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


In Context

11 Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?

12 Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

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

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

15 This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.

16 For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

3:14But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny 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 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.