But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
for you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?
For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.
Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.
So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.
My brothers, if anyone among you wanders from the truth and someone brings him back,
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,
And you are arrogant! Ought you not rather to mourn? Let him who has done this be removed from among you.
You who boast in the law dishonor God by breaking the law. For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you.” For circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you break the law, your circumcision becomes uncircumcision. So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? Then he who is physically uncircumcised but keeps the law will condemn you who have the written code and circumcision but break the law.
but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury.
But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy
Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.
But Jehu was not careful to walk in the law of the Lord, the God of Israel, with all his heart. He did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam, which he made Israel to sin.
What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. You adulterous people! Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.
envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another.
Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?
For who sees anything different in you? What do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it? Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you!
But if you call yourself a Jew and rely on the law and boast in God
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
“I myself was convinced that I ought to do many things in opposing the name of Jesus of Nazareth.
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him.
They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, the hour is coming when whoever kills you will think he is offering service to God.
For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.
Why do you make me see iniquity, and why do you idly look at wrong? Destruction and violence are before me; strife and contention arise.
The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and those who harass Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
And he said, “Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord.” So he had him ride in his chariot.
And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or I shall die!” Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”
“And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him
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