Proverbs 14:30

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 12:4 : 4 ¶ A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones.
  • Prov 17:22 : 22 ¶ A merry heart doeth good [like] a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
  • Rom 1:29 : 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
  • Job 5:2 : 2 For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
  • Ps 112:10 : 10 The wicked shall see [it], and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
  • Prov 3:8 : 8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it [are] the issues of life.
  • Ps 119:80 : 80 ¶ Let my heart be sound in thy statutes; that I be not ashamed.
  • 2 Tim 1:7 : 7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
  • Jas 4:5 : 5 Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

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    29¶ [He that is] slow to wrath [is] of great understanding: but [he that is] hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

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    8It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.

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    2For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

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    4¶ A wholesome tongue [is] a tree of life: but perverseness therein [is] a breach in the spirit.

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    14But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

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    25¶ Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad.

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    18An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

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