Proverbs 3:31
Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;
BSB
ASV
Envy thou not the man of violence, And choose none of his ways.
KJV
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Envy thou not the oppressor - O how bewitching is power! Every man desires it; and yet all hate tyrants. But query, if all had power, would not the major part be tyrants?
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 37:1Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.
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Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for Him; do not fret when men prosper in their ways, when they carry out wicked schemes.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Do not fret over evildoers, and do not be envious of the wicked.
Do not envy wicked men or desire their company;
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Galatians 5:21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual…
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.
For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
