Jealousness

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask. — read the full passage →

“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. — read the full passage →

Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you. — read the full passage →

For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry.” — read the full passage →

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations. — read the full passage →

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, — read the full passage →

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; — read the full passage →

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. — read the full passage →

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? — read the full passage →

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. — read the full passage →

you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand, — read the full passage →

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ — read the full passage →

They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?” — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” — read the full passage →

“For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. — read the full passage →