James 3:14
but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
Darby Translation
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
15This is not the wisdom which comes down from above, but earthly, natural, devilish.
Cross References
Genesis 37:11And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying.
2 Kings 10:16and said, Come with me, and see my zeal for Jehovah. So they made him ride in his chariot.
Job 5:2For vexation killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the simple.
Proverbs 27:4Fury is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Habakkuk 1:3Why dost thou cause me to see iniquity, and lookest thou upon grievance? For spoiling and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.
John 16:2They shall put you out of the synagogues; but the hour is coming that every one who kills you will think to render 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 →