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• Genesis 4:4

  Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering,

• Genesis 4:5

  but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

• Genesis 4:6

  Yahweh said to Cain, “Why are you angry? Why has the expression of your face fallen?

• Genesis 4:7

  If you do well, won’t it be lifted up? If you don’t do well, sin crouches at the door. Its desire is for you, but you are to rule over it.”

• Genesis 4:8

  Cain said to Abel, his brother, “Let’s go into the field.” While they were in the field, Cain rose up against Abel, his brother, and killed him.

• Genesis 16:5

  Sarai said to Abram, “This wrong is your fault. I gave my servant into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. Yahweh judge between me and you.”

• Genesis 16:6

  But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt harshly with her, and she fled from her face.

• Genesis 21:9

  Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne to Abraham, mocking.

• Genesis 21:10

  Therefore she said to Abraham, “Cast out this servant and her son! For the son of this servant will not be heir with my son, Isaac.”

• Genesis 26:14

  He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

• Genesis 30:1

  When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

• Genesis 30:15

  She said to her, “Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son’s mandrakes, also?” Rachel said, “Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son’s mandrakes.”

• Genesis 31:1

  He heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. From that which was our father’s, has he gotten all this wealth.”

• Genesis 37:4

  His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

• Genesis 37:5

  Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brothers, and they hated him all the more.

• Genesis 37:6

  He said to them, “Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:

• Genesis 37:7

  for behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and behold, my sheaf arose and also stood upright; and behold, your sheaves came around, and bowed down to my sheaf.”

• Genesis 37:8

  His brothers said to him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

• Genesis 37:9

  He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, “Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.”

• Genesis 37:10

  He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, “What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?”

• Genesis 37:11

  His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

• Genesis 37:19

  They said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.

• Genesis 37:20

  Come now therefore, and let’s kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, ‘An evil animal has devoured him.’ We will see what will become of his dreams.”

• Numbers 11:28

  Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”

• Numbers 11:29

  Moses 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!”

• Numbers 11:30

  Moses went into the camp, he and the elders of Israel.

• Numbers 12:1

  Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married; for he had married a Cushite woman.

• Numbers 12:2

  They said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And Yahweh heard it.

• Numbers 12:3

  Now the man Moses was very humble, more than all the men who were on the surface of the earth.

• Numbers 12:4

  Yahweh spoke suddenly to Moses, to Aaron, and to Miriam, “You three come out to the Tent of Meeting!” The three of them came out.

• Numbers 12:5

  Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forward.

• Numbers 12:6

  He said, “Now hear my words. If there is a prophet among you, I, Yahweh, will make myself known to him in a vision. I will speak with him in a dream.

• Numbers 12:7

  My servant Moses is not so. He is faithful in all my house.

• Numbers 12:8

  With him, I will speak mouth to mouth, even plainly, and not in riddles; and he shall see Yahweh’s form. Why then were you not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?”

• Numbers 12:9

  Yahweh’s anger burned against them; and he departed.

• Numbers 12:10

  The cloud departed from over the Tent; and behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow. Aaron looked at Miriam, and behold, she was leprous.

• Numbers 16:3

  They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”

• 1 Samuel 18:8

  Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed only thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”

• 1 Samuel 18:9

  Saul watched David from that day and forward.

• 1 Samuel 18:29

  Saul was even more afraid of David; and Saul was David’s enemy continually.

• 1 Samuel 20:31

  For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you will not be established, nor will your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die!”

• Esther 5:13

  Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

• Job 5:2

  For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

• Job 5:3

  I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

• Psalms 37:1

  By David. Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

• Psalms 37:7

  Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

• Psalms 49:16

  Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

• Psalms 73:3

  For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

• Psalms 73:17

  Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

• Psalms 73:18

  Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

• Psalms 73:19

  How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

• Psalms 73:20

  As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

• Psalms 106:16

  They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.

• Psalms 106:17

  The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.

• Psalms 106:18

  A fire was kindled in their company. The flame burned up the wicked.

• Psalms 112:10

  The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

• Proverbs 3:31

  Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

• Proverbs 14:30

  The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

• Proverbs 23:17

  Don’t let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

• Proverbs 24:1

  Don’t be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them:

• Proverbs 24:19

  Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers; neither be envious of the wicked:

• Proverbs 27:4

  Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

• Ecclesiastes 4:4

  Then 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.

• Ecclesiastes 8:6

  For there is a time and procedure for every purpose, although the misery of man is heavy on him.

• Isaiah 26:11

  Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

• Ezekiel 35:11

  therefore, as I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge you.

• Daniel 6:4

  Then the presidents and the satraps sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion nor fault, because he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

• Matthew 27:18

  For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

• Mark 15:10

  For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.

• John 11:47

  The chief priests therefore and the Pharisees gathered a council, and said, “What are we doing? For this man does many signs.

• Acts 7:9

  “The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

• Acts 13:45

  But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

• Acts 17:5

  But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

• Romans 1:29

  being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

• Romans 13:13

  Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

• 1 Corinthians 3:3

  for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

• 1 Corinthians 13:4

  Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

• 2 Corinthians 12:20

  For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

• Galatians 5:19

  Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

• Galatians 5:20

  idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,

• Galatians 5:21

  envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

• Galatians 5:26

  Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.

• 1 Timothy 6:4

  he is conceited, knowing nothing, but obsessed with arguments, disputes, and word battles, from which come envy, strife, insulting, evil suspicions,

• 1 Timothy 6:5

  constant friction of people of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth, who suppose that godliness is a means of gain. Withdraw yourself from such.

• Titus 3:3

  For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

• James 3:14

  But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

• James 3:16

  For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

• James 4:5

  Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

• James 5:9

  Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

• 1 Peter 2:1

  Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,