jealous women

¹Then Rachel, discerning that she was infertile, envied her sister, and so she said to her husband, “Give me children, otherwise I will die.”

⁶Groom to Bride: Under the apple tree, I awakened you. There your mother was corrupted. There she who bore you was violated.

⁴Anger holds no mercy, nor does fury when it erupts. And who can bear the assault of one who has been provoked?

¹⁴But if you hold a bitter zeal, and if there is contention in your hearts, then do not boast and do not be liars against the truth. ¹⁵For this is not wisdom, descending from above, but rather it is earthly, beastly, and diabolical. ¹⁶For wherever envy and contention is, there too is inconstancy and every depraved work.

⁶And her rival afflicted her and vehemently distressed her, to a great extent, for she rebuked her that the Lord had closed her womb.

³⁰The well-being of the heart is life for the flesh. But envy is decay for the bones.

¹⁴if the spirit of jealousy stirs up the husband against his wife, who either has been polluted or is being assailed with a false suspicion,

³⁴For the jealousy and fury of the husband will not spare him on the day of vindication,

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.

³And since there is still envy and contention among you, are you not carnal, and are you not walking according to man?

²⁹This is the law for jealousy. If a woman has turned aside from her husband, and if she has been polluted, ³⁰and if the husband, being stirred up by the spirit of jealousy, has brought her before the sight of the Lord, and the priest has acted toward her according to all that has been written:

⁵Yet in truth, he did not look with favor on Cain and his gifts. And Cain was vehemently angry, and his countenance fell. ⁶And the Lord said to him: “Why are you angry? And why is your face fallen?

²For I am jealous toward you, with the jealousy of God. And I have espoused you to one husband, offering you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

⁴And he entered to her. But when she saw that she had conceived, she despised her mistress. ⁵And Sarai said to Abram: “You have acted unfairly against me. I gave my handmaid into your bosom, who, when she saw that she had conceived, held me in contempt. May the Lord judge between me and you.”