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

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

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

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

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

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

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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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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.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, 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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