Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Envy » Forbidden
Love endures with patience and serenity, love is kind and thoughtful, and is not jealous or envious; love does not brag and is not proud or arrogant.
Verse Concepts
Let us conduct ourselves properly and honorably as in the [light of] day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and irresponsibility, not in quarreling and jealousy.
Verse Concepts
We must not become conceited, challenging or provoking one another, envying one another.
Verse Concepts
Do not envy a man of violence
And do not choose any of his ways.
A calm and peaceful and tranquil heart is life and health to the body,
But passion and envy are like rottenness to the bones.
Do not let your heart envy sinners [who live godless lives and have no hope of salvation],
But [continue to] live in the [reverent, worshipful] fear of the Lord day by day.
Nor desire to be with them;
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant, and [as a result] be in defiance of the truth.
Verse Concepts
Envy » What envy does
A calm and peaceful and tranquil heart is life and health to the body,
But passion and envy are like rottenness to the bones.
Call now -- "is there any who will answer you? And to which of the holy [angels] will you turn? For vexation and rage kill the foolish man; jealousy and indignation slay the simple.
Envy » Hurtful to the envious
“For anger slays the foolish man,
And jealousy kills the simple (naive).
A calm and peaceful and tranquil heart is life and health to the body,
But passion and envy are like rottenness to the bones.
Flesh » The life of the flesh
For the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I have given it to you on the altar to make atonement for your souls; for it is the blood that makes atonement, by reason of the life [which it represents].’
Verse Concepts
But you shall not eat meat along with its life, that is, its blood.
Verse Concepts
A calm and peaceful and tranquil heart is life and health to the body,
But passion and envy are like rottenness to the bones.
Heart » Sound hearts
A calm and peaceful and tranquil heart is life and health to the body,
But passion and envy are like rottenness to the bones.