based on the book Respectable Sins by Jerry Bridges
I. ENVY:
the painful and often time resentful awareness of an advantage enjoyed by someone else (Covetousness is nothing more than wanting that same advantage for ourselves.)
Conditions for Envy:
1. We tend to envy those with whom we most closely identify.
2. We tend to envy in them the areas we value most.
(We may not even want the better circumstance of our neighbor, we just resent their having them.)
Is it Serious?
Romans 1:28-29 And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God any longer, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do those things which are not proper, 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy…
Galatians 5:19-21Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are: immorality, impurity, sensuality, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, factions, 21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you just as I have forewarned you that those who practice such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
