His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.
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TSK · Acts 13:45
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Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
"Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.
But some of those who were of the synagogue called "The Libertines," and of the Cyrenians, of the Alexandrians, and of those of Cilicia and Asia arose, disputing with Stephen.
When they opposed him and blasphemed, he shook out his clothing and said to them, "Your blood be on your own heads! I am clean. From now on, I will go to the Gentiles!"
being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.
They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming: