Genesis 38:9

New International Version

But Onan knew that the child would not be his; so whenever he slept with his brother’s wife, he spilled his semen on the ground to keep from providing offspring for his brother.

Cross References

Genesis 38:10

What he did was wicked in the Lord’s sight; so the Lord put him to death also.

Job 5:2

Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple.

Proverbs 27:4

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

Deuteronomy 25:5

If brothers are living together and one of them dies without a son, his widow must not marry outside the family. Her husband’s brother shall take her and marry her and fulfill the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

Deuteronomy 25:6

The first son she bears shall carry on the name of the dead brother so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.

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.

James 3:14

But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.

James 3:16

For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

James 4:5

Or do you think Scripture says without reason that he jealously longs for the spirit he has caused to dwell in us?

Ruth 1:11

But Naomi said, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you come with me? Am I going to have any more sons, who could become your husbands?

Ruth 4:10

I have also acquired Ruth the Moabite, Mahlon’s widow, as my wife, in order to maintain the name of the dead with his property, so that his name will not disappear from among his family or from his hometown. Today you are witnesses!”