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       Wat staat er in de bijbel over Jaloezie
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       Re: Wat staat er in de bijbel over Jaloezie
       By: Devotion Date: January 31, 2020, 5:26 am
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       James 3:16 ESV / 1,416 helpful votes
       For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be
       disorder and every vile practice.
       James 4:2-3 ESV / 988 helpful votes
       You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot
       obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you
       do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly,
       to spend it on your passions.
       Proverbs 14:30 ESV / 887 helpful votes
       A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the
       bones rot.
       James 3:14 ESV / 866 helpful votes
       But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your
       hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
       1 Corinthians 10:13 ESV / 723 helpful votes
       No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God
       is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your
       ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of
       escape, that you may be able to endure it.
       Proverbs 27:4 ESV / 649 helpful votes
       Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before
       jealousy?
       Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 581 helpful votes
       Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality,
       impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife,
       jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
       envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as
       I warned you before, that those who do such things will not
       inherit the kingdom of God.
       James 3:14-15 ESV / 564 helpful votes
       But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your
       hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the
       wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual,
       demonic.
       1 Corinthians 3:3 ESV / 506 helpful votes
       For you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and
       strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in
       a human way?
       Romans 12:21 ESV / 461 helpful votes
       Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
       1 Corinthians 13:1-8 ESV / 386 helpful votes
       If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not
       love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have
       prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all
       knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains,
       but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and
       if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain
       nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast;
       it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way;
       it is not irritable or resentful; ...
       Exodus 20:17 ESV / 286 helpful votes
       “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet
       your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female
       servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your
       neighbor's.”
       1 John 4:8 ESV / 272 helpful votes
       Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
       Proverbs 10:12 ESV / 263 helpful votes
       Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.
       Psalm 25:4-5 ESV / 253 helpful votes
       Make me to know your ways, O Lord; teach me your paths. Lead me
       in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation;
       for you I wait all the day long.
       Galatians 5:22 ESV / 204 helpful votes
       But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
       kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
       Ecclesiastes 4:4 ESV / 198 helpful votes
       Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's
       envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after
       wind.
       Song of Solomon 8:6 ESV / 188 helpful votes
       Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for
       love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its
       flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord.
       Psalm 37:1-40 ESV / 183 helpful votes
       Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious
       of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither
       like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in
       the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the
       Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit
       your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. ...
       James 4:11 ESV / 162 helpful votes
       Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. The one who
       speaks against a brother or judges his brother, speaks evil
       against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law,
       you are not a doer of the law but a judge.
       Galatians 6:4 ESV / 155 helpful votes
       But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast
       will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor.
       Luke 15:25-30 ESV / 151 helpful votes
       “Now his older son was in the field, and as he came and drew
       near to the house, he heard music and dancing. And he called one
       of the servants and asked what these things meant. And he said
       to him, ‘Your brother has come, and your father has killed the
       fattened calf, because he has received him back safe and sound.’
       But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and
       entreated him, but he answered his father, ‘Look, these many
       years I have served you, and I never disobeyed your command, yet
       you never gave me a young goat, that I might celebrate with my
       friends. ...
       Psalm 37:1 ESV / 140 helpful votes
       Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious
       of wrongdoers!
       Proverbs 6:34 ESV / 112 helpful votes
       For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he
       takes revenge.
       1 Corinthians 1:27-29 ESV / 109 helpful votes
       But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise;
       God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; God
       chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that
       are not, to bring to nothing things that are, so that no human
       being might boast in the presence of God.
       1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 102 helpful votes
       Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not
       arrogant
       Deuteronomy 4:24 ESV / 102 helpful votes
       For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
       Job 5:2 ESV / 100 helpful votes
       Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.
       James 4:2 ESV / 96 helpful votes
       You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot
       obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you
       do not ask.
       Proverbs 24:19-20 ESV / 96 helpful votes
       Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of
       the wicked, for the evil man has no future; the lamp of the
       wicked will be put out.
       Genesis 37:1-36 ESV / 95 helpful votes
       Jacob lived in the land of his father's sojournings, in the land
       of Canaan. These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being
       seventeen years old, was pasturing the flock with his brothers.
       He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's
       wives. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to their father.
       Now Israel loved Joseph more than any other of his sons, because
       he was the son of his old age. And he made him a robe of many
       colors. But when his brothers saw that their father loved him
       more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak
       peacefully to him. Now Joseph had a dream, and when he told it
       to his brothers they hated him even more. ...
       Zechariah 8:2 ESV / 88 helpful votes
       “Thus says the Lord of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great
       jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.
       2 Corinthians 11:2 ESV / 86 helpful votes
       For I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to
       one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
       Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 86 helpful votes
       A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He
       makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still
       waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of
       righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through
       the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you
       are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You
       prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you
       anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...
       Hebrews 13:5 ESV / 81 helpful votes
       Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what
       you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake
       you.”
       Galatians 5:26 ESV / 66 helpful votes
       Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one
       another.
       John 3:16 ESV / 66 helpful votes
       “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that
       whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
       James 3:14-16 ESV / 62 helpful votes
       But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your
       hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the
       wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual,
       demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there
       will be disorder and every vile practice.
       1 Corinthians 13:5 ESV / 60 helpful votes
       Or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable
       or resentful;
       Philippians 2:3 ESV / 58 helpful votes
       Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others
       more significant than yourselves.
       Exodus 20:5 ESV / 56 helpful votes
       You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord
       your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers
       on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those
       who hate me,
       Proverbs 1:1-33 ESV / 55 helpful votes
       The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel: To know
       wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to
       receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice,
       and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and
       discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in
       learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, ...
       Romans 13:13 ESV / 54 helpful votes
       Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and
       drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in
       quarreling and jealousy.
       Titus 3:3 ESV / 51 helpful votes
       For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray,
       slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in
       malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
       Proverbs 23:17 ESV / 51 helpful votes
       Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the
       Lord all the day.
       Psalm 37:1-3 ESV / 51 helpful votes
       Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious
       of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither
       like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in
       the land and befriend faithfulness.
       1 Peter 2:1 ESV / 49 helpful votes
       So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and
       all slander.
       Acts 7:9 ESV / 48 helpful votes
       “And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but
       God was with him
       Galatians 5:1-26 ESV / 46 helpful votes
       For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do
       not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you
       that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage
       to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision
       that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from
       Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen
       away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves
       eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. ...
       James 5:1-20 ESV / 45 helpful votes
       Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are
       coming upon you. Your riches have rotted and your garments are
       moth-eaten. Your gold and silver have corroded, and their
       corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh
       like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days. Behold,
       the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept
       back by fraud, are crying out against you, and the cries of the
       harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts. You have
       lived on the earth in luxury and in self-indulgence. You have
       fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. ...
       Proverbs 24:1 ESV / 45 helpful votes
       Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them,
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       Re: Wat staat er in de bijbel over Jaloezie
       By: Devotion Date: January 31, 2020, 5:27 am
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       1 Peter 2:1-3 ESV / 41 helpful votes
       So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and
       all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual
       milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation— if indeed you
       have tasted that the Lord is good.
       Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 41 helpful votes
       And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever
       would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he
       rewards those who seek him.
       1 Timothy 6:4 ESV / 41 helpful votes
       He is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an
       unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words,
       which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions,
       Proverbs 4:23 ESV / 41 helpful votes
       Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs
       of life.
       Acts 13:45 ESV / 38 helpful votes
       But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy
       and began to contradict what was spoken by Paul, reviling him.
       Proverbs 3:31 ESV / 38 helpful votes
       Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways,
       1 Samuel 15:23 ESV / 38 helpful votes
       For rebellion is as the sin of divination, and presumption is as
       iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the
       Lord, he has also rejected you from being king.”
       Galatians 5:25 ESV / 30 helpful votes
       If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.
       2 Corinthians 12:20 ESV / 30 helpful votes
       For I fear that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I
       wish, and that you may find me not as you wish—that perhaps
       there may be quarreling, jealousy, anger, hostility, slander,
       gossip, conceit, and disorder.
       Matthew 27:18 ESV / 30 helpful votes
       For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him
       up.
       1 Peter 2:1-2 ESV / 28 helpful votes
       So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and
       all slander. Like newborn infants, long for the pure spiritual
       milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation—
       Matthew 19:28 ESV / 28 helpful votes
       Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, in the new world, when
       the Son of Man will sit on his glorious throne, you who have
       followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve
       tribes of Israel.
       Exodus 34:14 ESV / 28 helpful votes
       (for you shall worship no other god, for the Lord, whose name is
       Jealous, is a jealous God),
       Romans 8:28 ESV / 26 helpful votes
       And we know that for those who love God all things work together
       for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
       Galatians 6:4-5 ESV / 25 helpful votes
       But let each one test his own work, and then his reason to boast
       will be in himself alone and not in his neighbor. For each will
       have to bear his own load.
       1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 25 helpful votes
       If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not
       love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have
       prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all
       knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains,
       but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and
       if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain
       nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast;
       it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way;
       it is not irritable or resentful; ...
       Romans 13:13-14 ESV / 25 helpful votes
       Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and
       drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in
       quarreling and jealousy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and
       make no provision for the flesh, to gratify its desires.
       Acts 17:5 ESV / 25 helpful votes
       But the Jews were jealous, and taking some wicked men of the
       rabble, they formed a mob, set the city in an uproar, and
       attacked the house of Jason, seeking to bring them out to the
       crowd.
       Mark 15:10 ESV / 25 helpful votes
       For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests
       had delivered him up.
       Mark 7:21-23 ESV / 25 helpful votes
       For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts,
       sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting,
       wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride,
       foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they
       defile a person.”
       Matthew 25:1-46 ESV / 25 helpful votes
       “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took
       their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were
       foolish, and five were wise. For when the foolish took their
       lamps, they took no oil with them, but the wise took flasks of
       oil with their lamps. As the bridegroom was delayed, they all
       became drowsy and slept. ...
       Proverbs 24:19 ESV / 25 helpful votes
       Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of
       the wicked,
       Proverbs 3:1-35 ESV / 25 helpful votes
       My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my
       commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace
       they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness
       forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the
       tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in
       the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart,
       and do not lean on your own understanding. ...
       Psalm 73:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes
       For I was envious of the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of
       the wicked.
       Genesis 37:4 ESV / 25 helpful votes
       But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than
       all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peacefully
       to him.
       Genesis 4:8 ESV / 25 helpful votes
       Cain spoke to Abel his brother. And when they were in the field,
       Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
       Philippians 1:15 ESV / 24 helpful votes
       Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from
       good will.
       1 Peter 2:9 ESV / 23 helpful votes
       But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a
       people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the
       excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his
       marvelous light.
       Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 23 helpful votes
       But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,
       kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control;
       against such things there is no law.
       Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 23 helpful votes
       The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning
       Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and
       Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O
       earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and
       brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its
       owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not
       know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people
       laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal
       corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the
       Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you
       still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole
       head is sick, and the whole heart faint. ...
       James 5:9 ESV / 22 helpful votes
       Do not grumble against one another, brothers, so that you may
       not be judged; behold, the Judge is standing at the door.
       James 4:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes
       Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says,
       “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell
       in us”?
       Romans 10:19 ESV / 21 helpful votes
       But I ask, did Israel not understand? First Moses says, “I will
       make you jealous of those who are not a nation; with a foolish
       nation I will make you angry.”
       Mark 7:21-22 ESV / 21 helpful votes
       For from within, out of the heart of man, come evil thoughts,
       sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, coveting,
       wickedness, deceit, sensuality, envy, slander, pride,
       foolishness.
       Matthew 20:1-16 ESV / 21 helpful votes
       “For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went
       out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard.
       After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius a day, he sent
       them into his vineyard. And going out about the third hour he
       saw others standing idle in the marketplace, and to them he
       said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I
       will give you.’ So they went. Going out again about the sixth
       hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. ...
       Isaiah 11:13 ESV / 21 helpful votes
       The jealousy of Ephraim shall depart, and those who harass Judah
       shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not be jealous of Judah, and
       Judah shall not harass Ephraim.
       Ecclesiastes 5:18 ESV / 21 helpful votes
       Behold, what I have seen to be good and fitting is to eat and
       drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils
       under the sun the few days of his life that God has given him,
       for this is his lot.
       Proverbs 23:17-18 ESV / 21 helpful votes
       Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the
       Lord all the day. Surely there is a future, and your hope will
       not be cut off.
       Psalm 73:1-28 ESV / 21 helpful votes
       A Psalm of Asaph. Truly God is good to Israel, to those who are
       pure in heart. But as for me, my feet had almost stumbled, my
       steps had nearly slipped. For I was envious of the arrogant when
       I saw the prosperity of the wicked. For they have no pangs until
       death; their bodies are fat and sleek. They are not in trouble
       as others are; they are not stricken like the rest of mankind.
       ...
       John 8:32 ESV / 18 helpful votes
       And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
       Numbers 16:3 ESV / 18 helpful votes
       They assembled themselves together against Moses and against
       Aaron and said to them, “You have gone too far! For all in the
       congregation are holy, every one of them, and the Lord is among
       them. Why then do you exalt yourselves above the assembly of the
       Lord?”
       James 3:17-4:7 ESV / 17 helpful votes
       But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle,
       open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and
       sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by
       those who make peace. What causes quarrels and what causes
       fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war
       within you? You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet
       and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have,
       because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you
       ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions. ...
       2 Corinthians 10:12-18 ESV / 17 helpful votes
       Not that we dare to classify or compare ourselves with some of
       those who are commending themselves. But when they measure
       themselves by one another and compare themselves with one
       another, they are without understanding. But we will not boast
       beyond limits, but will boast only with regard to the area of
       influence God assigned to us, to reach even to you. For we are
       not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. For
       we were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of
       Christ. We do not boast beyond limit in the labors of others.
       But our hope is that as your faith increases, our area of
       influence among you may be greatly enlarged, so that we may
       preach the gospel in lands beyond you, without boasting of work
       already done in another's area of influence. ...
       1 Corinthians 13:4-6 ESV / 17 helpful votes
       Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not
       arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not
       irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but
       rejoices with the truth.
       Ezekiel 16:42 ESV / 17 helpful votes
       So will I satisfy my wrath on you, and my jealousy shall depart
       from you. I will be calm and will no more be angry.
       Isaiah 14:1-32 ESV / 17 helpful votes
       For the Lord will have compassion on Jacob and will again choose
       Israel, and will set them in their own land, and sojourners will
       join them and will attach themselves to the house of Jacob. And
       the peoples will take them and bring them to their place, and
       the house of Israel will possess them in the Lord's land as male
       and female slaves. They will take captive those who were their
       captors, and rule over those who oppressed them. When the Lord
       has given you rest from your pain and turmoil and the hard
       service with which you were made to serve, you will take up this
       taunt against the king of Babylon: “How the oppressor has
       ceased, the insolent fury ceased! The Lord has broken the staff
       of the wicked, the scepter of rulers, ...
       Romans 12:1-21 ESV / 16 helpful votes
       I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to
       present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable
       to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to
       this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that
       by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good
       and acceptable and perfect. For by the grace given to me I say
       to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than
       he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each
       according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. For as
       in one body we have many members, and the members do not all
       have the same function, so we, though many, are one body in
       Christ, and individually members one of another. ...
       1 Corinthians 10:22 ESV / 14 helpful votes
       Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
       Matthew 5:11-16 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful
       “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and
       utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account.
       Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so
       they persecuted the prophets who were before you. “You are the
       salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its
       saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except
       to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. “You are the
       light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor
       do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a
       stand, and it gives light to all in the house. ...
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