Envy
Covet
What is envy?
Wanting to posses
something another person has.
It is a sin to envy or covet, we must be cautious.
We are not to covet or envy others or any of their
materialistic things.
Envy can be a strong force behind unhappiness.
Envy can cause a person to inflict or attack another that
individual emotionally or physically.
Envy can destroy a person emotionally.
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painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by
another joined with a desire to possess the same advantage.
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James
4;2
You
desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get
what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask
God.
Exodus
20;17
“You
shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet
your neighbor’s wife, or his male or female servant, his ox or donkey, or
anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
Joshua
7;21
When
I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of
silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them
and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver
underneath.”
Micah
2;2
They
covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They
defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.
Romans
7;7-8
7 [ The
Law and Sin ] What shall we say, then? Is the law sinful? Certainly not!
Nevertheless, I would not have known what sin was had it not been for the law.
For I would not have known what coveting really was if the law
had not said, “You shall not covet.” 8 But sin, seizing the
opportunity afforded by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting.
For apart from the law, sin was dead.
Romans
13;9
The
commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You
shall not steal,” “You shall not covet,” and whatever other
command there may be, are summed up in this one command: “Love your neighbor as
yourself.”
Job
5;2
Resentment
kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.
Psalm
68;16
why
gaze in envy, you rugged mountain, at the mountain where God
chooses to reign, where the Lord himself will dwell forever?
Proverbs
3;31
Do
not envy the violent or choose any of their ways.
Proverbs
14;30
A
heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
Proverbs
23;17
Do
not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the
fear of the Lord.
Proverbs
24;1
Do
not envy the wicked, do not desire their company.
Ecclesiastes
4;4
And
I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy
of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Ezekiel
31;9
I
made it beautiful with abundant branches, the envy of all the
trees of Eden in the garden of God.
Mark
7;20-23
20 He went on: “What comes out
of a person is what defiles them. 21 For it is from within, out of
a person’s heart, that evil thoughts come—sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery,
greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and
folly. 23 All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Romans
1;29
They
have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity.
They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They
are gossips.
1
Corinthians 13;4
Love
is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it
is not proud.
Galatians
5;21-22
and envy;
drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who
live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 Let us not become
conceited, provoking and envying each other.
Galatians
5;26
Let
us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
Philippians
1;15
It
is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but
others out of goodwill.
1
Timothy 6;4
they
are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in
controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy,
strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions.
Titus
3;3
At
one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds
of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being
hated and hating one another.
James
3;14
But
if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do
not boast about it or deny the truth.
James
3;16
For
where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder
and every evil practice.
1
Peter 2;1
Therefore,
rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and
slander of every kind.
12/3/18