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Envy

February 23, 2025

Message Notes

Thomas Aquinas – Sorrow at someone else’s goodΒ 
I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength. Philippians 4:12-13
β€œContentment means being satisfied and at rest with where God has you, despite what’s happening around you.”
Tony Evans Β 
When the LORD saw that Leah was not loved, he enabled her to conceive, but Rachel remained childless.
Β Genesis 29:31
Now when Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister, and said to Jacob, β€œGive me children, or else I die!”
Genesis 30:1Β  Β 
Then she said, β€œHere is Bilhah, my servant. Sleep with her so that she can bear children for me and I too can build a family through her.”
Genesis 30:3Β  Β 
β€œWhat comes out of a person is what defiles them. For it is from within, out of a person’s heart, that evil thoughts comeβ€”sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and defile a person.”
Β Mark 7:22 Β 
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.
1 Peter 2:1 Β 
Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.
Galatians 5:26 Β 
Kish had a son named Saul, as handsome a young man as could be found anywhere in Israel, and he was a head taller than anyone else.
1 Samuel 9:2 Β 
Saul answered, β€œBut am I not a Benjamite, from the smallest tribe of Israel, and is not my clan the least of all the clans of the tribe of Benjamin? Why do you say such a thing to me?”
1 Samuel 9:21 Β 
Now go, attack the Amalekites and totally destroy all that belongs to them.
1 Samuel 15:3Β 
But Saul and the army spared Agag and the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambsβ€”everything that was good.
1 Samuel 15:9Β 
Saul was very angry; this refrain displeased him greatly. β€œThey have credited David with tens of thousands,” he thought, β€œbut me with only thousands. What more can he get but the kingdom?” And from that time on Saul kept a close eye on David.
1 Samuel 18:8 Β 
β€œI saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.”
Ecclesiastes 4:6 Β 
Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:6 Β 
A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
Proverbs 14:30Β 
Praise the Lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
Psalm 103:1Β 
Praise the Lord, my soul, and forget not all his benefits
Psalm 103:1-2 Β 
Β The Lord works righteousness and justice for all the oppressed.
Psalm 103:6
For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; as far as the east is from the west so far has he removed our transgressions from us.
Psalm 103:11-12 Β 
Praise the Lord, all his works everywhere in his dominion. Praise the Lord, my soul. Psalm 103:22

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