Parallel Verses
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Who is a wise man and intelligent among you, let him shew in a becoming conduct his works with the meekness of wisdom.
New American Standard Bible
Who among you is wise and understanding?
King James Version
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
Holman Bible
Who is wise and has understanding among you? He should show his works by good conduct with wisdom’s gentleness.
International Standard Version
Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his noble conduct that his actions are done humbly and wisely.
A Conservative Version
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in mildness of wisdom.
American Standard Version
Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.
Amplified
Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him by his good conduct show his [good] deeds with the gentleness and humility of true wisdom.
An Understandable Version
Who [then] is the wise and understanding person among you? He should show by his good conduct [that he has] deeds of gentleness [stemming] from wisdom.
Anderson New Testament
Who is wise and discreet among you? Let him show, by a good behavior, his works, with the meekness of wisdom.
Bible in Basic English
Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.
Common New Testament
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good life let him show his deeds in the humility of wisdom.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Whoever is a skilful moralist, let him show by his virtuous conduct, that he practises the humble precepts of wisdom.
Darby Translation
Who is wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;
Godbey New Testament
Who is wise and instructed among you? Let him show forth out of beautiful conduct his works in meekness of wisdom.
Goodspeed New Testament
What wise, intelligent man is there among you? Let him show by his good life that what he does is done in the humility of wisdom.
John Wesley New Testament
Who is a wise and knowing man among you? Let him shew by a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
Julia Smith Translation
Who wise and knowing among you? let him show out of a good mode of life his works in meekness of wisdom.
King James 2000
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good life his works with meekness of wisdom.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Who [is] wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good behavior his works, with the humility of wisdom.
Modern King James verseion
Who is wise and knowing among you? Let him show his works by his good conduct with meekness of wisdom.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
If any man be wise and endued with learning among you, let him show the works of his good conversation in meekness that is coupled with wisdom.
Moffatt New Testament
Who among you is wise and learned? Let him show by his good conduct, with the modesty of wisdom, what his deeds are.
Montgomery New Testament
Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show his deeds by his good life, in the meekness of wisdom.
NET Bible
Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct he should show his works done in the gentleness that wisdom brings.
New Heart English Bible
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
Noyes New Testament
Who is wise and endued with knowledge among you P let him show out of a good course of conduct his works in meekness of wisdom.
Sawyer New Testament
What wise and intelligent man is there among you? Let him show his works by good conduct, in the meekness of wisdom.
The Emphasized Bible
Who is wise and well-instructed-among you? Let him show, out of his comely behaviour, his works, in meekness of wisdom.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Who among you claims to be wise and intelligent? Let him show that his actions are the outcome of a good life lived in the humility of true wisdom.
Webster
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show by a good deportment his works with meekness of wisdom.
Weymouth New Testament
Which of you is a wise and well-instructed man? Let him prove it by a right life with conduct guided by a wisely teachable spirit.
Williams New Testament
Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show by his noble living that his good deeds are done in humility, which wisdom prompts.
World English Bible
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
Worrell New Testament
Who is wise and intelligent among you? Let him show, by his good conduct, his works in meekness of wisdom.
Worsley New Testament
Is there any wise and understanding man among you? let him shew his works by a good conversation in the meekness of wisdom:
Youngs Literal Translation
Who is wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,
Themes
Christian conduct » Advice concerning
Confusion » Where confusion is
Envy » The place where envy exists
Life » Christ » Consistent life
Meekness » General references to » Essential in hearing
Meekness » Saints should » Exhibit, in conduct, &c
Strife » The place where strife exists
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in James 3:13
Images James 3:13
Prayers for James 3:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Wisdom That Comes Down From Above
12 Can a fig-tree, my brethren, produce olives; or a vine figs? so also can no fountain send forth salt water and sweet. 13 Who is a wise man and intelligent among you, let him shew in a becoming conduct his works with the meekness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envy and contention in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth.
Cross References
James 2:18
Perhaps a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith by thy works, and I will shew thee by my works my faith.
James 1:21
Wherefore laying aside all vicious pollution, and the abundance of iniquity, receive with meekness the ingrafted word, which hath power to save your souls.
1 Peter 2:12
having your conduct ornamental among the Gentiles: that, whereas they malign you as wicked doers, they may, being eye-witnesses of your good works, glorify God in the day when he visits them.
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Matthew 7:24
Every man therefore who is hearing from me these words, and puts them in practice, I will compare him to the intelligent man, who erected his house upon a rock:
Matthew 11:29
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest to your souls.
Matthew 21:5
"Tell the daughter of Sion, Lo! thy King cometh to thee, meek, and sitting on an ass, even on a foal the ass's colt."
1 Corinthians 6:5
I speak to you to shame you. Is it so, that there is not among you a wise man? Not so much as one who is able to judge between one brother and another?
2 Corinthians 8:24
Therefore shew unto them, and in the presence of the churches, a proof of your love, and of our [just] boasting in you.
2 Corinthians 10:1
NOW I Paul myself exhort you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who, when present, am indeed lowly among you, but being absent, am bold towards you.
Galatians 5:23
meekness, temperance; against such there is no law.
Galatians 6:1
BRETHREN, if a man also be surprised into any act of offence, ye that are spiritual, replace such a one in the spirit of meekness; keeping an attentive eye on thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
Galatians 6:4
But let every man bring his own work to the test, and then shall he have glorying in himself alone, and not [by comparison] with another.
Ephesians 4:2
with all humility and meekness, with long suffering, forbearing one another in love;
Philippians 1:27
Only conduct yourselves worthily as becometh the gospel of Christ; that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul wrestling together in the faith of the gospel;
Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering;
1 Timothy 4:12
Let no man despise thy youth; but be a pattern of the faithful, in discourse; in conduct, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
1 Timothy 6:11
But thou, O man of God, flee from these things; but pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.
2 Timothy 2:25
with meekness correcting those who are opposers, if at last God may give unto them repentance so as to submit to the conviction of the truth;
Titus 3:2
to slander no man, to be inoffensive, gentle, shewing all meekness to all men.
Hebrews 13:5
Let the tenor of your life be divested of the love of money; content with your present possessions: for he hath said, "I will in no wise leave thee, neither will I in any case forsake thee."
James 3:1
MY brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive a severer judgment.
James 3:17
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, meek, easily persuadable, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial, and void of dissimulation.
1 Peter 2:9
But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people acquired by purchase; that ye should publish abroad the excellencies of him, who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
1 Peter 3:1-2
LIKEWISE, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, even if some obey not the word, by their wives' conduct without the word, they may be won over;
1 Peter 3:4
but let it be the hidden man of the heart, with that incorruptible ornament of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God highly valuable.
1 Peter 3:15-16
but sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be always ready with your reply to every man who demands a reason respecting the hope which is in you with meekness and fear: