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
Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it are the outgoings of life.
Psalm 119:80
My heart is perfect in Thy statutes, So that I am not ashamed.
2 Timothy 1:7
for God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind;
Envy
Job 5:2
For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,
Psalm 112:10
The wicked seeth, and hath been angry, His teeth he gnasheth, and hath melted, The desire of the wicked doth perish!
Acts 7:9
and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,
Romans 1:29
having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
James 4:5
Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'
Rottenness
Proverbs 3:8
Healing it is to thy navel, And moistening to thy bones.
Proverbs 12:4
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones is one causing shame.
Proverbs 17:22
A rejoicing heart doth good to the body, And a smitten spirit drieth the bone.