James 3:16

For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

In the preceding verse, James described much so-called "wisdom" in an advancing series as:

Pertaining to earth, not to the world above; to mere nature, not to the spirit; and to the hostile spirits of evil, and not to the living God. 16 follows as proof of what has just been said.[38]

In the inherent wickedness of factious and partisan defenders of human systems of religion, it appears here that honesty, fairness and truth will be conspicuously missing from their presentations.