Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Rottenness
Bible References
Sound
Proverbs 4:23
Guard thy heart with all watching, for from it the goings forth of life.
Psalm 119:80
My heart shall be blameless in thy laws, so that I shall not be ashamed.
2 Timothy 1:7
For God gave not to us the spirit of timidity; but of power, and love, and of soundness of mind.
Envy
Job 5:2
For to the foolish, and anger will slay, and the simple will jealousy kill.
Psalm 112:10
The unjust one shall see and be angry; shall gnash his teeth and he melted away: the desire of the unjust shall perish.
Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs having been jealous, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Romans 1:29
Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,
James 4:5
Or think ye that the writing says vainly, That the spirit longs for envy, which dwelt in us?
Rottenness
Proverbs 3:8
It shall be healing to thy sinews, and moistening to thy bones.
Proverbs 12:4
A woman of strength is a crown to her husband: and she causing shame, as rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 17:22
A joyful heart shall make good healing: and a dejected spirit shall dry up the bones.