James 3:14 - The Scriptures 2009

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

James 3:16

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

1 Corinthians 13:4

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

Philippians 2:3

doing none at all through selfishness or self-conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.

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?

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,

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,

Philippians 1:15

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

James 5:19

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

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,

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.

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,

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!

Romans 2:8

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

Proverbs 27:4

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

Proverbs 14:30

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

2 Kings 10:31

But Yĕhu did not guard to walk in the Torah of יהוה Elohim of Yisra’ĕl with all his heart. For he did not turn away from the sins of Yaroḇ‛am, who had made Yisra’ĕl sin.

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.

Galatians 5:26

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

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 5:15

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

1 Corinthians 5:6

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

Romans 2:17

See, you are called a Yehuḏi, and rest on the Torah, and make your boast in Elohim,

Romans 1:29

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

Acts 26:9

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

Acts 13:45

But when the Yehuḏim saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy. And contradicting and speaking evil, they opposed what Sha’ul was saying.

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.

Matthew 27:18

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

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.

Isaiah 11:13

And the envy of Ephrayim shall turn aside, and the adversaries of Yehuḏah be cut off. Ephrayim shall not envy Yehuḏah, and Yehuḏah not trouble Ephrayim.

Job 5:2

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

2 Kings 10:16

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

Genesis 37:11

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

Acts 7:9

“And the ancestors, becoming jealous, sold Yosĕph into Mitsrayim. But Elohim was with him,

Galatians 5:20

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

1 Timothy 2:4

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

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.

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.