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James 3:14
But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth.
James 3:14 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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 Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water?
12 Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear grapes? Or the vine, figs? So neither can the salt water yield sweet.
13 Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge, among you? Let him shew, by a good contestation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.
14 But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth.
15 For this is not wisdom, descending from above: but earthly, sensual, devilish.
16 For where envying and contention is: there is inconstancy and every evil work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above, first indeed is chaste, then peaceable, modest, easy to be persuaded, consenting to the good, full of mercy and good fruits, without judging, without dissimulation.
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