But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
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Gill's Exposition
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts,.... Though these may not be expressed by words, or actions: envy at the happiness of others, whether at the external blessings of Providence,…
Barnes' Notes
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts - If that is your characteristic. There is reference here to a fierce and unholy zeal against each other; a spirit of ambition and contention.…
Adam Clarke
If ye have bitter envying and strife - If ye be under the influence of an unkind, fierce, and contemptuous spirit, even while attempting or pretending to defend true religion, do not boast either of…
As the sins before condemned arise from an affectation of being thought more wise than others, and being endued with more knowledge than they, so the apostle in these verses shows the difference…
Cambridge Bible
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts Better, envy and rivalry. The latter substantive, formed from a word which means a "day-labourer", expresses primarily the temper of competition…
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