Tag: jealousy
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No Room for Envy – Genesis 45:21-22
Genesis 45:21, 22 And the children of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way. To all of them he gave each man changes of raiment; but to Benjamin he gave three hundred pieces of silver, and five changes of raiment. This…
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The Test of Another Man’s Blessing – Genesis 43:34
Genesis 43:34 And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin’s mess was five times so much as any of theirs… And they drank, and were merry with him. Joseph gave Benjamin five times more than the rest. That was not random. I think Joseph was watching them. Years earlier, when…
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Love Does Not Smirk – 1 John 3:11-12
1 John 3:11-12 For this is the message that ye heard from the beginning, that we should love one another. Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his brother.And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous. John says this is not a new message.…