Psalm 37:1
New Living Translation
Psalm 37[a]
A psalm of David.
1 Don’t worry about the wicked
or envy those who do wrong.
Footnotes
- 37 This psalm is a Hebrew acrostic poem; each stanza begins with a successive letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Psalm 37:7
New Living Translation
7 Be still in the presence of the Lord,
and wait patiently for him to act.
Don’t worry about evil people who prosper
or fret about their wicked schemes.
Proverbs 23:17
New Living Translation
17 Don’t envy sinners,
but always continue to fear the Lord.
Proverbs 24:19
New Living Translation
19 Don’t fret because of evildoers;
don’t envy the wicked.
Proverbs 3:31
New Living Translation
31 Don’t envy violent people
or copy their ways.
Proverbs 24:1
New Living Translation
24 Don’t envy evil people
or desire their company.
Psalm 73:3
New Living Translation
3 For I envied the proud
when I saw them prosper despite their wickedness.
Galatians 5:21
New Living Translation
21 envy, drunkenness, wild parties, and other sins like these. Let me tell you again, as I have before, that anyone living that sort of life will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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1 Samuel 1:6-8
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6 So Peninnah would taunt Hannah and make fun of her because the Lord had kept her from having children. 7 Year after year it was the same—Peninnah would taunt Hannah as they went to the Tabernacle.[a] Each time, Hannah would be reduced to tears and would not even eat.
8 “Why are you crying, Hannah?” Elkanah would ask. “Why aren’t you eating? Why be downhearted just because you have no children? You have me—isn’t that better than having ten sons?”
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James 4:5-6
New Living Translation
5 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] 6 And he gives grace generously. As the Scriptures say,
“God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.”[b]
Proverbs 19:3
New Living Translation
3 People ruin their lives by their own foolishness
and then are angry at the Lord.
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