13Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.


In Context

10 out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

11 Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?

12 Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither can'salt water yield sweet.

13 Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

15 This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

James 3:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:13Who [is] a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:13Who is a wise man, and endued with knowledge among you? Let him shew, by a good conversation, his work in the meekness of wisdom.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:13Who is wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:13Who is wise and understanding among you? let him shew by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show by a good deportment his works with meekness of wisdom.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:13Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:13Who is wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him show out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.