Genesis 31:1

New International Version

Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken everything our father owned and has gained all this wealth from what belonged to our father.”

Cross References

Genesis 30:43

In this way the man grew exceedingly prosperous and came to own large flocks, and female and male servants, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 31:2

And Jacob noticed that Laban’s attitude toward him was not what it had been.

Genesis 31:43

Laban answered Jacob, “The women are my daughters, the children are my children, and the flocks are my flocks. All you see is mine. Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine, or about the children they have borne?

Genesis 45:13

Tell my father about all the honor accorded me in Egypt and about everything you have seen. And bring my father down here quickly.”

Esther 5:11

Haman boasted to them about his vast wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the other nobles and officials.

Job 31:31

if those of my household have never said, ‘Who has not been filled with Job’s meat?’—

Psalm 17:14

By your hand save me from such people, Lord, from those of this world whose reward is in this life. May what you have stored up for the wicked fill their bellies; may their children gorge themselves on it, and may there be leftovers for their little ones.

Psalm 57:4

I am in the midst of lions; I am forced to dwell among ravenous beasts— men whose teeth are spears and arrows, whose tongues are sharp swords.

Proverbs 14:30

A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

Proverbs 27:4

Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

Ecclesiastes 4:4

And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Isaiah 5:14

Therefore Death expands its jaws, opening wide its mouth; into it will descend their nobles and masses with all their brawlers and revelers.

Jeremiah 9:23

This is what the Lord says: “Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches,

Ezekiel 16:44

“ ‘Everyone who quotes proverbs will quote this proverb about you: “Like mother, like daughter.”

Matthew 4:8

Again, the devil took him to a very high mountain and showed him all the kingdoms of the world and their splendor.

1 Timothy 6:4

they are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions

Titus 3:3

At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another.

1 Peter 1:24

For, “All people are like grass, and all their glory is like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,