James 3:14
World English Bible (WEB)
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
In context
12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.
13 Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
14 But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.
16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
James 3:14 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
- KJV King James Version
- But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
- ASV American Standard Version
- But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;
- DBY Darby Translation
- but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
- WBS Webster Bible
- But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.