Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
13 Are there any of you who are wise and understanding? You are to prove it by your good life, by your good deeds performed with humility and wisdom.
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Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
14 But if in your heart you are jealous, bitter, and selfish, don't sin against the truth by boasting of your wisdom.
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But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.
15 Such wisdom does not come down from heaven; it belongs to the world, it is unspiritual and demonic.
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Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
16 Where there is jealousy and selfishness, there is also disorder and every kind of evil.
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For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
17 But the wisdom from above is pure first of all; it is also peaceful, gentle, and friendly; it is full of compassion and produces a harvest of good deeds; it is free from prejudice and hypocrisy.
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But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.
18 And goodness is the harvest that is produced from the seeds the peacemakers plant in peace.
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Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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