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Genesis 29:31
When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, He opened her womb; but Rachel was barren.
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Genesis 37:11
And his brothers envied him, but his father kept the matter in mind.
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Job 5:2
For wrath kills a foolish man, And envy slays a simple one.
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Job 3:11
“ Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not perish when I came from the womb?
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John 4:8
For His disciples had gone away into the city to buy food.
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Ecclesiastes 4:4
Again, I saw that for all toil and every skillful work a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
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Numbers 11:15
If You treat me like this, please kill me here and now— if I have found favor in Your sight— and do not let me see my wretchedness!”
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Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed be the day in which I was born! Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!Let the man be cursed Who brought news to my father, saying,“ A male child has been born to you!” Making him very glad.And let that man be like the cities Which the Lord overthrew, and did not relent; Let him hear the cry in the morning And the shouting at noon,Because he did not kill me from the womb, That my mother might have been my grave, And her womb always enlarged with me.Why did I come forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, That my days should be consumed with shame?
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James 3:14
But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
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Job 3:1-3
After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth.And Job spoke, and said:“ May the day perish on which I was born, And the night in which it was said,‘ A male child is conceived.’
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1 Samuel 1 4-1 Samuel 1 8
And whenever the time came for Elkanah to make an offering, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters.But to Hannah he would give a double portion, for he loved Hannah, although the Lord had closed her womb.And her rival also provoked her severely, to make her miserable, because the Lord had closed her womb.So it was, year by year, when she went up to the house of the Lord, that she provoked her; therefore she wept and did not eat.Then Elkanah her husband said to her,“ Hannah, why do you weep? Why do you not eat? And why is your heart grieved? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
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1 Corinthians 3 3
for you are still carnal. For where there are envy, strife, and divisions among you, are you not carnal and behaving like mere men?
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James 4:5
Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain,“ The Spirit who dwells in us yearns jealously”?
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John 4:3
He left Judea and departed again to Galilee.
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1 Kings 19 4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a broom tree. And he prayed that he might die, and said,“ It is enough! Now, Lord, take my life, for I am no better than my fathers!”
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Psalms 106:16
When they envied Moses in the camp, And Aaron the saint of the Lord,
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Job 3:20-22
“ Why is light given to him who is in misery, And life to the bitter of soul,Who long for death, but it does not come, And search for it more than hidden treasures;Who rejoice exceedingly, And are glad when they can find the grave?
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2 Corinthians 7 10
For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.
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Genesis 35:16-19
Then they journeyed from Bethel. And when there was but a little distance to go to Ephrath, Rachel labored in childbirth, and she had hard labor.Now it came to pass, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her,“ Do not fear; you will have this son also.”And so it was, as her soul was departing( for she died), that she called his name Ben-Oni; but his father called him Benjamin.So Rachel died and was buried on the way to Ephrath( that is, Bethlehem).
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Galatians 5:21
envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Numbers 11:29
Then Moses said to him,“ Are you zealous for my sake? Oh, that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit upon them!”
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Proverbs 14:30
A sound heart is life to the body, But envy is rottenness to the bones.
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Job 13:19
Who is he who will contend with me? If now I hold my tongue, I perish.
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Titus 3:3
For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.