James 3:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.”
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“But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.”
King James Version · Public Domain“But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo James 3:14 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 30:1When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
- Genesis 37:11And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.
- Genesis 38:9But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
- 2 Kings 10:16saying, “Come with me and see my zeal for the LORD!” So he had him ride in his chariot.
- 2 Kings 10:31Yet Jehu was not careful to follow the instruction of the LORD, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn away from the sins that Jeroboam had caused Israel to commit.
- Job 5:2For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
- Proverbs 14:30A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
- Proverbs 27:4Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?
- Isaiah 11:13Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, nor will Judah harass Ephraim.
- Habakkuk 1:3Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoing, and conflict abounds.
- Matthew 27:18For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.
- John 16:2They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is offering a service to God.
- Acts 5:17Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out
- Acts 7:9Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him
- Acts 13:45But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.
- Acts 26:9So then, I too was convinced that I ought to do all I could to oppose the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
- Romans 1:29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
- Romans 2:8But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger.
- Romans 2:17Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God;
- Romans 2:23You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by breaking the law?
- Romans 13:13Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
- 1 Corinthians 3:3for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?
- 1 Corinthians 4:7For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
- 1 Corinthians 5:2And you are proud! Shouldn’t you rather have been stricken with grief and have removed from your fellowship the man who did this?
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