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James 3:13 KJV
James · chapter 3 · verse 13
Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.James 3:13 · King James Version
James 3:13 in context
11Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
12Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
Commentary
Cross references
- Galatians 5:23
- James 3:17
- Matthew 5:5
- Colossians 3:12
- 1 Peter 2:12
- Titus 3:2
- Philippians 1:27
- 2 Timothy 2:25
Key words (Strong's)
- conversationanastrophēmanner of life, conduct, behaviour, deportmentG391 →
- knowledgeepistēmōnintelligent, experienced, one having the knowledge of an expertG1990 →
- meeknessprautēsmildness of disposition, gentleness of spirit, meeknessG4240 →
- amongenin, by, with etcG1722 →
- worksergonbusiness, employment, that which any one is occupied, that which one undertakes to do…G2041 →
- shewdeiknyōto show, expose to the eyes, metaph., to give evidence or proof of a thing, to show by…G1166 →
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As the sins before condemned arise from an affectation of being thought more wise than others, and being endued with more knowledge than they, so the apostle in these verses shows the difference between men's pretending to be wise and their being really so, and between the wisdom which is from beneath (from earth or…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 13-18