James 3:14 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁴ But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contentions in your hearts; glory not, and be not liars against the truth.

James 3:14 Cross References

Genesis 37:11

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

Genesis 38:9

But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his; so when he went in to his brother's wife he spilled the semen on the ground, lest he should give offspring to his brother.

2 Kings 10:16

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

2 Kings 10:31

But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord the God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.

Job 5:2

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

Proverbs 14:30

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

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming; but who can stand before jealousy?

Isaiah 11:13

The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and those who harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.

Habakkuk 1:3

Why dost thou make me see wrongs and look upon trouble? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.

Matthew 27:18

For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.

John 16:2

They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.

Acts 13:45

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted what was spoken by Paul, and reviled him.

Acts 26:9

“I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Acts 5:17

But the high priest rose up and all who were with him, that is, the party of the Sadducees, and filled with jealousy

Acts 7:9

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

Romans 1:29

They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips,

Romans 13:13

let us conduct ourselves becomingly as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.

Romans 2:17

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

Romans 2:8

but for those who are factious and do not obey the truth, but obey wickedness, there will be wrath and fury.

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient and kind; love is not jealous or boastful;

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh, and behaving like ordinary men?

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.

1 Corinthians 5:6

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?

2 Corinthians 12:20

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

Galatians 5:15

But if you bite and devour one another take heed that you are not consumed by one another.

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party spirit,

Galatians 5:21

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Galatians 5:26

Let us have no self-conceit, no provoking of one another, no envy of one another.

Galatians 6:13

For even those who receive circumcision do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may glory in your flesh.

Philippians 1:15

Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.

Philippians 2:3

Do nothing from selfishness or conceit, but in humility count others better than yourselves.

1 Timothy 2:4

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

1 Timothy 6:4

he is puffed up with conceit, he knows nothing; he has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions,

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, hated by men and hating one another;

James 1:18

Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth that we should be a kind of first fruits of his creatures.

James 3:16

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

James 5:19

My brethren, if any one among you wanders from the truth and some one brings him back,