James 3:14

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

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

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

In Context

13Who is wise and discreet among you? Let him show, by a good behavior, his works, with the meekness of wisdom.

15This wisdom comes not from above, but is earthly, animal, demoniac.

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Cross References

John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues; indeed, the time is coming, when he that kills you, will think that he is offering service to God.

Matthew Henry on James 3:14-18

Properties of Wisdom. ( a. d. 61.) 13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. 14 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. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be… Read the whole commentary →

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