American Standard Version (ASV):
But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.
King James Version (KJV):
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
American Standard Version (ASV):
This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.
King James Version (KJV):
This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt water yield sweet.
King James Version (KJV):
Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Who is wise and understanding among you? let him show by his good life his works in meekness of wisdom.
King James Version (KJV):
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 (ASV):
out of the same mouth cometh forth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
King James Version (KJV):
Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet [water] and bitter?
King James Version (KJV):
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet [water] and bitter?
American Standard Version (ASV):
But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] a restless evil, [it is] full of deadly poison.
King James Version (KJV):
But the tongue can no man tame; [it is] an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.
American Standard Version (ASV):
Therewith bless we the Lord and Father; and therewith curse we men, who are made after the likeness of God:
King James Version (KJV):
Therewith bless we God, even the Father; and therewith curse we men, which are made after the similitude of God.
American Standard Version (ASV):
And the tongue is a fire: the world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the wheel of nature, and is set on fire by hell.
King James Version (KJV):
And the tongue [is] a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.
American Standard Version (ASV):
For every kind of beasts and birds, of creeping things and things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed by mankind.
King James Version (KJV):
For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind: