love because they know that I am placed here for the defense of the gospel.

Do not let truth and mercy ¹  leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. ² 

But you are always thinking and looking for ways to increase your wealth by dishonest means. Your eyes and your heart are set on killing some innocent person and committing fraud and oppression. ¹ 

Now when ¹  Judas, who had betrayed him, saw that Jesus ²  had been condemned, he regretted what he had done and returned the thirty silver coins to the chief priests and the elders,

Do not be deceived. God will not be made a fool. ¹  For a person ²  will reap what he sows,

you ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, so you can spend it on your passions.

But David said, “No! You shouldn’t do this, my brothers. Look at what the Lord has given us! ¹  He has protected us and has delivered into our hands the raiding party that came against us.