The sin of envy has been placed by Western theologians among the list of Seven Deadly Sins, meaning envy is not simply a particular sin, like an individual weed, but a vice, like a crawling vine that takes over the yard. This is why Rebecca DeYoung says that envy is not so much like a broken arm but cancer, a cancer fueled, not by sugar, but by pride. This Sunday we will consider from 1 Corinthians 13 that "love...does not envy."

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