Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth.

New American Standard Bible

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

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.

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.

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;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
But
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

if
εἰ 
Ei 
if, whether, that, not tr,
Usage: 218

ye have
ἔχω 
Echo 
have, be, need , , vr have
Usage: 479

πικρός 
Pikros 
Usage: 2

ζῆλος 
Zelos 
Usage: 17

and



and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

ἐριθεία 
Eritheia 
Usage: 7

in
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

ὑμῶν 
Humon 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
Usage: 371

καρδία 
Kardia 
Usage: 116

κατακαυχάομαι 
Katakauchaomai 
Usage: 4

not
μή 
me 
not, no, that not, God forbid 9, lest, neither, no man , but, none, not translated,
Usage: 493

lie
ψεύδομαι 
Pseudomai 
Usage: 10

not against
κατά 
Kata 
according to, after, against, in, by, daily , as,
Usage: 428

References

Images James 3:14

Prayers for James 3:14

Context Readings

The Wisdom That Comes Down From Above

13 Who wise and knowing among you? let him show out of a good mode of life his works in meekness of wisdom. 14 And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth. 15 This is wisdom coming not down from above, but earthly, natural, resembling an evil spirit.


Cross References

James 3:16

For where envy and intrigue, there confusion and every bad deed.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid, lest somehow, having come, I find you not such; as I will, and I find you such as ye wish not: lest somehow, strifes, jealousies, wraths, intrigues, calumnies, whisperings, inflations, derangements:

Acts 5:17

And the chief priest having risen, and all they with him, (the sect being of the Sadducees,) they were filled with zeal,

Romans 13:13

As in the day, let us walk becomingly; not in revelries and drunkenness, not in coition and licentiousness, not in strife and envy.

Philippians 1:15

And some truly by envy and strife, and some also by kindness of disposition, proclaim Christ.

Philippians 2:3

Nothing by hired labor, or vainglory; but in lowliness the leaders hold each other above themselves.

Genesis 30:1-2

And Rachel will see that she shall not bring forth to Jacob, and Rachel will envy her sister, and will say to Jacob, Give me sons, and if not, I die.

Genesis 37:11

And his brethren will envy him; and his father observed the word.

2 Kings 10:16

And he will say, Come with me, and see in my being zealous to Jehovah. And they caused him to ride with him in his chariot

2 Kings 10:31

And Jehu watched not to go in the law of Jehovah God of Israel with all his heart: he turned not away from the sins of Jeroboam who caused Israel to sin.

Job 5:2

For to the foolish, and anger will slay, and the simple will jealousy kill.

Proverbs 14:30

A heart of healing, the life of the flesh: and jealousy the rottenness of the bones.

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruelty, and anger an overflowing; and who shall stand before jealousy?

Isaiah 11:13

And the jealousy of Ephraim was removed, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not press upon Ephraim.

Habakkuk 1:3

Wherefore wilt thou cause me to see vanity and cause me to look at labor? and oppression and violence before me, and there will be contention, and strife will be raised up.

Matthew 27:18

For he knew that through envy, they had delivered him, up.

John 16:2

They shall make you excluded from the synagogue: but the hour comes that every one having slain you should think to bring service to God.

Acts 7:9

And the patriarchs having been jealous, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

Acts 13:45

And the Jews, having seen the crowds, were filled with envy, and spake against the things said by Paul, contradicting and defaming.

Acts 26:9

I therefore truly thought to myself, I must do many things contrary to the name of Jesus, the Nazarite.

Romans 1:29

Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,

Romans 2:8

But to them of intrigue, and are truly disobedient to the truth, and yielding to injustice, anger and wrath,

Romans 2:17

Behold, thou art named a Jew, and restest upon the law, and boastest thyself in God,

Romans 2:23-29

Thou who boastest in the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest thou God?

1 Corinthians 3:3

For yet are ye carnal: for wherefore envy in you, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?

1 Corinthians 4:7-8

For who distinguishes thee? and what hast thou which thou didst not receive? and if thou also didst receive, why dost thou boast, as not having received?

1 Corinthians 5:2

And ye were puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he having done this work might be taken away from the midst of you.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting not good. Know ye not that a little leaven may leaven the whole mixture?

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is slow to anger, possesses kindness; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,

Galatians 5:15

And if ye bite and devour one another, see ye that ye be not laid waste by one another.

Galatians 5:21

Envyings, slaughters, drunkenness, revelries, and the like: to these which I foretell you, as I have also said before, that they doing such shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:26

Let us not be vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

Galatians 6:13

For neither they being circumcised themselves observe the law; but they wish you to be circumcised, that they might boast in your flesh.

1 Timothy 6:4

He has been proud, knowing nothing, but sick about questions and disputes of words, of which is envy, strife, slanders, evil conjectures,

Titus 3:3

For once we also were unwise disobedient, deceived, being slaves to eager desires and various pleasures, living in vexation and envy, hated, and hating one another.

James 4:1-5

Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members

James 5:19

Brethren, if any among you be led astray from the truth, and any should turn him back;

1 Peter 2:1-2

Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,

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