Genesis 30:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living.

Cross References

Genesis 29:31

Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.

Genesis 37:11

And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind.

1 Kings 19:4

While he himself went a day's journey into the waste land, and took a seat under a broom-plant, desiring for himself only death; for he said, It is enough: now, O Lord, take away my life, for I am no better than my fathers.

Job 13:19

Is any one able to take up the argument against me? If so, I would keep quiet and give up my breath.

Job 3:11

Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

Job 5:2

For wrath is the cause of death to the foolish, and he who has no wisdom comes to his end through passion.

Psalm 106:16

They were full of envy against Moses among the tents, and against Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.

Proverbs 14:30

A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.

Proverbs 30:16

The underworld, and the woman without a child; the earth which never has enough water, and the fire which never says, Enough.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

Numbers 11:15

If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.

Numbers 11:29

And Moses said to him, Are you moved by envy on my account? If only all the Lord's people were prophets, and the Lord might put his spirit on them!

John 4:3

He went out of Judaea into Galilee again.

John 4:8

For his disciples had gone to the town to get food.

1 Corinthians 3:3

Because you are still in the flesh: for when there is envy and division among you, are you not still walking after the way of the flesh, even as natural men?

2 Corinthians 7:10

For the sorrow which God gives is the cause of salvation through a change of heart, in which there is no reason for grief: but the sorrow of the world is a cause of death.

Galatians 5:21

Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.

Titus 3:3

For in the past we were foolish, hard in heart, turned from the true way, servants of evil desires and pleasures, living in bad feeling and envy, hated and hating one another.

James 3:14

But if you have bitter envy in your heart and the desire to get the better of others, have no pride in this, talking falsely against what is true.

James 4:5

Or does it seem to you that it is for nothing that the holy Writings say, The spirit which God put into our hearts has a strong desire for us?

1 Samuel 1:10

And with grief in her soul, weeping bitterly, she made her prayer to the Lord.