Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and 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.
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.
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:
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 shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom; 14 but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.
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Cross References
James 3:16
For where emulation and strife are, there is disorder and every evil thing.
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that I be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;
Acts 5:17
And the high priest rising up, and all they that were with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with wrath,
Romans 13:13
As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and lasciviousness, not in strife and emulation.
Philippians 1:15
Some indeed also for envy and strife, but some also for good will, preach the Christ.
Philippians 2:3
let nothing be in the spirit of strife or vain glory, but, in lowliness of mind, each esteeming the other as more excellent than themselves;
Genesis 30:1-2
And when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
Genesis 37:11
And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying.
2 Kings 10:16
and said, Come with me, and see my zeal for Jehovah. So they made him ride in his chariot.
2 Kings 10:31
But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of Jehovah the God of Israel with all his heart; he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin.
Job 5:2
For vexation killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the simple.
Proverbs 14:30
A sound heart is the life of the flesh; but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Proverbs 27:4
Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Isaiah 11:13
And the envy of Ephraim shall depart, and the troublers of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim will not envy Judah, and Judah will not trouble Ephraim:
Habakkuk 1:3
Why dost thou cause me to see iniquity, and lookest thou upon grievance? For spoiling and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.
Matthew 27:18
For he knew that they had delivered him up through envy.
John 16:2
They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render service to God;
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him away into Egypt. And God was with him,
Acts 13:45
But the Jews, seeing the crowds, were filled with envy, and contradicted the things said by Paul, contradicting and speaking injuriously.
Acts 26:9
I indeed myself thought that I ought to do much against the name of Jesus the Nazaraean.
Romans 1:29
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
Romans 2:8
But to those that are contentious, and are disobedient to the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there shall be wrath and indignation,
Romans 2:17
But if thou art named a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast in God,
Romans 2:23-29
thou who boastest in law, dost thou by transgression of the law dishonour God?
1 Corinthians 3:3
for ye are yet carnal. For whereas there are among you emulation and strife, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?
1 Corinthians 4:7-8
For who makes thee to differ? and what hast thou which thou hast not received? but if also thou hast received, why boastest thou as not receiving?
1 Corinthians 5:2
And ye are puffed up, and ye have not rather mourned, in order that he that has done this deed might be taken away out of the midst of you.
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your boasting is not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
1 Corinthians 13:4
Love has long patience, is kind; love is not emulous of others; love is not insolent and rash, is not puffed up,
Galatians 5:15
but if ye bite and devour one another, see that ye are not consumed one of another.
Galatians 5:21
envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these; as to which I tell you beforehand, even as I also have said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom.
Galatians 5:26
Let us not become vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians 6:13
For neither do they that are circumcised themselves keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
1 Timothy 6:4
he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, out of which arise envy, strife, injurious words, evil suspicions,
Titus 3:3
For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
James 4:1-5
Whence come wars and whence fightings among you? Is it not thence, from your pleasures, which war in your members?
James 5:19
My brethren, if any one among you err from the truth, and one bring him back,
1 Peter 2:1-2
Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,