the Week of Proper 23 / Ordinary 28
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James 3:14
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But if you are selfish and have bitter jealousy in your hearts, do not brag. Your bragging is a lie that hides the truth.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.
If you have jealousy in your heart and fight to have many things, do not be proud of it. Do not lie against the truth.
But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be boastful and false to the truth.
But, if, bitter jealousy, ye have, and rivalry, in your hearts; be not boasting and showing yourselves false against the truth!
But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contention in your hearts: glory not and be not liars against the truth.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
But Yf ye have bitter envyinge and stryfe in youre hertes reioyce not: nether be lyars agaynst the trueth.
But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don't cover up the truth with boasting and lying.
If you are selfish and have bitter jealousy in your hearts, you have no reason to boast. Your boasting is a lie that hides the truth.
But if you have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.
But yf ye haue bitter enuyenge and stryfe in yor hertes, reioyce not: nether be lyars agaynst the trueth.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.
But if you have bitter envying among you, or strife in your hearts, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.
But if in your heart you are jealous, bitter, and selfish, don't sin against the truth by boasting of your wisdom.
But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't brag and 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.
But if you have bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, stop boasting and lying against the truth.Romans 2:17,23; 13:13;">[xr]
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
But if ye haue bitter enuying and strife in your hearts, reioyce not, neither be liars against the trueth.
But if ye haue bitter enuying and strife in your hearts glory not, and lie not against the trueth.
But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.
But if you harbor in your hearts bitter jealousy and selfish ambition, do not boast in it or deny the truth.
But if your heart is full of bitter jealousy and selfishness, don't brag or lie to cover up the truth.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant, and [as a result] be in defiance of the truth.
But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.
But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.
But if you harbor in your hearts bitter jealousy and selfish ambition, don't boast and attack the truth with lies!
but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, don't glory and don't lie against the truth.
But if you have bitter envy among yourselves, or contention be in your hearts, be not inflated against the truth, nor lie;
But if bitter envy be in you, or contention in your hearts, exalt not yourselves against the truth, and lie not.
But if in your hearts you have bitter feelings of envy and rivalry, do not speak boastfully and falsely, in defiance of the truth.
That if ye han bitter enuye, and stryuyngis ben in youre hertis, nyle ye haue glorye, and be lyeris ayens the treuthe.
and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;
But yf ye haue bitter enuiyng & strife in your hearte, glorie not, neither be lyers agaynst the trueth.
but if envy and contention imbitter your minds, don't think your false pretences can stand against the truth:
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.
But if ye have bitter zeal and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth.
But if your way is riddled with bitter jealousy and always lookin' out only for yourself, don't go around braggin' and lyin' about who you really are.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
if: James 3:16, James 4:1-5, Genesis 30:1, Genesis 30:2, Genesis 37:11, Job 5:2, Proverbs 14:30, Proverbs 27:4, Isaiah 11:13, Habakkuk 1:3, Matthew 27:18, Acts 5:17, Acts 7:9, Acts 13:45, Romans 1:29, Romans 13:13, 1 Corinthians 3:3, 1 Corinthians 13:4, 2 Corinthians 12:20, Galatians 5:15, Galatians 5:21, Galatians 5:26, Philippians 1:15, Philippians 2:3, 1 Timothy 6:4, Titus 3:3, 1 Peter 2:1, 1 Peter 2:2
glory: Romans 2:17, Romans 2:23-29, 1 Corinthians 4:7, 1 Corinthians 4:8, 1 Corinthians 5:2, 1 Corinthians 5:6, Galatians 6:13
and lie: 2 Kings 10:16, 2 Kings 10:31, John 16:2, Acts 26:9
Reciprocal: Genesis 38:9 - lest that Exodus 1:9 - the people Numbers 11:29 - Enviest 2 Samuel 19:9 - strife 2 Samuel 19:43 - the words 1 Kings 12:14 - My father made 2 Chronicles 10:14 - My father Psalms 31:20 - the strife Psalms 37:8 - Cease Proverbs 6:19 - that soweth Proverbs 13:10 - Only Proverbs 15:18 - wrathful Proverbs 16:28 - froward Proverbs 17:14 - leave Proverbs 17:19 - loveth Proverbs 20:3 - but Jeremiah 9:23 - wise Zechariah 11:14 - I cut Matthew 18:35 - from Matthew 20:24 - they Mark 9:50 - have peace Mark 15:10 - for envy Luke 9:54 - wilt John 3:26 - he that John 12:11 - General Acts 23:10 - fearing Galatians 5:19 - Adultery Ephesians 4:31 - bitterness Philippians 2:14 - disputings Colossians 2:18 - fleshly Colossians 3:8 - anger Colossians 3:19 - bitter James 4:16 - General
Cross-References
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.
And Adam called his wife's name Eve; because she was the mother of all living.
Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.
Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust, and thy voice shall be, as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.
The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord .
They shall lick the dust like a serpent, they shall move out of their holes like worms of the earth: they shall be afraid of the Lord our God, and shall fear because of thee.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,.... Though these may not be expressed by words, or actions: envy at the happiness of others, whether at the external blessings of Providence, as riches and honours, or at the internal endowments of their minds, as their wisdom and knowledge, their parts and abilities, is a root of bitterness in the heart, which bears wormwood and gall, and produces bitter effects in the persons in whom it is; it embitters their minds against their neighbours and friends; it is rottenness in their bones, and slays and destroys those who are so silly as to be governed by it; and also in the persons the objects of it; for who can stand before it? and strife in the mind, or an intention to strive end quarrel with others, who are the objects of envy, is very sinful, and of pernicious consequence: and if these be fomented and cherished in the minds and breasts of men, though they may not outwardly show themselves, yet
glory not; let not such boast of their being Gnostics, wise men, and endued with knowledge; they are far from deserving such a character; and such boasting is contrary to truth, yea, is lying against it, as follows:
and lie not against the truth; for, for a man to assert himself to be a wise and knowing man, and yet cherishes bitterness in his heart, and quarrelling and contention in his mind, arising from envy, at the equal or superior knowledge of others, he lies both against the truth of God's word and his own conscience, which condemn such things as ignorance, folly, and madness.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts - If that is your characteristic. There is reference here to a fierce and unholy zeal against each other; a spirit of ambition and contention.
Glory not - Do not boast, in such a case, of your qualifications to be public teachers. Nothing would render you more unfit for such an office than such a spirit.
And lie not against the truth - You would lie against what is true by setting up a claim to the requisite qualifications for such an office, if this is your spirit. Men should seek no office or station which they could not properly seek if the whole truth about them were known.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 14. If ye have bitter envying and strife — If ye be under the influence of an unkind, fierce, and contemptuous spirit, even while attempting or pretending to defend true religion, do not boast either of your exertions or success in silencing an adversary; ye have no religion, and no true wisdom, and to profess either is to lie against the truth. Let all writers on what is called polemic (fighting, warring) divinity lay this to heart. The pious Mr. Herbert gives excellent advice on this subject: -
"Be calm in arguing, for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy;
Why should I feel another man's mistakes
More than his sickness or his poverty?
In love I should; but anger is not love,
Nor wisdom neither; therefore g-e-n-t-l-y m-o-v-e."
