Genesis 31:1

Bible in Basic English 1965

Now it came to the ears of Jacob that Laban's sons were saying, Jacob has taken away all our father's property, and in this way he has got all this wealth.

Cross References

Genesis 30:43

So Jacob's wealth was greatly increased; he had great flocks and women-servants and men-servants and camels and asses.

Genesis 31:2

And Jacob saw that Laban's feeling for him was no longer what it had been before.

Genesis 31:43

Then Laban, answering, said, These women are my daughters and these children my children, the flocks and all you see are mine: what now may I do for my daughters and for their children?

Genesis 45:13

Give my father word of all my glory in Egypt and of all you have seen; and come back quickly with my father.

Esther 5:11

And he gave them an account of the glories of his wealth, and the number of children he had, and the ways in which he had been honoured by the king, and how he had put him over the captains and servants of the king.

Job 31:31

If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?

Psalm 17:14

With your hand, O Lord, from men, even men of the world, whose heritage is in this life, and whom you make full with your secret wealth: they are full of children; after their death their offspring take the rest of their goods.

Psalm 57:4

My soul is among lions; I am stretched out among those who are on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and whose tongue is a sharp sword.

Proverbs 14:30

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

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?

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.

Isaiah 5:14

For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.

Jeremiah 9:23

This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:

Ezekiel 16:44

See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.

Matthew 4:8

Again, the Evil One took him up to a very high mountain, and let him see all the kingdoms of the world and the glory of them;

1 Timothy 6:4

He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,

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.

1 Peter 1:24

For it is said, All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flower of the grass. The grass becomes dry and the flower dead: