Genesis 37:11

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.

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

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.

Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.

The nations will see and be ashamed of all their might. They will lay their hand on their mouth. Their ears will be deaf.

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.

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.

that you will do us no harm, as we have not touched you, and as we have done to you nothing but good, and have sent you away in peace.’ You are now the blessed of Yahweh.”

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

Midianites who were merchants passed by, and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver. The merchants brought Joseph into Egypt.

Joseph said to his brothers, “Come near to me, please.” They came near. He said, “I am Joseph, your brother, whom you sold into Egypt.

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?”

These words, which I command you today, shall be on your heart;

He said, “You are blessed by Yahweh, my daughter. You have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, because you didn’t follow young men, whether poor or rich.

He sent a man before them. Joseph was sold for a slave.

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

For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.

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

Then join them for yourself to one another into one stick, that they may become one in your hand.

Then the king’s face was changed in him, and his thoughts troubled him; and the joints of his thighs were loosened, and his knees struck one against another.

I, Daniel, fainted, and was sick for some days. Then I rose up, and did the king’s business. I wondered at the vision, but no one understood it.

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.

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

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

But some Jews from Antioch and Iconium came there, and having persuaded the multitudes, they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.

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

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.

persecutions, and sufferings: those things that happened to me at Antioch, Iconium, and Lystra. I endured those persecutions. The Lord delivered me out of them all.

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.

When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”

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 asked him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Will you indeed have dominion over us?” They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.

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!”

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.”

David laid up these words in his heart, and was very afraid of Achish the king of Gath.

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

Blessed are you by Yahweh, who made heaven and earth.

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

In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.

Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was stricken mute for a while, and his thoughts troubled him. The king answered, “Belteshazzar, don’t let the dream, or the interpretation, trouble you.” Belteshazzar answered, “My lord, may the dream be for those who hate you, and its interpretation to your adversaries.

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.

The children of Judah and the children of Israel will be gathered together, and they will appoint themselves one head, and will go up from the land; for great will be the day of Jezreel.

Let your hand be lifted up above your adversaries, and let all of your enemies be cut off.

Yet now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ says Yahweh. ‘Be strong, Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ says Yahweh, ‘and work, for I am with you,’ says Yahweh of Armies.

A man’s foes will be those of his own household.

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;

But 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

When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!”

Punishing them often in all the synagogues, I tried to make them blaspheme. Being exceedingly enraged against them, I persecuted them even to foreign cities.

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,

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,

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

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly; in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your heart to the Lord.

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.

but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

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 said to one another, “Behold, this dreamer comes.

He said to his mother, “The eleven hundred pieces of silver that were taken from you, about which you uttered a curse, and also spoke it in my ears—behold, the silver is with me. I took it.” His mother said, “May Yahweh bless my son!”

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

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

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

“Here is the end of the matter. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts much troubled me, and my face was changed in me; but I kept the matter in my heart.”

So I was left alone, and saw this great vision. No strength remained in me; for my face grew deathly pale, and I retained no strength.

Isn’t this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, Joses, Judah, and Simon? Aren’t his sisters here with us?” They were offended at him.

He said, “Come in, you blessed of Yahweh. Why do you stand outside? For I have prepared the house, and room for the camels.”

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

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

A brother offended is more difficult than a fortified city. Disputes are like the bars of a fortress.

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.

The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.

Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

I made it beautiful by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.’

For he knew that because of envy they had delivered him up.

They kept this saying to themselves, questioning what the “rising from the dead” meant.

For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.

All who heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, “What then will this child be?” The hand of the Lord was with him.

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

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

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”?