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The Book of James, Chapter 3, Verse 13

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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.
King James Version
But if ye 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.
New English Translation
Come now, you who say,“Today or tomorrow we will go into this or that town and spend a year there and do business and make a profit.”
World English Bible
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show by his good conduct that his deeds are done in gentleness of wisdom.
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This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.
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For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.
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But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, [and] easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
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And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
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From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?
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Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
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Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.
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Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.
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Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
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But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.