THEOSISDeuteronomy 28:54Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
The man that is nice among you, and very delicate, shall envy his own brother, and his wife, that lieth in his bosom,
הָאִישׁ֙ הָרַ֣ךְ בְּךָ֔ וְהֶעָנֹ֖ג מְאֹ֑ד תֵּרַ֨ע עֵינ֤וֹ בְאָחִיו֙ וּבְאֵ֣שֶׁת חֵיק֔וֹ וּבְיֶ֥תֶר בָּנָ֖יו אֲשֶׁ֥ר יוֹתִֽיר׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Deut 15:9Beware lest perhaps a wicked thought steal in upon thee, and thou say in thy heart: The seventh year of remission draweth nigh; and thou turn away thy eyes from thy poor brother, denying to lend him that which he asketh: lest he cry against thee to the Lord, and it become a sin unto thee.
- Matt 20:15Or, is it not lawful for me to do what I will? Is thy eye evil, because I am good?
- Deut 13:6If thy brother the son of thy mother, or thy son, or daughter, or thy wife that is in thy bosom, or thy friend, whom thou lovest as thy own soul, would persuade thee secretly, saying: Let us go, and serve strange gods, which thou knowest not, nor thy fathers,
- Matt 7:9Or what man is there among you, of whom if his son shall ask bread, will he reach him a stone?
- Matt 7:11If you then being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children: how much more will your Father who is in heaven, give good things to them that ask him?
- 2 Sam 12:3But the poor man had nothing at all but one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up, and which had grown up in his house together with his children, eating of his bread, and drinking of his cup, and sleeping in his bosom: and it was unto him as a daughter.
- Mic 7:5Believe not a friend, and trust not in a prince: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that sleepeth in thy bosom.
- Luke 11:11And which of you, if he ask his father bread, will he give him a stone? Or a fish, will he for a fish give him a serpent?