Parallel Verses
Godbey New Testament
But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, 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:
Darby Translation
but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, 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
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Wisdom That Comes Down From Above
13 Who is wise and instructed among you? Let him show forth out of beautiful conduct his works in meekness of wisdom. 14 But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, do not boast, and lie against the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but it is earthly, intellectual, and demoniacal.
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Cross References
James 3:16
For where there are envy and strife, there are contention and every evil work.
2 Corinthians 12:20
For I fear lest, having come, I may not find you as I wish, and may not be found by you as you wish; lest perhaps strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, calumniations, eavesdroppings, inflations, outfallings, are among you;
Acts 5:17
And the high priest and all those being with him, being the sect of the Sadducees, were filled with rage,
Romans 13:13
Let us walk circumspectly, as in the day; not with revelries and drunkenness, not with debaucheries and impurities, not in strife and envy:
Philippians 1:15
Some indeed through envy and strife, and some through good will, are preaching Christ:
Philippians 2:3
that nothing is to be according to self-seeking nor according to vain glory, but in humility esteeming one another better than yourselves;
Matthew 27:18
For he knew that they delivered Him on account of envy.
John 16:2
They will put you out of the synagogues: but the hour is coming, that every one killing you may think he is offering service to God.
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, envying Joseph, sold him into Egypt:
Acts 13:45
And the Jews seeing the multitudes, were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the word spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
Acts 26:9
Moreover indeed, I thought to myself that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus the Nazarene:
Romans 1:29
being filled with all injustice, wickedness, vice, covetousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceitfulness, evil affection;
Romans 2:8
but to those who are of self-seeking, and disobedient to the truth, but obedient to unrighteousness, there are indignation and wrath.
Romans 2:17
But if you are denominated a Jew, and rest in the law, and boast in God,
Romans 2:23-29
do you, who boast in the law, through the transgression of the law dishonor God?
1 Corinthians 3:3
for ye are yet carnal. For where there are envy and strife among you, are you not carnal, and walking about according to man?
1 Corinthians 4:7-8
For who judges you? and what have you which you did not receive. But if indeed you received it, why do you boast, as not having received it?
1 Corinthians 5:2
And have you been inflated, and have not rather mourned, that the one having done this work may be taken from your midst?
1 Corinthians 5:6
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
1 Corinthians 13:4
Divine love suffers long; divine love is kind; divine love envies not; does not make a display of itself, is not puffed up,
Galatians 5:15
But if you bite and devour one another, take heed that you may not be consumed one of another.
Galatians 5:21
envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and things like unto these: which I tell you beforehand, as I did previously say to you, that those doing such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:26
Let us not be fond of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians 6:13
For neither do those who are circumcised keep the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, in order that they may glory in your flesh.
1 Timothy 6:4
he has been inflated, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and controversies, from which come envy, strife, blasphemies, evil surmisings,
Titus 3:3
For when we also were without understanding, being disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in sin and envy, hateful, hating one another;
James 4:1-5
Whence come wars and whence come battles within you? are they not from thence, from your pleasures warring in your members?
James 5:19
My brethren, if any one among you may err from the truth, and one may turn him back;
1 Peter 2:1-2
Therefore having laid aside all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all calumniations;