A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.
A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.
It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness. They are gossips,
May my heart be blameless in your statutes, that I may not be put to shame!
The wicked man sees it and is angry; he gnashes his teeth and melts away; the desire of the wicked will perish!
Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”?
for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
“And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him
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