Genesis 31:1 Cross References
Genesis 31:1
1: But Jacob soon learned that Laban's sons were beginning to grumble. "Jacob has robbed our father!" they said. "All his wealth has been gained at our father's expense."
Ecclesiastes 4:4
- Then I observed that most people are motivated to success by their envy of their neighbors. But this, too, is meaningless, like chasing the wind.
1 Timothy 6:4
- Anyone who teaches anything different is both conceited and ignorant. Such a person has an unhealthy desire to quibble over the meaning of words. This stirs up arguments ending in jealousy, fighting, slander, and evil suspicions.
Job 31:31
- My servants have never let others go hungry.
Psalms 120:3
- O deceptive tongue, what will God do to you? How will he increase your punishment?
- You will be pierced with sharp arrows and burned with glowing coals.
- How I suffer among these scoundrels of Meshech! It pains me to live with these people from Kedar!
Psalms 17:14
- Save me by your mighty hand, O LORD, from those whose only concern is earthly gain. May they have their punishment in full. May their children inherit more of the same, and may the judgment continue to their children's children.
Ezekiel 16:44
- Everyone who makes up proverbs will say of you, `Like mother, like daughter.'
Genesis 31:8
- For if he said the speckled animals were mine, the whole flock began to produce speckled lambs. And when he changed his mind and said I could have the streaked ones, then all the lambs were born streaked.
- In this way, God has made me wealthy at your father's expense.
Matthew 4:8
- Next the Devil took him to the peak of a very high mountain and showed him the nations of the world and all their glory.
Jeremiah 9:23
- This is what the LORD says: "Let not the wise man gloat in his wisdom, or the mighty man in his might, or the rich man in his riches.
Esther 5:11
- and boasted to them about his great wealth and his many children. He bragged about the honors the king had given him and how he had been promoted over all the other officials and leaders.
Proverbs 27:4
- Anger is cruel, and wrath is like a flood, but who can survive the destructiveness of jealousy?
Genesis 45:13
- Tell my father how I am honored here in Egypt. Tell him about everything you have seen, and bring him to me quickly."
Titus 3:3
- Once we, too, were foolish and disobedient. We were misled by others and became slaves to many wicked desires and evil pleasures. Our lives were full of evil and envy. We hated others, and they hated us.
Psalms 64:3
- Sharp tongues are the swords they wield; bitter words are the arrows they aim.
- They shoot from ambush at the innocent, attacking suddenly and fearlessly.
Isaiah 5:14
- The grave is licking its chops in anticipation of Jerusalem, this delicious morsel. Her great and lowly will be swallowed up, with all her drunken crowds.
Job 31:24
- "Have I put my trust in money or felt secure because of my gold?
- Does my happiness depend on my wealth and all that I own?
Psalms 57:4
- I am surrounded by fierce lions who greedily devour human prey--whose teeth pierce like spears and arrows, and whose tongues cut like swords.
Psalms 49:16
- So don't be dismayed when the wicked grow rich, and their homes become ever more splendid.
- For when they die, they carry nothing with them. Their wealth will not follow them into the grave.
1 Peter 1:24
- As the prophet says, "People are like grass that dies away; their beauty fades as quickly as the beauty of wildflowers. The grass withers, and the flowers fall away.
Proverbs 14:30
- A relaxed attitude lengthens life; jealousy rots it away.