Jealousy & Strife
The mouth of the righteous speaks wisdom, And his tongue talks of justice. The law of his God is in his heart; None of his steps shall slide. - Psalm 37:30-31 NKJV
Do not strive with a man without cause, If he has done you no harm. - Proverbs 3:30 NKJV
There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. - Proverbs 14:12 NKJV
Do not go hastily to court; For what will you do in the end, When your neighbor has put you to shame?
- Proverbs 25:8 NKJV
Whoever has no rule over his own spirit Is like a city broken down, without walls. - Proverbs 25:28 NKJV
He who passes by and meddles in a quarrel not his own Is like one who takes a dog by the ears.
- Proverbs 26:17 NKJV
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who do not walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death. For what the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. - Romans 8:1-4 NKJV
For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. - Romans 8:6 NKJV
Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy. But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts. - Romans 13:13-14 NKJV
For you, brethren, have been called to liberty; only do not use liberty as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another. For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself." But if you bite and devour one another, beware lest you be consumed by one another! I say then: Walk in the Spirit, and you shall not fulfill the lust of the flesh. - Galatians 5:13-16 NKJV
Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies,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. - Galatians 5:19-21 NKJV
Do all things without complaining and disputing, that you may become blameless and harmless, children of God without fault in the midst of a crooked and perverse generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world, - Philippians 2:14-15 NKJV
But avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they generate strife. - 2 Timothy 2:23 NKJV
But avoid foolish disputes, genealogies, contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and useless. - Titus 3:9 NKJV
For where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there. - James 3:16 NKJV