James 3:13 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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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.

James 3:13 —

Old words in this verse

conversation: — way of life, conduct.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Galatians 5:23
Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
James 3:17
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Colossians 3:12
Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, longsuffering;
1 Peter 2:12
Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Topics

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 13-18)

As the sins before condemned arise from an affectation of being thought more wise than others, and being endued with more knowledge than they, so the apostle in these verses shows the difference between men’s pretending to be wise and their being really so, and between the wisdom which is from beneath (from earth or hell) and that which is from above. I. We have some account of true wisdom, with t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 13)

13. Who--(Compare Psa 34:12, 13). All wish to appear “wise”: few are so. show--“by works,” and not merely by profession, referring to Jas 2:18. out of a good conversation his works--by general “good conduct” manifested in particular “works.” “Wisdom” and “knowledge,” without these being “shown,” are as dead as faith would be without works [Alford]. with meekness of wisdom--with the meekness insepa…