James 4:5

Scripture is not empty when it speaks of God's jealous yearning for his people. God passionately desires our undivided loyalty.

Cross-references · 22

• 2 Cor 6:16And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
• 1 Cor 6:19What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?
• Num 11:29And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God that all the LORD’s people were prophets, and that the LORD would put his spirit upon them!
• Titus 3:3For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Ps 37:1Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
• Gen 8:21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
• Gen 30:1And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
• Gen 37:11And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
• John 10:35If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken;
• Gen 6:5And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
• Gen 26:14For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
• Ps 106:16They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the LORD.
• Eccl 4:4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
• Gen 4:5–6But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
• Prov 21:10The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.
• Gal 3:8And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.
• Acts 7:9And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
• Rom 1:29Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
• Isa 11:13The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
• Rom 9:17For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.
• John 19:37And again another scripture saith, They shall look on him whom they pierced.
• John 7:42Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?

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