James 3:14
But if you have bitter jealousy and ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
Unlocked Literal Bible
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 that comes down from above. Instead, it is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
Cross References
Genesis 37:11His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
2 Kings 10:16Jehu said, “Come with me and see my zeal for Yahweh.” So he had Jonadab ride along with him in his chariot.
Job 5:2For anger kills the foolish man; 1 jealousy kills the silly one. 1
Proverbs 27:4There is the cruelty of rage and the flood of anger, 1 but who is able to stand before jealousy? 1
Habakkuk 1:3Why do you make me see iniquity and look upon wrongdoing? 1 Destruction and violence are before me; there is strife, and contention rises up. 1
John 16:2They will throw you out of the synagogues. But the hour is coming when everyone who kills you will think that he is offering a 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 →