Proverbs 27:4

All About Life

³ A stone is heavy, and the sand is heavy, And the anger of a fool Is heavier than they both. ⁴ Fury is fierce, and anger is overflowing, And who standeth before jealousy? ⁵ Better is open reproof than hidden love.

Able to Stand

Sin

Proverbs 6:34

For jealousy is the fury of a man, And he doth not spare in a day of vengeance.

1 John 3:12

not as Cain -- of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

Genesis 26:14

and he hath possession of a flock, and possession of a herd, and an abundant service; and the Philistines envy him,

Genesis 37:11

and his brethren are zealous against him, and his father hath watched the matter.

Job 5:2

For provocation slayeth the perverse, And envy putteth to death the simple,

Proverbs 14:30

A healed heart is life to the flesh, And rottenness to the bones is envy.

Song of Songs 8:6

Set me as a seal on thy heart, as a seal on thine arm, For strong as death is love, Sharp as Sheol is jealousy, Its burnings are burnings of fire, a flame of Jah!

Matthew 27:18

for he had known that because of envy they had delivered him up.

Acts 5:17

And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him -- being the sect of the Sadducees -- were filled with zeal,

Acts 7:9

and the patriarchs, having been moved with jealousy, sold Joseph to Egypt, and God was with him,

Acts 17:5

And the unbelieving Jews, having been moved with envy, and having taken to them of the loungers certain evil men, and having made a crowd, were setting the city in an uproar; having assailed also the house of Jason, they were seeking them to bring them to the populace,

Romans 1:29

having been filled with all unrighteousness, whoredom, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,

James 1:19-21

So then, my brethren beloved, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger,

James 3:14-16

and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

James 4:5-6

Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, 'To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,'