And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

But covet earnestly the best gifts: and yet shew I unto you a more excellent way.

Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Follow after charity, and desire spiritual gifts, but rather that ye may prophesy.

Wherefore, brethren, covet to prophesy, and forbid not to speak with tongues.

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.

But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.