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30 A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh,
    but jealousy makes the bones rot.(A)

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

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It will be a healing for your flesh
    and a refreshment for your body.(A)

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Surely vexation kills the fool,
    and jealousy slays the simple.(A)

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A good wife is the crown of her husband,
    but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.(A)

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23 Keep your heart with all vigilance,
    for from it flow the springs of life.(A)

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29 They were filled with every kind of injustice, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips,

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10 The wicked see it and are angry;
    they gnash their teeth and melt away;
    the desire of the wicked comes to nothing.(A)

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Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the spirit that God caused to dwell[a] in us desire envy?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 4.5 Other ancient authorities read the spirit that dwells

80 May my heart be blameless in your statutes,
    so that I may not be put to shame.

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for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.(A)

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“The patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him(A)

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