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James 3:14Jas.3.14

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

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Greek original

Translations

Louis Segond 1910

Mais si vous avez dans votre coeur un zèle amer et un esprit de dispute, ne vous glorifiez pas et ne mentez pas contre la vérité.

KJV

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

Patristic reading

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  • Prosper of Aquitaine

    The Epistles and Commentaries of Prosper of Aquitaine

    , then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy" (James 3:14). Therefore, whoever studies and clings to these virtues is enlightened not by their own wisdom but by the wisdom from above: "For the Lord gives wisdom; from His mouth…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 100 (Migne)

    stolus Jacobus: Si zelum amarum habetis, et contentiones sunt in cordibus vestris, nolite gloriari (Jac. III, 14) , [Col. 0411C] et caetera, quae ad sequentibus [ F., in sequentibus] terribili censura leguntur de his qui zelum habent amarum. Zelus siquidem {172} bonus [ Edit.,…
  • Various

    Patrologia Latina Vol. 101 (Migne)

    um est sapientia, primum quidem pudica est, deinde pacifica, modesta, suasibilis, bonis consentiens (Jac. III, 14-17) . Videtisne quod vestra sapientia non est pacifica, non est suasibilis, non bonis consentiens. Et ideo omnino intelligite eam a Deo non esse datam, sed quadam ast…

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