14But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.


In Context

11 Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?

12 My brothers, can a fig tree bear olives, or a grapevine bear figs? Neither can a salt spring produce fresh water.

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

14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.

15 Such "wisdom" does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of the devil.

16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

James 3:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

3:14But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contentions in your hearts; glory not, and be not liars against the truth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

3:14But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

3:14But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

3:14and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

3:14But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.