James 3:13

James chapter 3 · verse 13 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

World English Bible · 2000

Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

King James Version · 1611

Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

American Standard Version · 1901

Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.

v.12can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? neither can salt water yield sweet.

v.13This passage

v.14But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

1 Peter 2:9
But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
Psalms 107:43
Whoso is wise will give heed to these things; And they will consider the lovingkindnesses of Jehovah.
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Zephaniah 2:3
Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Jehovah’s anger.
Isaiah 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me; because Jehovah hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Isaiah 29:19
The meek also shall increase their joy in Jehovah, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.