Jealous, jealousy
Envy is a capital vice. It refers to the sadness experienced in the face of another's good and the immoderate desire to appropriate it, even unjustly. When it wishes grave harm to the Neighbor, it is a mortal sin:
Saint Augustine saw envy as "the diabolical sin par excellence."[1] "From envy arise hatred, slander, the joy caused by the misfortune of the Neighbor, and the displeasure caused by his prosperity."[2]-[3]
In "The Gospel as It Was Revealed to Me"
- The jealousy crisis of Judas.[4]
- The jealous God: Of whom? Of what jealousy? The petty jealousy of small men? No, but the holy jealousy of God for his sons. The just jealousy. The loving jealousy. He created you. He loves you. He wants you.[5]
- Satan has worked on your male sensuality. In your wife, you saw an object of pleasure. An object of pleasure for you, you also judged her so for others, hence your feverish jealousy, your unfounded fear, your guilty tyranny which made her fearful, a prisoner, tortured, slandered.[6]
In fundamental Christian texts
In the Bible
- "For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, he is a jealous God!"[7]
In the catechism of the Catholic Church
- CEC 2539: Envy is a capital vice. It refers to the sadness experienced in the face of the good of others and the immoderate desire to appropriate it, even unjustly. When it wishes grave harm to the Neighbor, it is a mortal sin:
Saint Augustine saw envy as "the diabolical sin par excellence"[1]. "From envy arise hatred, slander, the joy caused by the misfortune of the Neighbor, and the displeasure caused by his prosperity."[2]
- CEC 2540: Envy represents one of the forms of sadness and thus a refusal of charity; the baptized will struggle against it through goodwill. Envy often comes from Pride; the baptized will train to live in humility:
Is it through you that you want to see God glorified? Eh well, rejoice in the progress of your brother, and thereby God will be glorified through you. God will be praised, it will be said, because his servant was able to overcome envy by placing his joy in the merits of others.[8][9]