Proverbs 14:30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³⁰ A tranquil mind gives life to the flesh, but jealousy makes the bones rot.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁰ A sound heart is the life of the flesh: But envy the rottenness of the bones.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁰ A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of the body, but envy, jealousy, and wrath are like rottenness of the bones.

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁰ A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh; But envy is the rottenness of the bones.

Common English Bible

³⁰ A peaceful mind gives life to the body, but jealousy rots the bones.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁰ The well-being of the heart is life for the flesh. But envy is decay for the bones.

Proverbs 14:30 Cross References

Proverbs 17:22

A cheerful heart is a good medicine, but a downcast spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 3:8

It will be a healing for your flesh and a refreshment for your body.

Job 5:2

Surely vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

Proverbs 12:4

A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 4:23

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

2 Timothy 1:7

for God did not give us a spirit of cowardice but rather a spirit of power and of love and of self-discipline.

Romans 1:29

They were filled with every kind of injustice, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips,

Psalm 119:80

May my heart be blameless in your statutes, so that I may not be put to shame.

Psalm 112:10

The wicked see it and are angry; they gnash their teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked comes to nothing.

James 4:5

Or do you suppose that the scripture speaks to no purpose? Does the spirit that God caused to dwell in us desire envy?

Acts 7:9

“The patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him

Proverbs 15:13

A glad heart makes a cheerful countenance, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is broken.

Habakkuk 3:16

I hear, and I tremble within; my lips quiver at the sound. Rottenness enters into my bones, and my steps tremble beneath me. I wait quietly for the day of calamity to come upon the people who attack us.

1 Kings 21:6

He said to her, “Because I spoke to Naboth the Jezreelite and said to him, ‘Give me your vineyard for money, or if you prefer, I will give you another vineyard for it,’ but he answered, ‘I will not give you my vineyard.’ ”