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James 3:16-17 KJV
James · chapter 3 · verses 16–17 · King James Version
16For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work. 17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.James 3:16-17 · King James Version
James 3:16-17 in context
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.
17But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
18And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
Commentary
Cross references
- James 3:14
- 1 Corinthians 3:3
- 1 Corinthians 14:33
- 1 John 3:12
- Galatians 5:22-23
- Proverbs 2:6
- 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
- James 3:15
- Romans 12:9
- James 1:5
- James 1:17
- Matthew 5:8
Key words (Strong's)
- confusionakatastasiainstability, a state of disorder, disturbance, confusionG181 →
- peaceableeirēnikosrelating to peace, peaceable, pacific, loving peace, bring peace with it, peaceful…G1516 →
- intreatedeupeithēseasily obeying, compliantG2138 →
- envyingzēlosexcitement of mind, ardour, fervour of spirit, zeal, ardour in embracing, pursuing…G2205 →
- strifeeritheiaelectioneering or intriguing for office, apparently, in the NT a courting distinction, a…G2052 →
- wisdomsophiawisdom, broad and full of intelligence used of the knowledge of very diverse matters, the…G4678 →
- gentleepieikēsseeming, suitable, equitable, fair, mild, gentleG1933 →
- aboveanōthenfrom above, from a higher place, of things which come from heaven or God, from the first…G509 →
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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