Genesis 31:1

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Jacob heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, 'Jacob has taken all that belonged to our father and has acquired all this wealth from what was our father’s.'

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  • Eccl 4:4 : 4 And I saw that all toil and all skill in work are driven by one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
  • Isa 5:14 : 14 Therefore Sheol has enlarged its appetite and opened its mouth wide without limit. Into it will descend its splendor, its multitude, its uproar, and those who revel in it.
  • Jer 9:23 : 23 But let the one who boasts boast in this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord who exercises kindness, justice, and righteousness on the earth, for in these things I delight, declares the Lord.
  • Ezek 16:44 : 44 Everyone who uses proverbs will use this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
  • Matt 4:8 : 8 Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory.
  • 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 he is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. Instead, he has an unhealthy interest in controversies and arguments about words, which result in envy, strife, slander, and evil suspicions.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
  • 1 Pet 1:24 : 24 For, "All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and the flower falls off,
  • Gen 31:8-9 : 8 If he said, ‘The speckled ones will be your wages,’ then the flock bore speckled young. And if he said, ‘The streaked ones will be your wages,’ then the flock bore streaked young. 9 So God has taken away your father’s livestock and given it to me.
  • Gen 45:13 : 13 Tell my father about all the honor that I have in Egypt and everything you have seen. Hurry and bring my father down here.
  • Esth 5:11 : 11 Haman recounted to them the splendor of his wealth, the number of his sons, and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the officials and servants of the king.
  • Job 31:24-25 : 24 If I have made gold my trust or called fine gold my security, 25 if I rejoiced because my wealth was abundant or because my hand had obtained much,
  • Job 31:31 : 31 if those of my household have never said, ‘Who has not been satisfied with Job’s meat?’
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 By your hand, Lord, save me from people of this world whose reward is in this life. Fill their bellies with what you have stored up; let their children be satisfied, and let them leave their wealth to their little ones.
  • Ps 49:16-17 : 16 But God will redeem my soul from the power of Sheol, for He will receive me. Selah. 17 Do not be afraid when a man grows rich, when the glory of his house increases.
  • Ps 57:4 : 4 He will send help from heaven and save me; He reproaches those who pursue me. Selah. God will send His steadfast love and His faithfulness.
  • Ps 64:3-4 : 3 Hide me from the secret counsel of evildoers, from the tumult of those who practice wickedness. 4 They sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their words like bitter arrows.
  • Ps 120:3-5 : 3 What will He give you, and what more will He do to you, deceitful tongue? 4 Sharp arrows of a warrior, along with burning coals of the broom tree. 5 Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, and live among the tents of Kedar.
  • Prov 14:30 : 30 A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
  • Prov 27:4 : 4 Wrath is cruel and anger is a flood, but who can stand before jealousy?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Gen 31:2
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    2Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was no longer the same as it had been before.

  • Gen 31:42-43
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    42If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac had not been with me, you would surely have sent me away empty-handed. But God has seen my hardship and the toil of my hands, and last night he rebuked you.

    43Laban answered Jacob, 'The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or about the children they have borne?

  • Gen 31:25-26
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    25Laban caught up with Jacob. Now Jacob had pitched his tent in the hill country, and Laban and his relatives camped in the hill country of Gilead.

    26Then Laban said to Jacob, 'What have you done? You deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives taken in war.

  • Gen 31:14-16
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    14Then Rachel and Leah replied to him, 'Do we still have any portion or inheritance in our father’s house?

    15Does he not regard us as foreigners? For he has sold us and has even spent what was paid for us.

    16Surely all the wealth that God took away from our father belongs to us and our children. So do whatever God has told you to do.'

  • Gen 31:36-37
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    36Then Jacob became angry and confronted Laban. 'What is my crime?' he asked. 'What sin have I committed that you have pursued me?

    37You have searched through all my belongings. What have you found that belongs to your household? Place it here in front of my relatives and yours, and let them judge between us.

  • Gen 31:18-20
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    18He drove all his livestock and all the possessions he had acquired in Paddan Aram to go to his father Isaac in the land of Canaan.

    19Meanwhile, Laban had gone to shear his sheep, and Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

    20Jacob deceived Laban the Aramean by not telling him that he was fleeing.

  • Gen 31:12
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    12He said, 'Look up and see that all the male goats mating with the flock are streaked, speckled, and spotted, because I have seen all that Laban has been doing to you.

  • Gen 31:30-33
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    76%

    30Now you have gone off because you longed to return to your father’s household. But why did you steal my gods?

    31Jacob answered Laban, 'I was afraid, because I thought you would take your daughters away from me by force.

    32But if you find anyone who has your gods, that person shall not live. In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself whether anything of yours is here with me; and if so, take it.' Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the gods.

    33So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two female servants, but he found nothing. After he left Leah’s tent, he entered Rachel’s tent.

  • Gen 27:35-36
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    35But Isaac said, 'Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.'

    36Esau said, 'Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice: He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing!' Then he asked, 'Haven't you reserved any blessing for me?'

  • Gen 31:9
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    9So God has taken away your father’s livestock and given it to me.

  • Gen 31:5
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    5He said to them, 'I see that your father’s attitude toward me is not as it was before, but the God of my father has been with me.'

  • Gen 31:51
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    51Laban also said to Jacob, 'Here is the heap, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.

  • Gen 29:13
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    13When Laban heard the news about Jacob, his sister's son, he ran to meet him, embraced him, kissed him, and brought him to his house. Jacob told Laban everything that had happened.

  • Gen 30:34
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    34Laban said, 'Very well, let it be as you have said.'

  • Gen 29:15
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    15Laban said to Jacob, 'Because you are my relative, should you work for me for nothing? Tell me, what should your wages be?'

  • Gen 42:29
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    29When they came to Jacob, their father, in the land of Canaan, they told him all that had happened to them.

  • Gen 31:22
    72%

    22On the third day, Laban was informed that Jacob had fled.