Testament of Simeon

Chapter 3

  1. 1 And now, my children, hearken unto me and beware of the spirit of deceit and envy. For envy ruleth over the whole mind of a man, and suffereth him neither to eat nor to drink, nor to do any
  2. 3 good thing. But it ever suggesteth (to him) to destroy him that he envieth; and so long as he that
  3. 4 is envied flourisheth, he that envieth fadeth away. Two years therefore I afflicted my soul with fasting in the fear of the Lord, and I learnt that deliverance from envy cometh by the fear of God.
  4. 5 For if a man flee to the Lord, the evil spirit runneth away from him, and his mind is lightened.
  5. 6 And henceforward he sympathiseth with him whom he envied and forgiveth those who are hostile to him, and so ceaseth from his envy.