Proverbs 27:4

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• Proverbs 6:34
  For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.
• Proverbs 14:30
  A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
• James 3:14-16
  ¹⁴ But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. ¹⁵ This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. ¹⁶ For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.¹⁴ But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth. ¹⁵ Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. ¹⁶ For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.
• Job 5:2
  For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.For resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
• Matthew 27:18
  For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.
• 1 John 3:12
  Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.
• Acts 7:9
  And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him
• Acts 17:5
  But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.
• Song of Solomon 8:6
  Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
• Genesis 37:11
  And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.

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