Proverbs 27:4
"Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?"
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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."
Read in chapter → - Proverbs 14:30
"A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones."
Read in chapter → - James 3:14
"But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth."
Read in chapter → - Job 5:2
"For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one."
Read in chapter → - Matthew 27:18
"For he knew that for envy they had delivered him."
Read in chapter → - Acts 7:9
"And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,"
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - James 1:19
"Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:"
Read in chapter → - 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."
Read in chapter → - 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."
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