Bible Compass
Log inGet started
Back to the chapter

James 3:14

Envy and jealousyPrideTruth and honesty

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

13 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.

15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

Read the whole chapter

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

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.
DARBY
but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
BLB
But if you⁺ have bitter jealousy and self-interest in your⁺ heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
ÅB
Men har dere besk avind og trettesyke i deres hjerter, da ros dere ikke mot sannheten og lyv ikke mot den!
OTB
Men hvis dere nærer bitter misunnelse og egoistisk ambisjon i hjertene deres, ikke skryt av det eller fornekt sannheten.
B1930
Men har I besk avind og trettesyke i eders hjerter, da ros eder ikke mot sannheten og lyv ikke mot den!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references