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Overcoming comparison
Jealousy robs us of joy and gratitude. When we compare ourselves to others, we forget that God has a unique plan for each of us. Envy poisons relationships and blinds us to our own blessings. These verses help us recognize and overcome jealousy, replacing it with contentment and celebration of others.
"A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones."Read full explanation
"For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work."Read full explanation
"Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another."Read full explanation
"Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,"Read full explanation
"Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?"Read full explanation
"Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit."Read full explanation
"Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying."Read full explanation
"Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,"Read full explanation
"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."Read full explanation
"Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God."Read full explanation
"Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity."Read full explanation
"Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them."Read full explanation