James 3:14
But if ye haue bitter enuying and strife in your hearts, reioyce not, neither be liars against the trueth.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 wisedome descendeth not from aboue, but is earthly, sensuall, and deuilish.
Cross References
Genesis 37:11And his brethren enuied him, but his father noted the saying.
2 Kings 10:16And he sayde, Come with me, and see the zeale that I haue for the Lord: so they made him ride in his charet.
Job 5:2Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.
Proverbs 27:4Anger is cruell, and wrath is raging: but who can stand before enuie?
Habakkuk 1:3Why doest thou shewe mee iniquitie, and cause me to beholde sorowe? for spoyling, and violence are before me: and there are that rayse vp strife and contention.
John 16:2They shall excommunicate you: yea, the time shall come, that whosoeuer killeth you, will thinke that he doeth God seruice.
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 →