James 3:14
yet, if you have bitter zeal, and rivalry in your heart, do not glory, nor lie against the truth;
Literal Standard Version
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 wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,
Cross References
Genesis 37:11And his brothers are zealous against him, and his father has watched the matter.
2 Kings 10:16and says, “Come with me, and look on my zeal for YHWH”; and they cause him to ride in his chariot.
Job 5:2For provocation slays the perverse, || And envy puts to death the simple,
Proverbs 27:4Fury [is] fierce, and anger [is] overflowing, || And who stands before jealousy?
Habakkuk 1:3Why do You show me iniquity, || And cause [me] to behold perversity? And spoiling and violence [are] before me, || And there is strife, and contention lifts [itself] up,
John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues, but an hour comes that everyone who has killed you may think to offer 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 →