Proverbs 27:4

All About Life

³ A stone is heavy and sand is weighty, but vexation by a fool is more burdensome than the two of them. ⁴ Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy? ⁵ Better is open rebuke than hidden love.

Able to Stand

Sin

Proverbs 6:34

for jealousy kindles a husband's rage, and he will not show mercy when he takes revenge.

1 John 3:12

not like Cain who was of the evil one and brutally murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his deeds were evil, but his brother's were righteous.

Genesis 26:14

He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.

Genesis 37:11

His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what Joseph said.

Job 5:2

For wrath kills the foolish person, and anger slays the silly one.

Proverbs 14:30

A tranquil spirit revives the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.

Song of Songs 8:6

The Beloved to Her Lover: Set me like a cylinder seal over your heart, like a signet on your arm. For love is as strong as death, passion is as unrelenting as Sheol. Its flames burst forth, it is a blazing flame.

Matthew 27:18

(For he knew that they had handed him over because of envy.)

Acts 5:17

Now the high priest rose up, and all those with him (that is, the religious party of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy.

Acts 7:9

The patriarchs, because they were jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt. But God was with him,

Acts 17:5

But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason's house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.

Romans 1:29

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

James 1:19-21

Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters! Let every person be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger.

James 3:14-16

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

James 4:5-6

Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says, "The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning"?