Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Pro 3:31Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Phrase of Scripture   Correlating Passages TSK Help

Envy   Pro 23:17; Pro 24:1,19,20; Psa 37:1,7-9; Psa 73:3; Gal 5:21
the oppressor   Heb. a man of violence. Ecc 5:8
choose   Pro 1:15-18; Pro 2:12-15; Pro 12:12; Pro 22:22-25
Correlating Passages
Envy
Pro 23:17 Let not thine heart envy sinners: but [be thou] in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Pro 24:1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Pro 24:19 Fret not thyself because of evil [men], neither be thou envious at the wicked;
Pro 24:20 For there shall be no reward to the evil [man]; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
Psa 37:1 [[[A Psalm] of David.]] Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
Psa 37:7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.
Psa 37:8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil.
Psa 37:9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the LORD, they shall inherit the earth.
Psa 73:3 For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Gal 5:21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
the oppressor
Ecc 5:8 If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for [he that is] higher than the highest regardeth; and [there be] higher than they.
choose
Pro 1:15 My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
Pro 1:16 For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
Pro 1:17 Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
Pro 1:18 And they lay wait for their [own] blood; they lurk privily for their [own] lives.
Pro 2:12 To deliver thee from the way of the evil [man], from the man that speaketh froward things;
Pro 2:13 Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;
Pro 2:14 Who rejoice to do evil, [and] delight in the frowardness of the wicked;
Pro 2:15 Whose ways [are] crooked, and [they] froward in their paths:
Pro 12:12 The wicked desireth the net of evil [men]: but the root of the righteous yieldeth [fruit].
Pro 22:22 Rob not the poor, because he [is] poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:
Pro 22:23 For the LORD will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.
Pro 22:24 Make no friendship with an angry man; and with a furious man thou shalt not go:
Pro 22:25 Lest thou learn his ways, and get a snare to thy soul.

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Scott, Thomas. "Proverbs 3:31," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
<http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Pro/3/31.html>.

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