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Is It Actually in the Bible?
Phrases people quote as Scripture. The real verse, or the honest answer that there is not one.
"Grudge not one against another, brethren" (James 5:9) sounds like a warning against holding a private grudge or resentment toward someone.
"Grudge" translates a Greek word for groaning or grumbling against someone, closer to "don't complain about each other" than to a private grudge.
James 5:9
James 5:9, in every translation this tool compares.
What is actually going on
The Greek stenazo means to sigh or groan, and by extension to grumble or find fault out of impatience. James's concern is fretful, out-loud complaining among believers (blaming each other for hardships), not the modern sense of a long-held, silent resentment.
"Grudge" in 1611 leaned toward this vocal, murmuring complaint, which is why older commentaries gloss it as "grumbling" rather than "bearing ill will."
