envy
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30The well-being of the heart is life for the flesh. But envy is decay for the bones.
14Do not be willing to worship any strange god. The jealous Lord is his name. God is a rival.
16For wherever envy and contention is, there too is inconstancy and every depraved work.
17Let not your heart compete with sinners. But be in the fear of the Lord all day long.
4Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated.
19Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, 20the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions, 21envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
26Let us not become desirous of empty glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
1Therefore, set aside all malice and all deceitfulness, as well as falseness and envy and every detraction.
1Do not imitate evil men, nor desire to be among them.
3For, in times past, we ourselves were also unwise, unbelieving, erring, servants of various desires and pleasures, acting with malice and envy, being hateful and hating one another.
4Anger holds no mercy, nor does fury when it erupts. And who can bear the assault of one who has been provoked?
4Again, I was contemplating all the labors of men. And I took notice that their endeavors are open to the envy of their neighbor. And so, in this, too, there is emptiness and superfluous anxiety.
2Truly, anger condemns the foolish to death, and envy kills the petty.
20“But,” he said “the things which go out from a man, these pollute a man. 21For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness. 23All these evils proceed from within and pollute a man.”