14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-18)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 between men’s pretending to be wise and their being really so, and between the wisdom which is from beneath (from earth or hell) and that which is from above. I. We have some account of true wisdom, with t…
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