TSK · James 4:5

But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

He had so many sheep and cattle and such a great household of servants that the Philistines became jealous of him.

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

Moses said to him,“Are you jealous for me? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets, that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!”

In the camp they resented Moses, and Aaron, the LORD’s holy priest.

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.

Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

And again another scripture says,“They will look on the one whom they have pierced.”

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

Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?

And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, proclaimed the gospel to Abraham ahead of time, saying,“All the nations will be blessed in you.”