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This week we trace envy through Genesis 43 and the wider Genesis story, then ask what happens in us when someone close gets favour we think they did not earn. We land on a counterintuitive cure: God’s mercy and forgiveness free us to celebrate others instead of comparing and resenting. 
• Joseph’s brothers returning to Egypt as a mirror for the heart 
• Envy in Genesis as a repeating family-pattern sin 
• Distinctions between coveting and envy as resentment toward a person 
• Shakespeare’s Iago line as a picture of envy’s ugliness 
• Cain and Abel as envy at another’s righteousness 
• James 3 on bitter envy producing disorder and every evil practice 
• Joseph’s “envy test” with Benjamin’s undeserved favour 
• Shalom and table fellowship as a sign of mercy 
• Paul’s question about receiving grace as an antidote to comparison 
• Luke 7 and the link between forgiveness and love