James Chapter 3 verse 13 Holy Bible
Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.
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Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.
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Who [is] wise and understanding among you; let him shew out of a good conversation his works in meekness of wisdom;
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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.
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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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Who `is' wise and intelligent among you? let him shew out of the good behaviour his works in meekness of wisdom,
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerses 13-18. - WARNING AGAINST JEALOUSY AND FACTION. Ver. 13 contains the positive exhortation to meekness; ver. 14 the negative warning against jealousy and party spirit; and then the following verses place side by side the portraits of the earthly and the heavenly wisdom. Verse 13. - Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? (τίς σοφός καὶ ἐπιστήμων ἐν ὑμῖν;); better, who is wise and understanding among you? 'Απιστήμων is found here only in the New Testament. In the LXX. it is joined with σοφὸς (as here) in Deuteronomy 1:13; Deuteronomy 4:6. "The ἐπιστήμων is one who understands and knows: the σοφὸς is one who carries out his knowledge into his life" (Dr. Farrar, who aptly quotes Tennyson's line, "Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers"). Out of a good conversation (ἐκ τῆς καλῆς ἀναστροφῆς); better, as R.V., by his good life. "Conversation" is unfortunate, because of its modern meaning. Meekness (πραύτης); cf. James 1:21.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(13) Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge?--Who is wise, i.e., in the wisdom of God, and learned in that of man? The latter state is of knowledge natural or acquired, the former is Sophia, the highest heavenly wisdom, "the breath of the power of God--the brightness of the everlasting light--more beautiful than the sun, and above all the order of the stars" (Wisdom Of Solomon 7:25-29). Just as the devils hold with man the lower kinds of faith, that is belief merely (James 2:19), so do they share in his earthly knowledge. The self-same term as that describing it above is used by the evil spirit who answered the presumptuous sons of Sceva, "Paul I know," while a different one altogether referred to the Lord Jesus (Acts 19:15)."Where shall Wisdom be found,And where is the place of Understanding?"was the question of Job (Job 28:12). And the LXX, version marks the parallelism in the same Greek words as those used by St. James to distinguish between the two ideas. . . .
