Bitter jealousy (ζηλον πικρον). Ζηλος occurs in N.T. in good sense (John 2:17) and bad sense (Acts 5:17). …

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts. If that is your characteristic. There is reference here to a fierce and unholy z…

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts.—Rather, it should be, bitter zeal and party-spirit. “A…

The specific form of “if” used here suggests that some of James’s readers were harboring “bitter envy and selfish ambition” in their hearts. “Selfi…

But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts ,
&c.] Though these may not be expressed by words, or actio…

These verses show the difference between men's pretending to be wise, and their being really so. He who thinks well, or he who talks well, is not w…