TSK · Acts 13:45

His brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what Joseph said.

Labor Motivated by Envy Then I considered all the skillful work that is done: Surely it is nothing more than competition between one person and another. This also is profitless– like chasing the wind.

“But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

“Now his older son was in the field. As he came and approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

But some men from the Synagogue of the Freedmen(as it was called), both Cyrenians and Alexandrians, as well as some from Cilicia and the province of Asia, stood up and argued with Stephen.

When they opposed him and reviled him, he protested by shaking out his clothes and said to them,“Your blood be on your own heads! I am guiltless! From now on I will go to the Gentiles!”

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,

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!

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfishness in your hearts, do not boast and tell lies against the truth.

So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.