This wisdom does not descend from above, but is earthly, sensual, demonic

The works of the devil are every kind of sin: envy, lying, cursing, hatred, hostility, remembrance of wrongs, slander, anger, rage, pride, vainglory, lack of mercy, covetousness, thievery, unrighteousness, evil lust, quarrelsomeness, dissatisfaction, irritability, ridicule, making oaths, forgetfulness of God, lack of human mercy, and every other evil … But to the sinner God has said: Why do you declare My statutes and take up My covenant in your mouth? You have hated chastisement and have cast out My works behind you (Ps. 49:16-17) … Because Adam believed the devil who had told him his lies, he fell away from the truth. - St. Symeon the New Theologian, The Sin of Adam 

If you have bitter envying and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth

Passion is an unnatural movement of the soul, due either to senseless love or irrational hatred of something sensory or … from a senseless love of good, or women, or possessions, or transitory glory, or something else sensory. - St. Maximos the Confessor, Second Century on Love 

Those who store grievances and rancor in themselves are like people who draw water and pour it into a cask full of holes. - Evagrios the Solitary, On Prayer, Philokalia Vol. 1 

The Bible and the Holy Fathers
Epistle: Jas. 3:11-4:6
32nd Week after Pentecost, Wednesday