James 3:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

James 3:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

James 3:16
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Philippians 2:3
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
1 Corinthians 3:3
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
Romans 13:13
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Topics

Anger Contention Envy Godliness Hatred Holiness Honesty Integrity

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. 14)

14. if ye have--as is the case (this is implied in the Greek indicative). bitter--Ep 4:31, “bitterness.” envying--rather, “emulation,” or literally, “zeal”: kindly, generous emulation, or zeal, is not condemned, but that which is “bitter” [Bengel]. strife--rather, “rivalry.” in your hearts--from which flow your words and deeds, as from a fountain. glory not, and lie not against the truth--To boast…