James 3:14 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁴ But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant and lie about the truth.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy (envy) and contention (rivalry, selfish ambition) in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus be in defiance of and false to the Truth.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁴ But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

Common English Bible

¹⁴ However, if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, then stop bragging and living in ways that deny the truth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ But if you hold a bitter zeal, and if there is contention in your hearts, then do not boast and do not be liars against the truth.

James 3:14 Cross References

James 3:16

For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still fleshly. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not fleshly and behaving according to human inclinations?

Romans 13:13

let us walk decently as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in illicit sex and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear that when I come I may find you not as I wish and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.

Philippians 1:15

Some proclaim Christ from envy and rivalry but others from goodwill.

James 5:19

My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and is brought back by another,

Acts 5:17

Then the high priest took action; he and all who were with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), being filled with jealousy,

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.

1 Timothy 6:4

is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words. From these come envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions,

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are arrogant! Should you not rather have mourned, so that he who has done this would have been removed from among you?

Romans 2:8

while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but injustice, there will be wrath and fury.

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Proverbs 14:30

A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh, but jealousy makes the bones rot.

2 Kings 10:31

But Jehu was not careful to follow the law of the Lord the God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam that he caused Israel to commit.

Galatians 6:13

Even the circumcised do not themselves obey the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast about your flesh.

Galatians 5:26

Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.

Galatians 5:21

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:15

If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all of the dough?

Romans 2:17

But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast of your relation to God

Romans 1:29

They were filled with every kind of injustice, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips,

Acts 26:9

“Indeed, I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things against the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Acts 13:45

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and blaspheming, they contradicted what was spoken by Paul.

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, an hour is coming when those who kill you will think that by doing so they are offering worship to God.

Matthew 27:18

For he realized that it was out of jealousy that they had handed him over.

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do you make me see wrongdoing and look at trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

Isaiah 11:13

The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart; the hostility of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not be hostile toward Ephraim.

Job 5:2

Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

2 Kings 10:16

He said, “Come with me and see my zeal for the Lord.” So he had him ride in his chariot.

Genesis 37:11

So his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.

Acts 7:9

“The patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, anger, quarrels, dissensions, factions,

1 Timothy 2:4

who desires everyone to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

James 1:18

In fulfillment of his own purpose he gave birth to us by the word of truth, so that we would become a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

Genesis 38:9

But since Onan knew that the offspring would not be his, he spilled his semen on the ground whenever he went in to his brother’s wife, so that he would not give offspring to his brother.