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30 A peaceful heart leads to a healthy body;
    jealousy is like cancer in the bones.

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30 A heart at peace gives life to the body,
    but envy rots the bones.(A)

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22 A cheerful heart is good medicine,
    but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength.

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22 A cheerful heart is good medicine,
    but a crushed(A) spirit dries up the bones.(B)

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A worthy wife is a crown for her husband,
    but a disgraceful woman is like cancer in his bones.

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A wife of noble character(A) is her husband’s crown,
    but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.(B)

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Then you will have healing for your body
    and strength for your bones.

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This will bring health to your body(A)
    and nourishment to your bones.(B)

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Surely resentment destroys the fool,
    and jealousy kills the simple.

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Resentment(A) kills a fool,
    and envy slays the simple.(B)

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23 Guard your heart above all else,
    for it determines the course of your life.

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23 Above all else, guard(A) your heart,
    for everything you do flows from it.(B)

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29 Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.

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29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,(A)

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80 May I be blameless in keeping your decrees;
    then I will never be ashamed.

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80 May I wholeheartedly follow(A) your decrees,(B)
    that I may not be put to shame.(C)

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10 The wicked will see this and be infuriated.
    They will grind their teeth in anger;
    they will slink away, their hopes thwarted.

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10 The wicked will see(A) and be vexed,
    they will gnash their teeth(B) and waste away;(C)
    the longings of the wicked will come to nothing.(D)

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Do you think the Scriptures have no meaning? They say that God is passionate that the spirit he has placed within us should be faithful to him.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 4:5 Or They say that the spirit God has placed within us is filled with envy; or They say that the Holy Spirit, whom God has placed within us, opposes our envy.

Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us[a]?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. James 4:5 Or that the spirit he caused to dwell in us envies intensely; or that the Spirit he caused to dwell in us longs jealously

For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.

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For the Spirit God gave us does not make us timid,(A) but gives us power,(B) love and self-discipline.

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“These patriarchs were jealous of their brother Joseph, and they sold him to be a slave in Egypt. But God was with him

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“Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph,(A) they sold him as a slave into Egypt.(B) But God was with him(C)

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