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Parallel Verses
  • 新标点和合本 - 你们心里若怀着苦毒的嫉妒和纷争,就不可自夸,也不可说谎话抵挡真道。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 你们心里若怀着恶毒的嫉妒和自私,就不可自夸,不可说谎话抵挡真理。
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 你们心里若怀着恶毒的嫉妒和自私,就不可自夸,不可说谎话抵挡真理。
  • 当代译本 - 但如果你们心怀苦涩的嫉妒和自私的野心,就不要自夸,也不要违背真理去撒谎。
  • 圣经新译本 - 如果你们心中存着刻薄的嫉妒和自私,就不可夸口,也不可说谎抵挡真理。
  • 中文标准译本 - 但如果你们心里怀着苦毒的嫉妒和争竞 ,就不要自夸、说谎而抵挡真理。
  • 现代标点和合本 - 你们心里若怀着苦毒的嫉妒和纷争,就不可自夸,也不可说谎话抵挡真道。
  • 和合本(拼音版) - 你们心里若怀着苦毒的嫉妒和纷争,就不可自夸,也不可说谎话抵挡真道。
  • New International Version - But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.
  • New International Reader's Version - But suppose your hearts are jealous and bitter. Suppose you are concerned only about getting ahead. Then don’t brag about it. And don’t say no to the truth.
  • English Standard Version - But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
  • New Living Translation - But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don’t cover up the truth with boasting and lying.
  • Christian Standard Bible - But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and deny the truth.
  • New American Standard Bible - But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.
  • New King James Version - But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
  • Amplified Bible - But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant, and [as a result] be in defiance of the truth.
  • American Standard Version - But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.
  • King James Version - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
  • New English Translation - But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.
  • World English Bible - But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
  • 新標點和合本 - 你們心裏若懷着苦毒的嫉妒和紛爭,就不可自誇,也不可說謊話抵擋真道。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 你們心裏若懷着惡毒的嫉妒和自私,就不可自誇,不可說謊話抵擋真理。
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 你們心裏若懷着惡毒的嫉妒和自私,就不可自誇,不可說謊話抵擋真理。
  • 當代譯本 - 但如果你們心懷苦澀的嫉妒和自私的野心,就不要自誇,也不要違背真理去撒謊。
  • 聖經新譯本 - 如果你們心中存著刻薄的嫉妒和自私,就不可誇口,也不可說謊抵擋真理。
  • 呂振中譯本 - 你們若存着苦毒的妒忌和營私爭勝在心裏,別自己誇勝、作假事以敵真理了。
  • 中文標準譯本 - 但如果你們心裡懷著苦毒的嫉妒和爭競 ,就不要自誇、說謊而抵擋真理。
  • 現代標點和合本 - 你們心裡若懷著苦毒的嫉妒和紛爭,就不可自誇,也不可說謊話抵擋真道。
  • 文理和合譯本 - 若心懷嫉很朋黨、則勿誇勿誑、以敵真理、
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 如心懷嫉狠忿戾、則勿自矜、冒稱真理、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 爾心若懷嫉很、紛爭、則勿矜誇、勿誑妄、以敵真理、
  • 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 若爾心中尚存忌刻好勝之意、則勿自誇為智、以欺真理。
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - Pero, si ustedes tienen envidias amargas y rivalidades en el corazón, dejen de presumir y de faltar a la verdad.
  • 현대인의 성경 - 그러나 마음속에 지독한 시기심과 이기적인 욕망이 있다면 여러분은 자랑하지 마십시오. 그리고 진리를 거슬러 거짓말하지 마십시오.
  • Новый Русский Перевод - Но если вы вынашиваете в сердце горькую зависть и честолюбие, то не хвалитесь и не лгите против истины.
  • Восточный перевод - Но если вы вынашиваете в сердце горькую зависть и честолюбие, то не хвалитесь и не лгите против истины.
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Но если вы вынашиваете в сердце горькую зависть и честолюбие, то не хвалитесь и не лгите против истины.
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Но если вы вынашиваете в сердце горькую зависть и честолюбие, то не хвалитесь и не лгите против истины.
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mais si votre cœur est plein d’amère jalousie, si vous êtes animés d’un esprit querelleur, il n’y a vraiment pas lieu de vous vanter ; ce serait faire entorse à la vérité.
  • リビングバイブル - しかし、もし自分にねたみや敵対心があるなら、決してその知恵をひけらかしてはいけません。それは偽善です。
  • Nestle Aland 28 - εἰ δὲ ζῆλον πικρὸν ἔχετε καὶ ἐριθείαν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ὑμῶν, μὴ κατακαυχᾶσθε καὶ ψεύδεσθε κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας.
  • unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - εἰ δὲ ζῆλον πικρὸν ἔχετε, καὶ ἐριθείαν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ὑμῶν, μὴ κατακαυχᾶσθε καὶ ψεύδεσθε κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας.
  • Nova Versão Internacional - Contudo, se vocês abrigam no coração inveja amarga e ambição egoísta, não se gloriem disso nem neguem a verdade.
  • Hoffnung für alle - Seid ihr aber gehässig, voller Neid und Streitsucht, dann braucht ihr euch auf eure angebliche Weisheit nichts einzubilden. In Wirklichkeit verdreht ihr so die Wahrheit.
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Nhưng nếu ai khoe mình khôn ngoan mà còn ganh tị, hiềm khích, ích kỷ, là nói dối trắng trợn.
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - แต่ถ้าท่านขมขื่นด้วยใจอิจฉาและทะเยอทะยานอย่างเห็นแก่ตัวก็อย่าโอ้อวดหรือปฏิเสธความจริง
  • พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - แต่​หาก​ใจ​ของ​ท่าน​เต็ม​ด้วย​ความ​อิจฉา​และ​ความ​ทะเยอทะยาน​ที่​เห็น​แก่​ตัว ก็​อย่า​โอ้อวด​ตัว และ​คิด​ผิด​จาก​ความ​เป็น​จริง​เลย
Cross Reference
  • Titus 3:3 - It wasn’t so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and stubborn, easy marks for sin, ordered every which way by our glands, going around with a chip on our shoulder, hated and hating back. But when God, our kind and loving Savior God, stepped in, he saved us from all that. It was all his doing; we had nothing to do with it. He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit. Our Savior Jesus poured out new life so generously. God’s gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. And there’s more life to come—an eternity of life! You can count on this.
  • 1 Corinthians 5:6 - Your flip and callous arrogance in these things bothers me. You pass it off as a small thing, but it’s anything but that. Yeast, too, is a “small thing,” but it works its way through a whole batch of bread dough pretty fast. So get rid of this “yeast.” Our true identity is flat and plain, not puffed up with the wrong kind of ingredient. The Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has already been sacrificed for the Passover meal, and we are the Unraised Bread part of the Feast. So let’s live out our part in the Feast, not as raised bread swollen with the yeast of evil, but as flat bread—simple, genuine, unpretentious.
  • James 4:1 - Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. You lust for what you don’t have and are willing to kill to get it. You want what isn’t yours and will risk violence to get your hands on it.
  • James 4:2 - You wouldn’t think of just asking God for it, would you? And why not? Because you know you’d be asking for what you have no right to. You’re spoiled children, each wanting your own way.
  • James 4:4 - You’re cheating on God. If all you want is your own way, flirting with the world every chance you get, you end up enemies of God and his way. And do you suppose God doesn’t care? The proverb has it that “he’s a fiercely jealous lover.” And what he gives in love is far better than anything else you’ll find. It’s common knowledge that “God goes against the willful proud; God gives grace to the willing humble.”
  • Romans 2:17 - If you’re brought up Jewish, don’t assume that you can lean back in the arms of your religion and take it easy, feeling smug because you’re an insider to God’s revelation, a connoisseur of the best things of God, informed on the latest doctrines! I have a special word of caution for you who are sure that you have it all together yourselves and, because you know God’s revealed Word inside and out, feel qualified to guide others through their blind alleys and dark nights and confused emotions to God. While you are guiding others, who is going to guide you? I’m quite serious. While preaching “Don’t steal!” are you going to rob people blind? Who would suspect you? The same with adultery. The same with idolatry. You can get by with almost anything if you front it with eloquent talk about God and his law. The line from Scripture, “It’s because of you Jews that the outsiders frown on God,” shows it’s an old problem that isn’t going to go away.
  • Genesis 30:1 - When Rachel realized that she wasn’t having any children for Jacob, she became jealous of her sister. She told Jacob, “Give me sons or I’ll die!”
  • Genesis 30:2 - Jacob got angry with Rachel and said, “Am I God? Am I the one who refused you babies?”
  • Proverbs 14:30 - A sound mind makes for a robust body, but runaway emotions corrode the bones.
  • 2 Kings 10:16 - “Come along with me,” said Jehu, “and witness my zeal for God.” Together they proceeded in the chariot.
  • Acts 7:9 - “But then those ‘fathers,’ burning up with jealousy, sent Joseph off to Egypt as a slave. God was right there with him, though—he not only rescued him from all his troubles but brought him to the attention of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He was so impressed with Joseph that he put him in charge of the whole country, including his own personal affairs.
  • Acts 26:9 - “I admit that I didn’t always hold to this position. For a time I thought it was my duty to oppose this Jesus of Nazareth with all my might. Backed with the full authority of the high priests, I threw these believers—I had no idea they were God’s people!—into the Jerusalem jail right and left, and whenever it came to a vote, I voted for their execution. I stormed through their meeting places, bullying them into cursing Jesus, a one-man terror obsessed with obliterating these people. And then I started on the towns outside Jerusalem.
  • Proverbs 27:4 - We’re blasted by anger and swamped by rage, but who can survive jealousy?
  • 2 Kings 10:31 - Even then, though, Jehu wasn’t careful to walk in God’s ways and honor the God of Israel from an undivided heart. He didn’t turn back from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel into a life of sin.
  • 1 Corinthians 4:7 - For who do you know that really knows you, knows your heart? And even if they did, is there anything they would discover in you that you could take credit for? Isn’t everything you have and everything you are sheer gifts from God? So what’s the point of all this comparing and competing? You already have all you need. You already have more access to God than you can handle. Without bringing either Apollos or me into it, you’re sitting on top of the world—at least God’s world—and we’re right there, sitting alongside you!
  • Romans 2:25 - Circumcision, the surgical ritual that marks you as a Jew, is great if you live in accord with God’s law. But if you don’t, it’s worse than not being circumcised. The reverse is also true: The uncircumcised who keep God’s ways are as good as the circumcised—in fact, better. Better to keep God’s law uncircumcised than break it circumcised. Don’t you see: It’s not the cut of a knife that makes a Jew. You become a Jew by who you are. It’s the mark of God on your heart, not of a knife on your skin, that makes a Jew. And recognition comes from God, not legalistic critics. * * *
  • Acts 5:17 - Provoked mightily by all this, the Chief Priest and those on his side, mainly the sect of Sadducees, went into action, arrested the apostles and put them in the town jail. But during the night an angel of God opened the jailhouse door and led them out. He said, “Go to the Temple and take your stand. Tell the people everything there is to say about this Life.” Promptly obedient, they entered the Temple at daybreak and went on with their teaching.
  • 1 Peter 2:1 - So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You’ve had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God’s pure kindness. Then you’ll grow up mature and whole in God.
  • James 5:19 - My dear friends, if you know people who have wandered off from God’s truth, don’t write them off. Go after them. Get them back and you will have rescued precious lives from destruction and prevented an epidemic of wandering away from God.
  • Philippians 1:15 - It’s true that some here preach Christ because with me out of the way, they think they’ll step right into the spotlight. But the others do it with the best heart in the world. One group is motivated by pure love, knowing that I am here defending the Message, wanting to help. The others, now that I’m out of the picture, are merely greedy, hoping to get something out of it for themselves. Their motives are bad. They see me as their competition, and so the worse it goes for me, the better—they think—for them.
  • 2 Corinthians 12:20 - I do admit that I have fears that when I come you’ll disappoint me and I’ll disappoint you, and in frustration with each other everything will fall to pieces—quarrels, jealousy, flaring tempers, taking sides, angry words, vicious rumors, swelled heads, and general bedlam. I don’t look forward to a second humiliation by God among you, compounded by hot tears over that crowd that keeps sinning over and over in the same old ways, who refuse to turn away from the pigsty of evil, sexual disorder, and indecency in which they wallow.
Parallel VersesCross Reference
  • 新标点和合本 - 你们心里若怀着苦毒的嫉妒和纷争,就不可自夸,也不可说谎话抵挡真道。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-简体) - 你们心里若怀着恶毒的嫉妒和自私,就不可自夸,不可说谎话抵挡真理。
  • 和合本2010(神版-简体) - 你们心里若怀着恶毒的嫉妒和自私,就不可自夸,不可说谎话抵挡真理。
  • 当代译本 - 但如果你们心怀苦涩的嫉妒和自私的野心,就不要自夸,也不要违背真理去撒谎。
  • 圣经新译本 - 如果你们心中存着刻薄的嫉妒和自私,就不可夸口,也不可说谎抵挡真理。
  • 中文标准译本 - 但如果你们心里怀着苦毒的嫉妒和争竞 ,就不要自夸、说谎而抵挡真理。
  • 现代标点和合本 - 你们心里若怀着苦毒的嫉妒和纷争,就不可自夸,也不可说谎话抵挡真道。
  • 和合本(拼音版) - 你们心里若怀着苦毒的嫉妒和纷争,就不可自夸,也不可说谎话抵挡真道。
  • New International Version - But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.
  • New International Reader's Version - But suppose your hearts are jealous and bitter. Suppose you are concerned only about getting ahead. Then don’t brag about it. And don’t say no to the truth.
  • English Standard Version - But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth.
  • New Living Translation - But if you are bitterly jealous and there is selfish ambition in your heart, don’t cover up the truth with boasting and lying.
  • Christian Standard Bible - But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and deny the truth.
  • New American Standard Bible - But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.
  • New King James Version - But if you have bitter envy and self-seeking in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth.
  • Amplified Bible - But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not be arrogant, and [as a result] be in defiance of the truth.
  • American Standard Version - But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.
  • King James Version - But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
  • New English Translation - But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.
  • World English Bible - But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.
  • 新標點和合本 - 你們心裏若懷着苦毒的嫉妒和紛爭,就不可自誇,也不可說謊話抵擋真道。
  • 和合本2010(上帝版-繁體) - 你們心裏若懷着惡毒的嫉妒和自私,就不可自誇,不可說謊話抵擋真理。
  • 和合本2010(神版-繁體) - 你們心裏若懷着惡毒的嫉妒和自私,就不可自誇,不可說謊話抵擋真理。
  • 當代譯本 - 但如果你們心懷苦澀的嫉妒和自私的野心,就不要自誇,也不要違背真理去撒謊。
  • 聖經新譯本 - 如果你們心中存著刻薄的嫉妒和自私,就不可誇口,也不可說謊抵擋真理。
  • 呂振中譯本 - 你們若存着苦毒的妒忌和營私爭勝在心裏,別自己誇勝、作假事以敵真理了。
  • 中文標準譯本 - 但如果你們心裡懷著苦毒的嫉妒和爭競 ,就不要自誇、說謊而抵擋真理。
  • 現代標點和合本 - 你們心裡若懷著苦毒的嫉妒和紛爭,就不可自誇,也不可說謊話抵擋真道。
  • 文理和合譯本 - 若心懷嫉很朋黨、則勿誇勿誑、以敵真理、
  • 文理委辦譯本 - 如心懷嫉狠忿戾、則勿自矜、冒稱真理、
  • 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 爾心若懷嫉很、紛爭、則勿矜誇、勿誑妄、以敵真理、
  • 吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 若爾心中尚存忌刻好勝之意、則勿自誇為智、以欺真理。
  • Nueva Versión Internacional - Pero, si ustedes tienen envidias amargas y rivalidades en el corazón, dejen de presumir y de faltar a la verdad.
  • 현대인의 성경 - 그러나 마음속에 지독한 시기심과 이기적인 욕망이 있다면 여러분은 자랑하지 마십시오. 그리고 진리를 거슬러 거짓말하지 마십시오.
  • Новый Русский Перевод - Но если вы вынашиваете в сердце горькую зависть и честолюбие, то не хвалитесь и не лгите против истины.
  • Восточный перевод - Но если вы вынашиваете в сердце горькую зависть и честолюбие, то не хвалитесь и не лгите против истины.
  • Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Но если вы вынашиваете в сердце горькую зависть и честолюбие, то не хвалитесь и не лгите против истины.
  • Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Но если вы вынашиваете в сердце горькую зависть и честолюбие, то не хвалитесь и не лгите против истины.
  • La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Mais si votre cœur est plein d’amère jalousie, si vous êtes animés d’un esprit querelleur, il n’y a vraiment pas lieu de vous vanter ; ce serait faire entorse à la vérité.
  • リビングバイブル - しかし、もし自分にねたみや敵対心があるなら、決してその知恵をひけらかしてはいけません。それは偽善です。
  • Nestle Aland 28 - εἰ δὲ ζῆλον πικρὸν ἔχετε καὶ ἐριθείαν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ὑμῶν, μὴ κατακαυχᾶσθε καὶ ψεύδεσθε κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας.
  • unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - εἰ δὲ ζῆλον πικρὸν ἔχετε, καὶ ἐριθείαν ἐν τῇ καρδίᾳ ὑμῶν, μὴ κατακαυχᾶσθε καὶ ψεύδεσθε κατὰ τῆς ἀληθείας.
  • Nova Versão Internacional - Contudo, se vocês abrigam no coração inveja amarga e ambição egoísta, não se gloriem disso nem neguem a verdade.
  • Hoffnung für alle - Seid ihr aber gehässig, voller Neid und Streitsucht, dann braucht ihr euch auf eure angebliche Weisheit nichts einzubilden. In Wirklichkeit verdreht ihr so die Wahrheit.
  • Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Nhưng nếu ai khoe mình khôn ngoan mà còn ganh tị, hiềm khích, ích kỷ, là nói dối trắng trợn.
  • พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - แต่ถ้าท่านขมขื่นด้วยใจอิจฉาและทะเยอทะยานอย่างเห็นแก่ตัวก็อย่าโอ้อวดหรือปฏิเสธความจริง
  • พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - แต่​หาก​ใจ​ของ​ท่าน​เต็ม​ด้วย​ความ​อิจฉา​และ​ความ​ทะเยอทะยาน​ที่​เห็น​แก่​ตัว ก็​อย่า​โอ้อวด​ตัว และ​คิด​ผิด​จาก​ความ​เป็น​จริง​เลย
  • Titus 3:3 - It wasn’t so long ago that we ourselves were stupid and stubborn, easy marks for sin, ordered every which way by our glands, going around with a chip on our shoulder, hated and hating back. But when God, our kind and loving Savior God, stepped in, he saved us from all that. It was all his doing; we had nothing to do with it. He gave us a good bath, and we came out of it new people, washed inside and out by the Holy Spirit. Our Savior Jesus poured out new life so generously. God’s gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. And there’s more life to come—an eternity of life! You can count on this.
  • 1 Corinthians 5:6 - Your flip and callous arrogance in these things bothers me. You pass it off as a small thing, but it’s anything but that. Yeast, too, is a “small thing,” but it works its way through a whole batch of bread dough pretty fast. So get rid of this “yeast.” Our true identity is flat and plain, not puffed up with the wrong kind of ingredient. The Messiah, our Passover Lamb, has already been sacrificed for the Passover meal, and we are the Unraised Bread part of the Feast. So let’s live out our part in the Feast, not as raised bread swollen with the yeast of evil, but as flat bread—simple, genuine, unpretentious.
  • James 4:1 - Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. You lust for what you don’t have and are willing to kill to get it. You want what isn’t yours and will risk violence to get your hands on it.
  • James 4:2 - You wouldn’t think of just asking God for it, would you? And why not? Because you know you’d be asking for what you have no right to. You’re spoiled children, each wanting your own way.
  • James 4:4 - You’re cheating on God. If all you want is your own way, flirting with the world every chance you get, you end up enemies of God and his way. And do you suppose God doesn’t care? The proverb has it that “he’s a fiercely jealous lover.” And what he gives in love is far better than anything else you’ll find. It’s common knowledge that “God goes against the willful proud; God gives grace to the willing humble.”
  • Romans 2:17 - If you’re brought up Jewish, don’t assume that you can lean back in the arms of your religion and take it easy, feeling smug because you’re an insider to God’s revelation, a connoisseur of the best things of God, informed on the latest doctrines! I have a special word of caution for you who are sure that you have it all together yourselves and, because you know God’s revealed Word inside and out, feel qualified to guide others through their blind alleys and dark nights and confused emotions to God. While you are guiding others, who is going to guide you? I’m quite serious. While preaching “Don’t steal!” are you going to rob people blind? Who would suspect you? The same with adultery. The same with idolatry. You can get by with almost anything if you front it with eloquent talk about God and his law. The line from Scripture, “It’s because of you Jews that the outsiders frown on God,” shows it’s an old problem that isn’t going to go away.
  • Genesis 30:1 - When Rachel realized that she wasn’t having any children for Jacob, she became jealous of her sister. She told Jacob, “Give me sons or I’ll die!”
  • Genesis 30:2 - Jacob got angry with Rachel and said, “Am I God? Am I the one who refused you babies?”
  • Proverbs 14:30 - A sound mind makes for a robust body, but runaway emotions corrode the bones.
  • 2 Kings 10:16 - “Come along with me,” said Jehu, “and witness my zeal for God.” Together they proceeded in the chariot.
  • Acts 7:9 - “But then those ‘fathers,’ burning up with jealousy, sent Joseph off to Egypt as a slave. God was right there with him, though—he not only rescued him from all his troubles but brought him to the attention of Pharaoh, king of Egypt. He was so impressed with Joseph that he put him in charge of the whole country, including his own personal affairs.
  • Acts 26:9 - “I admit that I didn’t always hold to this position. For a time I thought it was my duty to oppose this Jesus of Nazareth with all my might. Backed with the full authority of the high priests, I threw these believers—I had no idea they were God’s people!—into the Jerusalem jail right and left, and whenever it came to a vote, I voted for their execution. I stormed through their meeting places, bullying them into cursing Jesus, a one-man terror obsessed with obliterating these people. And then I started on the towns outside Jerusalem.
  • Proverbs 27:4 - We’re blasted by anger and swamped by rage, but who can survive jealousy?
  • 2 Kings 10:31 - Even then, though, Jehu wasn’t careful to walk in God’s ways and honor the God of Israel from an undivided heart. He didn’t turn back from the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, who led Israel into a life of sin.
  • 1 Corinthians 4:7 - For who do you know that really knows you, knows your heart? And even if they did, is there anything they would discover in you that you could take credit for? Isn’t everything you have and everything you are sheer gifts from God? So what’s the point of all this comparing and competing? You already have all you need. You already have more access to God than you can handle. Without bringing either Apollos or me into it, you’re sitting on top of the world—at least God’s world—and we’re right there, sitting alongside you!
  • Romans 2:25 - Circumcision, the surgical ritual that marks you as a Jew, is great if you live in accord with God’s law. But if you don’t, it’s worse than not being circumcised. The reverse is also true: The uncircumcised who keep God’s ways are as good as the circumcised—in fact, better. Better to keep God’s law uncircumcised than break it circumcised. Don’t you see: It’s not the cut of a knife that makes a Jew. You become a Jew by who you are. It’s the mark of God on your heart, not of a knife on your skin, that makes a Jew. And recognition comes from God, not legalistic critics. * * *
  • Acts 5:17 - Provoked mightily by all this, the Chief Priest and those on his side, mainly the sect of Sadducees, went into action, arrested the apostles and put them in the town jail. But during the night an angel of God opened the jailhouse door and led them out. He said, “Go to the Temple and take your stand. Tell the people everything there is to say about this Life.” Promptly obedient, they entered the Temple at daybreak and went on with their teaching.
  • 1 Peter 2:1 - So clean house! Make a clean sweep of malice and pretense, envy and hurtful talk. You’ve had a taste of God. Now, like infants at the breast, drink deep of God’s pure kindness. Then you’ll grow up mature and whole in God.
  • James 5:19 - My dear friends, if you know people who have wandered off from God’s truth, don’t write them off. Go after them. Get them back and you will have rescued precious lives from destruction and prevented an epidemic of wandering away from God.
  • Philippians 1:15 - It’s true that some here preach Christ because with me out of the way, they think they’ll step right into the spotlight. But the others do it with the best heart in the world. One group is motivated by pure love, knowing that I am here defending the Message, wanting to help. The others, now that I’m out of the picture, are merely greedy, hoping to get something out of it for themselves. Their motives are bad. They see me as their competition, and so the worse it goes for me, the better—they think—for them.
  • 2 Corinthians 12:20 - I do admit that I have fears that when I come you’ll disappoint me and I’ll disappoint you, and in frustration with each other everything will fall to pieces—quarrels, jealousy, flaring tempers, taking sides, angry words, vicious rumors, swelled heads, and general bedlam. I don’t look forward to a second humiliation by God among you, compounded by hot tears over that crowd that keeps sinning over and over in the same old ways, who refuse to turn away from the pigsty of evil, sexual disorder, and indecency in which they wallow.
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