Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Desires » What not to desire
Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them. For their heart studies destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.
When you sit to eat with a ruler, consider diligently what is before you: And put a knife to your throat, if you are a man given to appetite. Be not desirous of his delicacies: for they are deceitful food. read more.
Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom. Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. Eat not the bread of him that is stingy, neither desire you his delicacies: For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you. The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and waste your sweet words.
Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom. Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. Eat not the bread of him that is stingy, neither desire you his delicacies: For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: Eat and drink, says he to you; but his heart is not with you. The morsel which you have eaten shall you vomit up, and waste your sweet words.
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Envy » Forbidden
[A Psalm of David.] Fret not yourself because of evildoers, neither be you envious of the workers of iniquity.
Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Let not your heart envy sinners: but be in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Be not envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not, and lie not against the truth.
Envy » Not envying
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in debauchery and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Therefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Vainglory » Not desiring vainglory
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.