Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
if ye have--as is the case (this is implied in the Greek indicative).
bitter-- Ephesians 4:31, "bitterness."
envying--rather, "emulation," or literally, "zeal": kindly, generous emulation, or zeal, is not condemned, but that which is "bitter" [BENGEL].
strife--rather, "rivalry."
in your hearts--from which flow your words and deeds, as from a fountain.
glory not, and lie not against the truth--To boast of your wisdom is virtually a lying against the truth (the gospel), while your lives belie your glorying. James 3:15; James 1:18, "The word of truth." Romans 2:17, Romans 2:23, speaks similarly of the same contentious Jewish Christians.
Other commentary entries containing this verse:
James 1:19
James 3:15
James 4:5
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