James 3:14

In 9 translations

BSB

But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.

KJV

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

WEB

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

ASV

But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

LSV

yet, if you have bitter zeal, and rivalry in your heart, do not glory, nor lie against the truth;

YLT

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

DBY

but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

DRC

But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contentions in your hearts; glory not, and be not liars against the truth.

GNV

But if ye haue bitter enuying and strife in your hearts, reioyce not, neither be liars against the trueth.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

εἰ δὲ ζῆλον πικρὸν ἔχετε καὶ ἐριθείαν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ὑμῶν, μὴ κατακαυχᾶσθε καὶ ψεύδεσθε κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας.

RP2018

Εἰ δὲ ζῆλον πικρὸν ἔχετε καὶ ἐριθείαν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ὑμῶν, μὴ κατακαυχᾶσθε καὶ ψεύδεσθε κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας.

TR-Boyd

Εἰ δὲ ζῆλον πικρὸν ἔχετε καὶ ἐριθείαν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ὑμῶν, μὴ κατακαυχᾶσθε καὶ ψεύδεσθε κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας.

SCR1894

ει δε ζηλον πικρον εχετε και εριθειαν εν τη καρδια υμων μη κατακαυχασθε και ψευδεσθε κατα της αληθειας

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• James 3:16For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.
• 1 Corinthians 13:4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
• Philippians 2:3Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.
• 1 Corinthians 3:3for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
• Romans 13:13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
• 2 Corinthians 12:20For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.
• 1 Peter 2:1–2Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander. Like newborn babies, crave pure spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow up in your salvation,
• Philippians 1:15It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill.
• Titus 3:3For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient, misled, and enslaved to all sorts of desires and pleasures—living in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.
• James 5:19My brothers, if one of you should wander from the truth and someone should bring him back,
• 1 Timothy 6:4he is conceited and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and semantics, out of which come envy, strife, abusive talk, evil suspicions,
• Acts 5:17Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out
• Proverbs 27:4Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?
• Romans 2:23–29You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law? As it is written: “God’s name is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” Circumcision has value if you observe the law, but if you break the…
• 1 Corinthians 5:2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
• 2 Kings 10:31Yet Jehu was not careful to follow the instruction of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.

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