James 3:14
New Testament • 8 words with Strong's data
"But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth."
Word-by-Word Analysis
מַר
mar
bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
ζῆλος
zēlos
properly, heat, i.e. (figuratively) "zeal" (in a favorable sense, ardor; in an unfavorable one, jealousy, as of a husband (figuratively, of God), or a...
לֵבָב
lêbâb
the heart (as the most interior organ);
כָּבוֹד
kâbôwd
properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
שָׁכַב
shâkab
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
קִרְאָה
qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
אֶמֶת
ʼemeth
stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness
Key Terms in This Verse
ζῆλος zēlos
properly, heat, i.e. (figuratively) "zeal" (in a favorable sense, ardor; in an unfavorable one, jealousy, as of a husband (figuratively, of God), or an enemy, malice)
Study G2205 →מַר mar
bitter (literally or figuratively); also (as noun) bitterness, or (adverbially) bitterly
Study H4751 →שָׁכַב shâkab
to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)
Study H7901 →כָּבוֹד kâbôwd
properly, weight, but only figuratively in a good sense, splendor or copiousness
Study H3519 →קִרְאָה qirʼâh
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
Study H7125 →Cross References
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
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...
Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
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.
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
But unto them that are contentious, and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, indignation and wrath,
And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you.
Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;
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,
Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,
But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
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.
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.
I verily thought with myself, that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
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.
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
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