Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth.
New American Standard Bible
But if you have bitter
King James Version
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Holman Bible
But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t brag and deny the truth.
International Standard Version
But if you have bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, stop boasting and slandering the truth.
American Standard Version
But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.
Amplified
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant, and [as a result] be in defiance of the truth.
An Understandable Version
But if you people have bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not be arrogant [over it] and deny the truth.
Anderson New Testament
But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Bible in Basic English
But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.
Common New Testament
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
Daniel Mace New Testament
but if envy and contention imbitter your minds, don't think your false pretences can stand against the truth:
Darby Translation
but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
Godbey New Testament
But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, do not boast, and lie against the truth.
Goodspeed New Testament
But if you cherish bitter feelings of jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus belie the truth.
John Wesley New Testament
But if ye have bitter zeal and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth.
Julia Smith Translation
And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth.
King James 2000
But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not, and lie not against the truth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.
Modern King James verseion
But if you have bitter jealousy and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, rejoice not: neither be liars against the truth.
Moffatt New Testament
But if you are cherishing bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on that ??and be false to the truth.
Montgomery New Testament
But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth.
NET Bible
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.
New Heart English Bible
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.
Noyes New Testament
But if ye have bitter rivalry and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth.
Sawyer New Testament
But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not and lie not against the truth.
The Emphasized Bible
But, if, bitter jealousy, ye have, and rivalry, in your hearts; be not boasting and showing yourselves false against the truth!
Thomas Haweis New Testament
But if ye have bitter envy and contention in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth.
Twentieth Century New Testament
But, while you harbor envy and bitterness and a spirit of rivalry in your hearts, do not boast or lie to the detriment of the Truth.
Webster
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Weymouth New Testament
But if in your hearts you have bitter feelings of envy and rivalry, do not speak boastfully and falsely, in defiance of the truth.
Williams New Testament
But if you cherish bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, stop being proud of it and stop being false to the standard of truth.
World English Bible
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.
Worrell New Testament
But, if ye have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
Worsley New Testament
but if ye have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth;
Youngs Literal Translation
and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;
Themes
Confusion » Where confusion is
Envy » The place where envy exists
Envy » Inconsistent with » The gospel
Strife » Causes of » Forbidden
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Word Count of 37 Translations in James 3:14
Prayers for James 3:14
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Context Readings
The Wisdom That Comes Down From Above
13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show from his good behavior his works in mildness of wisdom. 14 But if ye have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast, and do not lie against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not descending from above, but is earthly, world-soul, demonic.
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Cross References
James 3:16
For where envy and selfish ambition are, there is instability and every evil deed.
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear lest somehow, having come, I may find you not such as I want, and I may be found by you such as ye do not want, lest somehow there be strifes, envyings, wraths, selfish ambitions, slanderings, whisperings, puffings up, t
Acts 5:17
But after rising up, the high priest and all those with him (being the sect of the Sadducees) were filled of envy.
Romans 13:13
Let us walk decently as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in beddings and wantonness, not in strife and envy.
Philippians 1:15
Actually some also preach the Christ because of envy and strife, and some also because of good-will.
Philippians 2:3
in nothing according to selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility considering each other surpassing yourselves.
Genesis 30:1-2
And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no sons, Rachel envied her sister, and she said to Jacob, Give me sons, or else I die.
Genesis 37:11
And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
2 Kings 10:16
And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
2 Kings 10:31
But Jehu did not take heed to walk in the law of LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not depart from the sins of Jeroboam, with which he made Israel to sin.
Job 5:2
For vexation kills the foolish man, and jealousy slays the silly one.
Proverbs 14:30
A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones.
Proverbs 27:4
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Isaiah 11:13
Also the envy of Ephraim shall depart, and those who vex Judah shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
Habakkuk 1:3
Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.
Matthew 27:18
For he knew that they delivered him up because of envy.
John 16:2
They will make you excommunicated from the synagogues. But the hour comes that every man who kills you will presume to be offering service to God.
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, being envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. And God was with him,
Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled of envy, and contradicted the things spoken by Paul, contradicting and slandering.
Acts 26:9
Indeed therefore I thought it necessary for myself to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene,
Romans 1:29
having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity;
Romans 2:8
but to those of self-interest, and who indeed disobey the truth but have confidence in unrighteousness--anger and wrath,
Romans 2:17
Behold, thou are called a Jew, and rely upon the law, and boast in God,
Romans 2:23-29
Thou who boast in law, dishonor God by thy transgression of the law.
1 Corinthians 3:3
for ye are still carnal. For whereas among you is envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal and walk according to man?
1 Corinthians 4:7-8
For who makes thee different? And what have thou that thou did not receive? And also if thou received it, why do thou boast as not having received it?
1 Corinthians 5:2
And ye are puffed up and did not rather mourn, so that he who committed this deed might be taken away from the midst of you.
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your boasting is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is patient and is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not brag, and is not puffed up.
Galatians 5:15
But if ye bite and devour each other, watch out that ye be not consumed by each other.
Galatians 5:21
envyings, murders, intoxications, revelings, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, as I also did forewarn, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:26
Let us not become conceited, provoking each other, envying each other.
Galatians 6:13
For not even those who have been circumcised themselves keep law, but they want you to be circumcised, so that they may boast in thy flesh.
1 Timothy 6:4
he is puffed up, understanding nothing, but doting about disputes and word controversies, from which develop envy, strife, revilings, evil surmisings,
Titus 3:3
For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, being led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, hateful, hating each other.
James 4:1-5
From where are wars and fightings among you? Is it not from here: from your pleasures warring in your body-parts?
James 5:19
Brothers, if any man among you may be led astray from the truth, and some man converts him,
1 Peter 2:1-2
Therefore, having put off all evil and all deceit and hypocrisies and envies and all evil speaking,