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 6:16What agreement has a temple of God with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”
• 1 Cor 6:19Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,
• Num 11:29Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”
• Titus 3:3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
• Ps 37:1By David. Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.
• Gen 8:21Yahweh smelled the pleasant aroma. Yahweh said in his heart, “I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake because the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth. I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.
• Gen 30:1When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”
• Gen 37:11His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
• John 10:35If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken),
• Gen 6:5Yahweh saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of man’s heart was continually only evil.
• Gen 26:14He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.
• Ps 106:16They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.
• Eccl 4:4Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
• Gen 4:5–6but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.
• Prov 21:10The soul of the wicked desires evil; his neighbor finds no mercy in his eyes.
• Gal 3:8The Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the Good News beforehand to Abraham, saying, “In you all the nations will be blessed.”
• Acts 7:9“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,
• Rom 1:29being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
• Isa 11:13The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.
• Rom 9:17For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, “For this very purpose I caused you to be raised up, that I might show in you my power, and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.”
• John 19:37Again another Scripture says, “They will look on him whom they pierced.”
• John 7:42Hasn’t the Scripture said that the Christ comes of the offspring of David, and from Bethlehem, the village where David was?”

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