James 3:14

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

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  • Jas 3:16 : 16 for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter;
  • Phil 2:3 : 3 nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --
  • 2 Cor 12:20 : 20 for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,
  • 1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for yet ye are fleshly, for where `there is' among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?
  • Phil 1:15 : 15 Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;
  • Rom 13:13 : 13 as in day-time, let us walk becomingly; not in revellings and drunkennesses, not in chamberings and lasciviousnesses, not in strife and emulation;
  • 1 Cor 13:4 : 4 The love is long-suffering, it is kind, the love doth not envy, the love doth not vaunt itself, is not puffed up,
  • Acts 5:17 : 17 And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him -- being the sect of the Sadducees -- were filled with zeal,
  • Acts 7:9 : 9 and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,
  • Acts 13:45 : 45 and the Jews having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and did contradict the things spoken by Paul -- contradicting and speaking evil.
  • Acts 26:9 : 9 `I, indeed, therefore, thought with myself, that against the name of Jesus of Nazareth it behoved `me' many things to do,
  • Rom 1:29 : 29 having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
  • Rom 2:8 : 8 and to those contentious, and disobedient, indeed, to the truth, and obeying the unrighteousness -- indignation and wrath,
  • Rom 2:17 : 17 Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,
  • Rom 2:23-29 : 23 thou who in the law dost boast, through the transgression of the law God dost thou dishonour? 24 for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written. 25 For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision. 26 If, therefore the uncircumcision the righteousness of the law may keep, shall not his uncircumcision for circumcision be reckoned? 27 and the uncircumcision, by nature, fulfilling the law, shall judge thee who, through letter and circumcision, `art' a transgressor of law. 28 For he is not a Jew who is `so' outwardly, neither `is' circumcision that which is outward in flesh; 29 but a Jew `is' he who is `so' inwardly, and circumcision `is' of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.
  • Gen 30:1-2 : 1 And Rachel seeth that she hath not borne to Jacob, and Rachel is envious of her sister, and saith unto Jacob, `Give me sons, and if there is none -- I die.' 2 And Jacob's anger burneth against Rachel, and he saith, `Am I in stead of God who hath withheld from thee the fruit of the womb?'
  • Gen 37:11 : 11 and his brethren are zealous against him, and his father hath watched the matter.
  • 2 Kgs 10:16 : 16 and saith, `Come with me, and look on my zeal for Jehovah;' and they cause him to ride in his chariot.
  • 2 Kgs 10:31 : 31 And Jehu hath not taken heed to walk in the law of Jehovah, God of Israel, with all his heart, he hath not turned aside from the sins of Jeroboam, that he caused Israel to sin.
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,
  • Prov 14:30 : 30 A healed heart `is' life to the flesh, And rottenness to the bones `is' envy.
  • Prov 27:4 : 4 Fury `is' fierce, and anger `is' overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?
  • Isa 11:13 : 13 And turned aside hath the envy of Ephraim, And the adversaries of Judah are cut off, Ephraim doth not envy Judah, And Judah doth not distress Ephraim.
  • Hab 1:3 : 3 Why dost Thou shew me iniquity, And perversity dost cause to behold? And spoiling and violence `are' before me, And there is strife, and contention doth lift `itself' up,
  • Matt 27:18 : 18 for he had known that because of envy they had delivered him up.
  • John 16:2 : 2 out of the synagogues they will put you; but an hour doth come, that every one who hath killed you, may think to offer service unto God;
  • 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;
  • Jas 4:1-5 : 1 Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? 2 ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking; 3 ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'. 4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set. 5 Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'
  • Jas 5:19 : 19 Brethren, if any among you may go astray from the truth, and any one may turn him back,
  • 1 Pet 2:1-2 : 1 Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings, 2 as new-born babes the word's pure milk desire ye, that in it ye may grow,
  • 1 Cor 4:7-8 : 7 for who doth make thee to differ? and what hast thou, that thou didst not receive? and if thou didst also receive, why dost thou glory as not having received? 8 Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,
  • 1 Cor 5:2 : 2 and ye are having been puffed up, and did not rather mourn, that he may be removed out of the midst of you who did this work,
  • 1 Cor 5:6 : 6 Not good `is' your glorying; have ye not known that a little leaven the whole lump doth leaven?
  • Gal 5:15 : 15 and if one another ye do bite and devour, see -- that ye may not by one another be consumed.
  • Gal 5:21 : 21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.
  • Gal 5:26 : 26 let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!
  • Gal 6:13 : 13 for neither do those circumcised themselves keep the law, but they wish you to be circumcised, that in your flesh they may glory.

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  • Jas 3:15-17
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    15 this wisdom is not descending from above, but earthly, physical, demon-like,

    16 for where zeal and rivalry `are', there is insurrection and every evil matter;

    17 and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

  • 13 Who `is' wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,

  • Jas 4:4-5
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    4 Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

    5 Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'

  • 26 let us not become vain-glorious -- one another provoking, one another envying!

  • 3 for yet ye are fleshly, for where `there is' among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not fleshly, and in the manner of men do walk?

  • 4 he is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and word-striving, out of which doth come envy, strife, evil-speakings, evil-surmisings,

  • 16 and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

  • 30 A healed heart `is' life to the flesh, And rottenness to the bones `is' envy.

  • 15 Certain, indeed, even through envy and contention, and certain also through good-will, do preach the Christ;

  • 3 nothing in rivalry or vain-glory, but in humility of mind one another counting more excellent than yourselves --

  • 4 Fury `is' fierce, and anger `is' overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy?

  • 19 A false witness `who' doth breathe out lies -- And one sending forth contentions between brethren.

  • 9 Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

  • 10 A vain man through pride causeth debate, And with the counselled `is' wisdom.

  • 17 Whoso uttereth faithfulness declareth righteousness, And a false witness -- deceit.

  • Ps 15:2-3
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    2 He who is walking uprightly, And working righteousness, And speaking truth in his heart.

    3 He hath not slandered by his tongue, He hath not done to his friend evil; And reproach he hath not lifted up Against his neighbour.

  • 1 Be not envious of evil men, And desire not to be with them.

  • 3 for if any one doth think `himself' to be something -- being nothing -- himself he doth deceive;

  • 5 and if any of you do lack wisdom, let him ask from God, who is giving to all liberally, and not reproaching, and it shall be given to him;

  • 3 for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;

  • 1 Having put aside, then, all evil, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envyings, and all evil speakings,

  • 9 murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

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    18 My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

    19 and in this we know that of the truth we are, and before Him we shall assure our hearts,

  • Jas 4:1-2
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    1 Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

    2 ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

  • 4 ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges.

  • 10 out of the same mouth doth come forth blessing and cursing; it doth not need, my brethren, these things so to happen;

  • Prov 3:30-31
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    30 Strive not with a man without cause, If he have not done thee evil.

    31 Be not envious of a man of violence, Nor fix thou on any of his ways.

  • 8 if we may say -- `we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

  • 20 Deceit `is' in the heart of those devising evil, And to those counselling peace `is' joy.

  • 18 Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

  • 26 If any one doth think to be religious among you, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, of this one vain `is' the religion;

  • 13 Keep thy tongue from evil, And thy lips from speaking deceit.

  • 6 rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

  • 44 how are ye able -- ye -- to believe, glory from one another receiving, and the glory that `is' from God alone ye seek not?

  • 22 and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

  • 14 Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.

  • 13 Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;

  • 2 For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

  • 17 and he who is boasting -- in the Lord let him boast;

  • 10 for `he who is willing to love life, and to see good days, let him guard his tongue from evil, and his lips -- not to speak guile;

  • 7 for if the truth of God in my falsehood did more abound to His glory, why yet am I also as a sinner judged?

  • 20 for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I -- I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

  • 16 because all that `is' in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,