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Jealousy And Envy
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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 →
The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →
doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;
For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
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?
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.
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 →
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.
Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
He who doesn’t love doesn’t know God, for God is love.
For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.
“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,
You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”
Don’t let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all the day long.
And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.
“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”
For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.
For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.
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.
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 →
Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →
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 →
His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →
for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
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 →
Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
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.
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.
Don’t be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them:
Don’t be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: — read the full passage →
he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,
“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: — read the full passage →
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.
Don’t let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all the day long. — read the full passage →
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →
His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.
For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.
An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: “There is no fear of God before his eyes.” — read the full passage →
They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — read the full passage →
For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, — read the full passage →
So the angel who talked with me said to me, “Proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says Yahweh of Armies: “I am jealous for Jerusalem and for Zion with a great jealousy.
Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected Yahweh’s word, he has also rejected you from being king.”
you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.
Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths. — read the full passage →
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, — read the full passage →
For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Now faith is assurance of things hoped for, proof of things not seen.
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
Don’t speak against one another, brothers. He who speaks against a brother and judges his brother, speaks against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law, but a judge.
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.
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.
but God chose the foolish things of the world that he might put to shame those who are wise. God chose the weak things of the world, that he might put to shame the things that are strong; — read the full passage →
Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering, — read the full passage →
Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”
Jacob lived in the land of his father’s travels, in the land of Canaan. — read the full passage →
I will lift up my eyes to the hills. Where does my help come from?
But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.
Thus says Yahweh of Armies: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.”
My son, don’t forget my teaching; but let your heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →
He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,
We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.
Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.
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 →
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;
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their engraved images.
He said to them, “Because of your unbelief. For most certainly I tell you, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you will tell this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you.
Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.
But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor. — read the full passage →
The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.
Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, — read the full passage →
Be subject therefore to God. But resist the devil, and he will flee from you. — read the full passage →
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy. — read the full passage →
Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?
Yahweh is my shepherd: I shall lack nothing. — read the full passage →
Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, — read the full passage →
So will I cause my wrath toward you to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from you, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. — read the full passage →
Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →
For without cause they have hidden their net in a pit for me. Without cause they have dug a pit for my soul. — read the full passage →
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