James 3:14
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14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant and lie about the truth.
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James 3:16
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16 For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there will also be disorder and wickedness of every kind.(A)
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1 Corinthians 13:4
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4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant(A)
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Philippians 2:3
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3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or empty conceit, but in humility regard others as better than yourselves.(A)
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1 Corinthians 3:3
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3 for you are still fleshly. For as long as there is jealousy and quarreling[a] among you, are you not fleshly and behaving according to human inclinations?(A)
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Romans 13:13
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13 let us walk decently as in the day, not in reveling and drunkenness, not in illicit sex and licentiousness, not in quarreling and jealousy.(A)
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2 Corinthians 12:20
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20 For I fear that when I come I may find you not as I wish and that you may find me not as you wish; I fear that there may perhaps be quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder.(A)
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1 Peter 2:1-2
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The Living Stone and a Chosen People
2 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice and all guile, insincerity, envy, and all slander.(A) 2 Like newborn infants, long for the pure, spiritual milk, so that by it you may grow into salvation(B)—
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Philippians 1:15
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15 Some proclaim Christ from envy and rivalry but others from goodwill.
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James 5:19
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19 My brothers and sisters, if anyone among you wanders from the truth[a] and is brought back by another,
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- 5.19 Other ancient authorities read from the way of truth
Acts 5:17
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The Apostles Are Persecuted
17 Then the high priest took action; he and all who were with him (that is, the sect of the Sadducees), being filled with jealousy,
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Titus 3:3
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3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.(A)
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1 Timothy 6:4
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4 is conceited, understanding nothing, and has a morbid craving for controversy and for disputes about words. From these come envy, dissension, slander, base suspicions,(A)
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1 Corinthians 5:2
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2 And you are arrogant! Should you not rather have mourned, so that he who has done this would have been removed from among you?
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Romans 2:23-29
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23 You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God by your transgression of the law? 24 For, as it is written, “The name of God is blasphemed[a] among the gentiles because of you.”(A)
25 Circumcision indeed is of value if you obey the law, but if you are a transgressor of the law your circumcision has become uncircumcision.(B) 26 So, if the uncircumcised keep the requirements of the law, will not their uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision? 27 Then the physically uncircumcised person who keeps the law will judge you who, though having the written code and circumcision, are a transgressor of the law. 28 For a person is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision something external and physical.(C) 29 Rather, a person is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is a matter of the heart, by the Spirit, not the written code. Such a person receives praise not from humans but from God.(D)
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Romans 2:8
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8 while for those who are self-seeking and who obey not the truth but injustice, there will be wrath and fury.(A)
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Proverbs 27:4
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4 Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming,
but who is able to stand before jealousy?
Proverbs 14:30
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30 A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh,
but jealousy makes the bones rot.(A)
2 Kings 10:31
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31 But Jehu was not careful to follow the law of the Lord the God of Israel with all his heart; he did not turn from the sins of Jeroboam that he caused Israel to commit.(A)
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James 4:1-5
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Friendship with the World
4 Those conflicts and disputes among you, where do they come from? Do they not come from your cravings that are at war within you? 2 You want something and do not have it, so you commit murder. And you covet[a] something and cannot obtain it, so you engage in disputes and conflicts. You do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, in order to spend what you get on your pleasures.(A) 4 Adulterers![b] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.(B) 5 Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the spirit that God caused to dwell[c] in us desire envy?(C)
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Galatians 6:13
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13 Even the circumcised do not themselves obey the law, but they want you to be circumcised so that they may boast about your flesh.
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Galatians 5:26
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26 Let us not become conceited, competing against one another, envying one another.
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Galatians 5:21
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21 envy,[a] drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I am warning you, as I warned you before: those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.(A)
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Galatians 5:15
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15 If, however, you bite and devour one another, take care that you are not consumed by one another.
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1 Corinthians 5:6
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6 Your boasting is not a good thing. Do you not know that a little yeast leavens all of the dough?(A)
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