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James 3:14
But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.
James 3:14 · Bible in Basic English
James 3:14 in other translations
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
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In context
11 Does the fountain send from the same outlet sweet and bitter water?
12 Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?
13 Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.
14 But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.
15 This wisdom is not from heaven, but is of the earth and the flesh and the Evil One.
16 For where envy is, and the desire to get the better of others, there is no order, but every sort of evil-doing.
17 But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.
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