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Psalms 37:7
Wait patiently for the LORD! Wait confidently for him! Do not fret over the apparent success of a sinner, a man who carries out wicked schemes!
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Proverbs 23:17
Do not let your heart envy sinners, but rather be zealous in fearing the LORD all the time.
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Proverbs 24:19
Do not fret because of evil people or be envious of wicked people,
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Proverbs 3:31
Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose to imitate any of his ways;
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Proverbs 24:1
Do not envy evil people, do not desire to be with them;
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Psalms 73:3
For I envied those who are proud, as I observed the prosperity of the wicked.
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Galatians 5:21
envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!
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Proverbs 19:3
A person’s folly subverts his way, and his heart rages against the LORD.
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1 Samuel 1 6-1 Samuel 1 8
Her rival wife used to upset her and make her worry, for the LORD had not enabled her to have children.Peninnah would behave this way year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the LORD’s house, Peninnah would upset her so that she would weep and refuse to eat.Finally her husband Elkanah said to her,“ Hannah, why do you weep and not eat? Why are you so sad? Am I not better to you than ten sons?”
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James 4:5-6
Or do you think the scripture means nothing when it says,“ The spirit that God caused to live within us has an envious yearning”?But he gives greater grace. Therefore it says,“ God opposes the proud, but he gives grace to the humble.”