"But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth." — James 3:14

James 3:14 · KJV

“But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.”

— James 3:14

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.

Verse 15

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but {is} earthly, sensual, devilish. {sensual: or, natural}

James 3 — Context

Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so {can} no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

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.

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

This wisdom descendeth not from above, but {is} earthly, sensual, devilish. {sensual: or, natural}

For where envying and strife {is}, there {is} confusion and every evil work. {confusion: Gr. tumult, or, unquietness}

Cross References

James 3:16

For where envying and strife {is}, there {is} confusion and every evil work. {confusion: Gr. tumult, or, unquietness}

1 Corinthians 13:4

Charity suffereth long, {and} is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, {vaunteth...: or, is not rash}

Philippians 2:3

{Let} nothing {be done} through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

1 Corinthians 3:3

For ye are yet carnal: for whereas {there is} among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men? {divisions: or, factions} {as men: Gr. according to man?}

Romans 13:13

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. {honestly: or, decently}

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and {that} I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest {there be} debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

1 Peter 2:1-2

Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Philippians 1:15

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will: