Proverbs 14:30

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A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

Above all that must be guarded, keep thou thy heart, for, out of it, are the issues of life.

Let my heart be thorough in thy statutes, that I may not be ashamed.

For God hath not given us a spirit of cowardice, but of power, and love, and correction.

For, to the foolish man, death is caused by vexation, and, the simple one, is slain by jealousy.

The lawless one, shall see, and be indignant, his teeth, will he gnash and melt away, The craving of the lawless, shall vanish.

And, the patriarchs, being jealous of Joseph, gave him up into Egypt; and, God, was, with him,

Filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, baseness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil disposition,

Or think ye that, in vain, the scripture speaketh? Is it, for envying, that the spirit which hath taken an abode within us doth crave?

Healing, shall it be to thy body, and refreshing, to thy bones.

A virtuous woman, is the crown of her husband, but, a veritable decay in his bones, is she that causeth shame.

A joyful heart, worketh an excellent cure, - but, a stricken spirit, drieth up the bone.