Keep your heart with all diligence, For out of it [spring] the issues of life.

Let my heart be blameless regarding Your statutes, That I may not be ashamed.

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

For wrath kills a foolish man, And envy slays a simple one.

The wicked will see [it] and be grieved; He will gnash his teeth and melt away; The desire of the wicked shall perish.

" And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; [they are] whisperers,

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

It will be health to your flesh, And strength to your bones.

An excellent wife [is] the crown of her husband, But she who causes shame [is] like rottenness in his bones.

A merry heart does good, [like] medicine, But a broken spirit dries the bones.