For where jealousy and strife [exist], there unrest and every evil deed [are].

From where [come] wars and disputes among you? Is it not from here, from your lusts, which war in your members?

You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend [it] in [gratifying] your lusts.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, "The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously"?

And Rachel, having perceived that she bore Jacob no children, was jealous of her sister; and said to Jacob, Give me children; and if not, I shall die.

And Jacob was angry with Rachel, and said to her, Am I in the place of God, who has deprived you of the fruit of the womb?

And his brothers envied him; but his father observed the saying.

For wrath destroys the foolish one, and envy slays him that has gone astray.

A meek-spirited man is a healer of the heart, but passion is a corruption to the bones.

Wrath is merciless and anger sharp, but envy can bear nothing.

And the envy of Ephraim shall be taken away, and the enemies of Judah shall perish; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not afflict Ephraim.

Why have You shown me troubles and grievances to look upon, misery and ungodliness? Judgment is before me, and the judge receives a reward.

For he knew that they had handed Him over because of envy.

Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,

"And the patriarchs, being jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; and God was with him,

And the Jews, seeing the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and spoke against the things being said by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness; they are whisperers,

Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelries and drinking bouts, not in orgies and debaucheries, not in strife and jealousy.

for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal, and walking according to human principles?

Love is patient, love is kind; love does not envy; love does not boast, is not puffed up;

For I am afraid, lest perhaps when I come, I will not find you as I desire, and that I will be found by you as you do not desire; lest perhaps there [be] contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, disputes, slanders, gossipings, pride, disorders;

But if you bite and devour one another, watch out that you are not consumed by one another!

envies, murders, drinking bouts, revelries, and the like; which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Some indeed are preaching Christ even from envy and strife, but some also from good will:

doing nothing according to selfish ambition or conceit, but with humility, regarding one another as being better than yourselves.

he is puffed up, understanding nothing, but [is] morbidly concerned with disputes and word battles, from which come envy, strife, slanders, evil suspicions,

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, being deceived, being enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Therefore having put away all malice, all guile, hypocrisy, envy, and all slanders,

as newborn babes, desire the genuine milk of the word, that by it you may grow,

Behold, you are called a Jew, and rest on the law, and boast in God,

You who boast in the law, do you dishonor God through the transgression of the law?

For indeed circumcision profits if you keep the law; but if you are a transgressor of the law, your circumcision has become uncircumcision.

And will not the physically uncircumcised, who fulfills the law, judge you along with your written [code] and circumcision, a transgressor of the law?

but he [is] a Jew that [is one] inwardly; and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, whose praise is not of men but of God.

For who makes you differ from another? And what do you have that you did not receive? And if you did indeed receive [what you have], why do you boast as though you did not receive it?

You are already full! You are already rich! You have reigned [as kings] without us; and I wish [that] indeed you did reign, in order that we also might reign with you!

And you are puffed up, and have not rather grieved, so that he who did this deed would be removed from your midst.

Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole batch?

For not even those who are circumcised keep the law themselves, but they wish you to be circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

And he said to him, Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord. And he caused him to sit in his chariot.

But Jehu took no heed to walk in the law of the Lord God of Israel with all his heart: he departed not from following the sins of Jeroboam, who made Israel to sin.

They will excommunicate you; but a time is coming when everyone who kills you will think that he is offering God a service.

Therefore I thought in myself that it was necessary to do many hostile things against the name of Jesus the Nazarene;