Jonah 4:1

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Jonah 4:1

But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.

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Then God said to Jonah, “Do you have a good reason to be angry about [the loss of] the plant?” And he said, “I have a [very] good reason to be angry, angry enough to die!”

Am I not lawfully permitted to do what I choose with what is mine? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?’

Now when [Simon] the Pharisee who had invited Him saw this, he said to himself, “If this Man were a prophet He would know who and what sort of woman this is who is touching Him, that she is a [notorious] sinner [an outcast, devoted to sin].”

But the elder brother became angry and deeply resentful and was not willing to go in; and his father came out and began pleading with him.

And [at the same time] Paul and Barnabas spoke out boldly and confidently, saying, “It was necessary that God’s message [of salvation through faith in Christ] be spoken to you [Jews] first. Since you repudiate it and judge yourselves unworthy of eternal life, now we turn to the Gentiles.

Or do you think that the Scripture says to no purpose that the [human] spirit which He has made to dwell in us lusts with envy?