James 3:13 · KJV
“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.”
— James 3:13
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so {can} no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
James 3 — Context
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet {water} and bitter? {place: or, hole}
12Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so {can} no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
13Who {is} a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but {is} earthly, sensual, devilish. {sensual: or, natural}
Cross References
Galatians 5:23
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, {and} easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. {partiality: or, wrangling}
Matthew 5:5
Blessed {are} the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
1 Peter 2:12
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by {your} good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation. {whereas: or, wherein}
Titus 3:2
To speak evil of no man, to be no brawlers, {but} gentle, shewing all meekness unto all men.
2 Timothy 2:25
In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth;
Philippians 1:27
Only let your conversation be as it 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 mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;