TOPICAL BIBLE
Envy
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Genesis 4:4while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,Genesis 4:5but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.Genesis 4:6“Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?Genesis 4:7If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you refuse to do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires you, but you must master it.”Genesis 4:8Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.Genesis 16:5Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”Genesis 16:6“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.Genesis 21:9But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,Genesis 21:10and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”Genesis 26:14He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.Genesis 30:1When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.Genesis 30:15But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”Genesis 31:1Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”Genesis 37:4When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.Genesis 37:5Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.Genesis 37:6He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:Genesis 37:7We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and bowed down to mine.”Genesis 37:8“Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.Genesis 37:9Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”Genesis 37:10He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”Genesis 37:11And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.Genesis 37:19“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.Genesis 37:20“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”Numbers 11:28Joshua son of Nun, the attendant to Moses since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”Numbers 11:29But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”Numbers 11:30Then Moses returned to the camp, along with the elders of Israel.Numbers 12:1Then Miriam and Aaron criticized Moses because of the Cushite woman he had married, for he had taken a Cushite wife.Numbers 12:2“Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.Numbers 12:3Now Moses was a very humble man, more so than any man on the face of the earth.Numbers 12:4And suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “You three, come out to the Tent of Meeting.” So the three went out,Numbers 12:5and the LORD came down in a pillar of cloud, stood at the entrance to the Tent, and summoned Aaron and Miriam. When both of them had stepped forward,Numbers 12:6He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.Numbers 12:7But this is not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house.Numbers 12:8I speak with him face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the LORD. Why then were you unafraid to speak against My servant Moses?”Numbers 12:9So the anger of the LORD burned against them, and He departed.Numbers 12:10As the cloud lifted from above the Tent, suddenly Miriam became leprous, white as snow. Aaron turned toward her, saw that she was leprous,Numbers 16:3They came together against Moses and Aaron and told them, “You have taken too much upon yourselves! For everyone in the entire congregation is holy, and the LORD is in their midst. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the LORD?”1 Samuel 18:8And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”1 Samuel 18:9And from that day forward Saul kept a jealous eye on David.1 Samuel 18:29he grew even more afraid of David. So from then on Saul was David’s enemy.1 Samuel 20:31For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingdom shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”Esther 5:13Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”Job 5:2For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.Job 5:3I have seen a fool taking root, but suddenly his house was cursed.Psalm 37:1Of David. Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.Psalm 37:7Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.Psalm 49:16Do not be afraid when a man grows rich, when the splendor of his house increases.Psalm 73:3For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.Psalm 73:17until I entered God’s sanctuary; then I discerned their end.Psalm 73:18Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.Psalm 73:19How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!Psalm 73:20Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.Psalm 106:16In the camp they envied Moses, as well as Aaron, the holy one of the LORD.Psalm 106:17The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan; it covered the assembly of Abiram.Psalm 106:18Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.Psalm 112:10The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.Proverbs 3:31Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;Proverbs 14:30A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.Proverbs 23:17Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.Proverbs 24:1Do not envy wicked men or desire their company;
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