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"To have envy and strife in your heart and not acted it out is not a sin"
📖 Related Verses (11)
1Corinthians 13:4 "Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,"
1Corinthians 13:5 "Does not behave itself rudely, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, keeps no record of evil;"
1Peter 1:22 "Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently:"
1Timothy 1:5 "Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:"
2Chronicles 16:9 "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly: therefore from now on you shall have wars."
James 3:14 "But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not, and lie not against the truth."
James 3:16 "For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work."
Matthew 5:22 "
Matthew 5:28 "
Proverbs 27:4 "Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but which is able to stand before jealousy?"
Song of solomon 2:15 "Catch us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes."
The seemingly harmful thoughts are as evil as the obvious acts of sin.
"If I think of and will something evil and not acted it out, it is ok"
📖 Related Verses (12)
1Corinthians 13:4 "Love suffers long, and is kind; love envies not; love vaunts not itself, is not puffed up,"
1Corinthians 13:5 "Does not behave itself rudely, seeks not her own, is not easily provoked, keeps no record of evil;"
1Peter 1:22 "Seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto sincere love of the brethren, see that you love one another with a pure heart fervently:"
it is not just about clean acts but clean hearts from which truly clean acts emerges. Ac that are truly clean can only emerge from clean hearts
1Samuel 16:7 "But the LORD said unto Samuel,
God judges man primarily according to the condition of his heart
1Timothy 1:5 "Now the end of the commandment is love out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:"
God weighs pure hearts as equal to pure acts.
2Chronicles 16:9 "For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. In this you have done foolishly: therefore from now on you shall have wars."
James 3:14 "But if you have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, boast not, and lie not against the truth."
your actions needs to be true to/correspond to your heart in order for it to be okay.
James 3:16 "For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work."
The condition of the heart is most important because it is the source of every evil work.
Matthew 5:22 "
Matthew 5:28 "
Sin is not only manifest in wrong actions but also in wrong intentions
Proverbs 27:4 "Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but which is able to stand before jealousy?"
The unseen filth of the heart can be more dangerous than the obvious acts of sin
Song of solomon 2:15 "Catch us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes."
The seemingly harmless thoughts are as evil as the obvious acts of sin.
God sees pure hearts as equal to pure acts.