Category: Envy
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Love Rejoices in Truth.
The passage from 1 Corinthians 13:6 teaches that love does not rejoice in unrighteousness but in truth. It challenges us to examine our reactions to others’ blessings and confronts envy and bitterness. True love rejoices in integrity, honesty, and selflessness, never finding pleasure in others’ failures.
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Love Keeps No Record of Wrongs
Love does not nurse resentment of others who have wronged us. When we fixate on how we have been wronged, our anger takes on a life of its own and becomes disproportionate to the original offence.
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Love does not Envy.
So Paul listed that love is patient and kind, then he hits the first characteristic love is not: envious. What is envy? Desiring what is not yours. Fear of loosing something. Painful or resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by another joined with desire to posses the same. The Greek…
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