James 3:14 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁴ But if you have bitter jealousy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast against and lie against 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

Genesis 37:11

And his brothers envied him, but his father guarded the word.

Genesis 38:9

And Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. And it came to be, when he went in to his brother’s wife, that he spilled on the ground, lest he should give an offspring to his brother.

2 Kings 10:16

And he said, “Come with me, and see my ardour for יהוה.” And they made him ride in his chariot.

2 Kings 10:31

But Yĕ

Job 5:2

For wrath kills the fool, and envy slays the simple.

Proverbs 14:30

A healthy heart is life to the body, But envy is rottenness to the bones.

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel and displeasure overwhelming, But who is able to stand before jealousy?

Isaiah 11:13

And the envy of Ephrayim shall turn aside, and the adversaries of Yehuḏ

Habakkuk 1:3

Why do You show me wickedness, and cause me to see perversity? For ruin and violence are before me. And there is strife, and contention arises.

Matthew 27:18

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered Him up.

John 16:2

“They shall put you out of the congregations, but an hour is coming when everyone who kills you shall think he is rendering service to Elohim.

Acts 13:45

But when the Yehuḏ

Acts 26:9

“Therefore, indeed, I thought within myself that I ought to do much against the Name of יהושע  of Natsareth,

Acts 5:17

But the high priest rose up, and all those with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees, and they were filled with jealousy,

Acts 7:9

“And the ancestors, becoming jealous, sold Yosĕ

Romans 1:29

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoring, wickedness, greed, evil; filled with envy, murder, fighting, deceit, evil habits; whisperers,

Romans 13:13

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day, not in wild parties and drunkenness, not in living together and indecencies, not in fighting and envy,

Romans 2:17

See, you are called a Yehuḏ

Romans 2:8

but wrath and displeasure to those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness;

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient, is kind, love does not envy, love does not boast, is not puffed up,

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still fleshly. For since there is envy, and strife, and divisions among you, are you not fleshly and walking according to man?

1 Corinthians 5:2

And you have been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, so that he who has done this deed, be removed from among you!

1 Corinthians 5:6

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

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I fear lest, when I come, I do not find you such as I wish, and I be found by you such as you do not wish – lest there be strife, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, puffings up, unrests,

Galatians 5:15

And if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another!

Galatians 5:20

idolatry, drug sorcery, hatred, quarrels, jealousies, fits of rage, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,

Galatians 5:21

envy, murders, drunkenness, wild parties, and the like – of which I forewarn you, even as I also said before, that those who practise such as these shall not inherit the reign of Elohim.

Galatians 5:26

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Galatians 6:13

For those who are circumcised do not even watch over the Torah, but they wish to have you circumcised so that they might boast in your flesh.

Philippians 1:15

Some indeed proclaim Messiah even from envy and strife, but some also out of pleasure –

Philippians 2:3

doing none at all through selfishness or self-conceit, but in humility consider 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, understanding none at all, but is sick about questionings and verbal battles from which come envy, strife, slander, wicked suspicions,

Titus 3:3

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in evil and envy, being hated and hating one another.

James 1:18

Having purposed it, He brought us forth by the Word of truth, for us to be a kind of first-fruits of His creatures.

James 3:16

For where jealousy and self-seeking are, there is confusion and every foul deed.

James 5:19

Brothers, if anyone among you goes astray from the truth, and someone turns him back,