James 3:14
But, if, bitter jealousy, ye have, and rivalry, in your hearts; be not boasting and showing yourselves false against the truth!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 one, from above, coming down, but is earthly, born of the soul, demoniacal!
Cross References
Genesis 37:11Then were his brethren jealous of him, but his father, marked the word.
2 Kings 10:16and said—Do come with me, and see my jealousy for Yahweh. So he made him ride in his chariot.
Job 5:2For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.
Proverbs 27:4The cruelty of rage, and the overflow of anger! But who can stand before, jealousy?
Habakkuk 1:3Wherefore shouldst thou let me see iniquity, and, wrong, shouldst let me behold, and, force and violence, be straight before me,—and there should have ever been someone who, contention and strife, would uphold?
John 16:2Excommunicants from the synagogue, will they make you; Nay! there cometh an hour, that, every one who killeth you, shall think to be rendering, divine service, unto 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 →