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EpIsTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS
II 3. All splendor and scope for expansion were bestowed upon you, and then the Scripture was fulfilled: ** The beloved ate and drank, and he waxed large and fat, and then he kicked out. 2 From this sprang jealousy and envy, strife and sedition, persecution and anarchy, war and captivity.
3 Then the dishonored rose up against the honored," the ignoble against the highly esteemed, the foolish against the wise, the young against their elders. 4 For this reason piety and peace are far removed, because everyone has abandoned the fear of God and lost the clear vision which faith affords, and nobody regulates his conduct by the norms of His commandments, or tries to make his life worthy of Christ. On the contrary, everyone follows the appetites of his depraved heart, for they have absorbed that unjust and unholy jealousy through which death came into the world."
4. For this is what the Scripture says: *® And after some days Cain offered to God a sacrifice from the fruits of the earth, and Abel, for his part, offered of the first-born of his flock and of their fat. 2 And God looked kindly on Abel and his gifts, but paid no attention to Cain and his sacrifices.
3 Then Cain was greatly disturbed, and his countenance fell.
4 And God said to Cain: " Why are you disturbed, and why has your countenance fallen? When you offer rightly, but do not rightly discriminate, do you not sin?*? 5 Be calm: to you it will return, and you shall dispose of it." 6 And Cain said to his brother Abel: " Let us go out into the field." And this is what happened when they were in the field: Cain set wpon his brother Abel and slew him. 7 You see, brethren, jealousy and envy brought on fratricide. 8 Jealousy was the reason for our father Jacob's flight from his brother Esau.™ 9 Jealousy caused Joseph to be persecuted with deadly intent and finally to end in servitude.
10 Jealousy compelled Moses to flee