Genesis 30:1

Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, “Then God has also granted to the Gentiles repentance to life!”

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.

Or don’t you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God? You are not your own,

What agreement does a temple of God have with idols? For you are a temple of the living God. Even as God said, “I will dwell in them and walk in them. I will be their God and they will be my people.”

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against Yahweh.” Nathan said to David, “Yahweh also has put away your sin. You will not die.

even that it would please God to crush me; that he would let loose his hand, and cut me off!

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; and a man’s eyes are never satisfied.

Even so, I tell you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner repenting.”

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

But as it is, I wrote to you not to associate with anyone who is called a brother who is a sexual sinner, or covetous, or an idolater, or a slanderer, or a drunkard, or an extortionist. Don’t even eat with such a person.

For first of all, when you come together in the assembly, I hear that divisions exist among you, and I partly believe it.

Now I desire to have you all speak with other languages, but rather that you would prophesy. For he is greater who prophesies than he who speaks with other languages, unless he interprets, that the assembly may be built up.

We also all once lived among them in the lusts of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

For these things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Yahweh saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.

They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above Yahweh’s assembly?”

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and Yahweh enabled her to conceive, and she bore a son.

“My soul is weary of my life. I will give free course to my complaint. I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

When the sun arose, God prepared a sultry east wind; and the sun beat on Jonah’s head, so that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is better for me to die than to live.”

But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.

And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth. He was subject to them, and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

After these things, Jesus was walking in Galilee, for he wouldn’t walk in Judea, because the Jews sought to kill him.

Jesus answered them, “Most certainly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is the bondservant of sin.

“Repent therefore, and turn again, that your sins may be blotted out, so that there may come times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord,

“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

For it has been reported to me concerning you, my brothers, by those who are from Chloe’s household, that there are contentions among you.

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, or riots,

Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

If a man has two wives, the one beloved and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated, and if the firstborn son is hers who was hated,

About Levi he said, “Your Thummim and your Urim are with your godly one, whom you proved at Massah, with whom you contended at the waters of Meribah.

Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab’s anger burned against David, and he said, “Why have you come down? With whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.”

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

Then the presidents and the local governors sought to find occasion against Daniel as touching the kingdom; but they could find no occasion or fault, because he was faithful. There wasn’t any error or fault found in him.

Therefore now, Yahweh, take, I beg you, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.”

Then the King will tell those on his right hand, ‘Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;

Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan, and was led by the Spirit into the wilderness

For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwells no good thing. For desire is present with me, but I don’t find it doing that which is good.

nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.

Now I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s Kingdom; neither does the perishable inherit imperishable.

“We, being Jews by nature, and not Gentile sinners,

But if you bite and devour one another, be careful that you don’t consume one another.

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Let’s therefore give diligence to enter into that rest, lest anyone fall after the same example of disobedience.

There will in no way enter into it anything profane, or one who causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s book of life.

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.

He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”

Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.

A cheerful heart makes good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Sheol, the barren womb; the earth that is not satisfied with water; and the fire that doesn’t say, ‘Enough.’

Woe to the wicked! Disaster is upon them; for the deeds of his hands will be paid back to him.

But the tax collector, standing far away, wouldn’t even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’

“So be careful, or your hearts will be loaded down with carousing, drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day will come on you suddenly.

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.

but now you also put them all away: anger, wrath, malice, slander, and shameful speaking out of your mouth.

For you know that even when he afterward desired to inherit the blessing, he was rejected, for he found no place for a change of mind though he sought it diligently with tears.

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

Don’t grumble, brothers, against one another, so that you won’t be judged. Behold, the judge stands at the door.

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

If you treat me this way, please kill me right now, if I have found favor in your sight; and don’t let me see my wretchedness.”

Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”

But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. Then he requested for himself that he might die, and said, “It is enough. Now, O Yahweh, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.”

He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”

Then she said, “Did I ask you for a son, my lord? Didn’t I say, ‘Do not deceive me’?”

“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

Who is he who will contend with me? For then would I hold my peace and give up the spirit.

They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.

because they were rebellious against his spirit, he spoke rashly with his lips.

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

But they had no child, because Elizabeth was barren, and they both were well advanced in years.

he left Judea and departed into Galilee.

For his disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

For godly sorrow produces repentance to salvation, which brings no regret. But the sorrow of the world produces death.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

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

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?