James 3:14
Modern Translations
New International Version
But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.

New Living Translation
But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don’t cover up the truth with boasting and lying.

English Standard Version
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.

Berean Study Bible
But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.

New American Standard Bible
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

NASB 1995
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

NASB 1977
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

Amplified Bible
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant, and [as a result] be in defiance of the truth.

Christian Standard Bible
But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and deny the truth.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't brag and deny the truth.

Contemporary English Version
But if your heart is full of bitter jealousy and selfishness, don't brag or lie to cover up the truth.

Good News Translation
But if in your heart you are jealous, bitter, and selfish, don't sin against the truth by boasting of your wisdom.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
But if you are bitterly jealous and filled with self-centered ambition, don't brag. Don't say that you are wise when it isn't true.

International Standard Version
But if you have bitter jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, stop boasting and slandering the truth.

NET Bible
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.
Classic Translations
King James Bible
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

New King James Version
But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

King James 2000 Bible
But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not, and lie not against the truth.

New Heart English Bible
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.

World English Bible
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.

American King James Version
But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

American Standard Version
But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

A Faithful Version
But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast and lie against the Truth.

Darby Bible Translation
but if ye have bitter emulation and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.

English Revised Version
But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

Webster's Bible Translation
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
But if ye haue bitter enuying and strife in your hearts, reioyce not, neither be liars against the trueth.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
But yf ye haue bitter enuiyng & strife in your hearte, glorie not, neither be lyers agaynst the trueth.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
But yf ye haue bitter enuyenge and stryfe in yor hertes, reioyce not: nether be lyars agaynst the trueth.

Tyndale Bible of 1526
But Yf ye have bitter envyinge and stryfe in youre hertes reioyce not: nether be lyars agaynst the trueth.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
yet, if you have bitter zeal, and rivalry in your heart, do not glory, nor lie against the truth;

Berean Literal Bible
But if you have bitter jealousy and self-interest in your heart, do not boast of it and lie against the truth.

Young's Literal Translation
and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

Smith's Literal Translation
And if ye have bitter envy and intrigue in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth.

Literal Emphasis Translation
However if you have bitter jealousy and self-seeking in your heart, boast not of it and lie against the truth.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
But if you have bitter zeal, and there be contentions in your hearts; glory not, and be not liars against the truth.

Catholic Public Domain Version
But if you hold a bitter zeal, and if there is contention in your hearts, then do not boast and do not be liars against the truth.

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
But if you have bitter envy or contention in your hearts, do not be puffed up against the truth and lie.

Lamsa Bible
But if you have bitter envying among you, or strife in your hearts, do not boast and do not lie against the truth.

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Godbey New Testament
But if you have bitter envy and strife in your heart, do not boast, and lie against the truth.

Haweis New Testament
But if ye have bitter envy and contention in your heart, boast not, and lie not against the truth.

Mace New Testament
but if envy and contention imbitter your minds, don't think your false pretences can stand against the truth:

Weymouth New Testament
But if in your hearts you have bitter feelings of envy and rivalry, do not speak boastfully and falsely, in defiance of the truth.

Worrell New Testament
But, if ye have bitter jealousy and contention in your heart, do not boast and lie against the truth.

Worsley New Testament
but if ye have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth;
















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