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James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
James 3:14 · Webster Bible
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 at the same place sweet [water] and bitter?
12 Can the fig-tree, my brethren, bear olive-berries? or a vine, figs? so no fountain [can] yield both salt water and fresh.
13 Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show by a good deportment his works with meekness of wisdom.
14 But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
15 This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, demoniacal.
16 For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.
17 But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
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