James 3:14

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰ δὲ ζῆλον πικρὸν ἔχετε καὶ ἐριθείαν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ὑμῶν, μὴ κατακαυχᾶσθε, καὶ ψεύδεσθε κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας.

Transliteration

If de zēlon pikron you echete and eritheian in the kardia of you, mē katakauchāsthe, and pseudesthe against the alētheias.

Grammar Details

• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *zēlon*: accusative, masculine, singular - jealousy/zeal
• *pikron*: accusative, masculine, singular - bitter
• *echete*: present indicative, active, 2nd plural - you have
• *eritheian*: accusative, feminine, singular - selfish ambition/rivalry
• *kardia*: dative, feminine, singular - heart
• *mē*: negative particle - not
• *katakauchāsthe*: present imperative, middle, 2nd plural - boast/glory
• *pseudesthe*: present imperative, middle, 2nd plural - lie/speak falsely
• *alētheias*: genitive, feminine, singular - truth

Word Meanings

• *zēlon*: jealousy/zeal/envy
• *pikron*: bitter/harsh
• *eritheian*: selfish ambition/rivalry/strife
• *kardia*: heart/mind/inner self
• *katakauchāsthe*: boast/glory/pride yourselves
• *pseudesthe*: lie/speak falsely/deceive
• *alētheias*: truth/reality

Referenced Verses

• Jas 3:16 : 16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
• Phil 2:3 : 3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
• 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
• 1 Cor 3:3 : 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?
• Phil 1:15 : 15 Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
• Rom 13:13 : 13 Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
• 1 Cor 13:4 : 4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
• Acts 5:17 : 17 Then the high priest rose up, and all they that were with him,(which is the sect of the Sadducees,) and were filled with indignation,
• Acts 7:9 : 9 And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
• Acts 13:45 : 45 But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
• Acts 26:9 : 9 I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
• Rom 1:29 : 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
• Rom 2:8 : 8 But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
• Rom 2:17 : 17 Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
• Rom 2:23-29 : 23 Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God? 24 For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written. 25 For circumcision verily profiteth, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a breaker of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision. 26 Therefore if the uncircumcision keep the righteousness of the law, shall not his uncircumcision be counted for circumcision? 27 And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law? 28 For he is not a Jew, which is one outwardly; neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh: 29 But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.
• Gen 30:1-2 : 1 And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die. 2 And Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel: and he said, Am I in God's stead, who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?
• Gen 37:11 : 11 And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
• 2 Kgs 10:16 : 16 And he said, Come with me, and see my zeal for the LORD. So they made him ride in his chariot.
• 2 Kgs 10:31 : 31 But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the LORD God of Israel with all his heart: for he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam, which made Israel to sin.
• Job 5:2 : 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
• Prov 14:30 : 30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
• Prov 27:4 : 4 Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
• Isa 11:13 : 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
• Hab 1:3 : 3 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause me to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
• Matt 27:18 : 18 For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.
• John 16:2 : 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.
• 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Jas 4:1-5 : 1 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts. 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God. 5 {G2228} Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
• Jas 5:19 : 19 Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
• 1 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, 2 As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
• 1 Cor 4:7-8 : 7 For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it? 8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.
• 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
• 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?
• Gal 5:15 : 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
• Gal 5:21 : 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Gal 5:26 : 26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
• Gal 6:13 : 13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.