Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

Bible References

Sound

Proverbs 4:23
Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life.
Psalm 119:80
May my heart be blameless in Your statutes,
So that I will not be ashamed.
2 Timothy 1:7
For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.

Envy

Job 5:2
“For anger slays the foolish man,
And jealousy kills the simple.
Psalm 112:10
The wicked will see it and be vexed,
He will gnash his teeth and melt away;
The desire of the wicked will perish.
Acts 7:9
“The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt. Yet God was with him,
Romans 1:29
being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, evil; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,
James 4:5
Or do you think that the Scripture speaks to no purpose: “He jealously desires the Spirit which He has made to dwell in us”?

Rottenness

Proverbs 3:8
It will be healing to your body
And refreshment to your bones.
Proverbs 12:4
An excellent wife is the crown of her husband,
But she who shames him is like rottenness in his bones.
Proverbs 17:22
A joyful heart is good medicine,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.