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James 3:14 KJV
James · chapter 3 · verse 14
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.James 3:14 · King James Version
James 3:14 in context
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.
16For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
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Key words (Strong's)
- envyingzēlosexcitement of mind, ardour, fervour of spirit, zeal, ardour in embracing, pursuing…G2205 →
- againstkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- bitterpikrosbitter, metaph. harsh, virulentG4089 →
- strifeeritheiaelectioneering or intriguing for office, apparently, in the NT a courting distinction, a…G2052 →
- heartskardiathe heart, that organ in the animal body which is the centre of the circulation of the…G2588 →
- glorykatakauchaomaito glory against, to exult over, to boast one's self to the injuryG2620 →
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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