James 3:14

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.”

— WEB

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

— KJV

“But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.”

— ASV

Bible Verses About Jealousy

Cross-references

Related verses via the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

James 3:16 "For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed."
1 Corinthians 13:4 "Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,"
Philippians 2:3 "doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;"
1 Corinthians 3:3 "for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in th…"
Romans 13:13 "Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and j…"
2 Corinthians 12:20 "For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t des…"
1 Peter 2:1-2 "Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,"
Philippians 1:15 "Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will."

Commentary

if ye have--as is the case (this is implied in the Greek indicative). bitter-- Eph 4:31, "bitterness." envying--rather, "emulation," or literally, "zeal": kindly, generous emulation, or zeal, is not condemned, but that which is "bitter" [BENGEL]. strife--rather, "rivalry." in your hearts--from which flow your words and deeds, as from a fountain. glory not, and lie not against the truth--To boast of your wisdom is virtually a lying against the truth (the gospel), while your lives belie your glorying. Jam 3:15; Jam 1:18, "The word of truth." Rom 2:17, Rom 2:23, speaks similarly of the same contentious Jewish Christians.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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