American Standard Version
"But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. "
— James 3:14, American Standard Version
“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 you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies 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 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 ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.”
Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?
can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.
Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.
But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.
This wisdom is not a wisdom that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, without hypocrisy.