Or do you imagine that scripture has no meaning when it says, “God yearns jealously over the spirit that he has placed in us”?

For once we ourselves also were foolish, disobedient, being led astray, being enslaved by desires and various pleasures, living a life of evil and envy (phthonō | φθόνῳ | dat sg masc), detestable, hating one another.

he is puffed up with conceit, understanding nothing, but has a sickly craving for speculations and fights about words out of which come envy (phthonos | φθόνος | nom sg masc), strife, slanders, evil suspicions,

To be sure, some are proclaiming Christ out of envy (phthonon | φθόνον | acc sg masc) and strife, but others out of goodwill.

envyings (phthonoi | φθόνοι | nom pl masc), drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before: those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!

They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy (phthonou | φθόνου | gen sg masc), murder, strife, deceit, meanness. They are gossips,

For he knew that the ruling priests had handed Jesus over out of envy (phthonon | φθόνον | acc sg masc).

For he knew that it was out of envy (phthonon | φθόνον | acc sg masc) that they had handed him over.

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being (phthonountes | φθονοῦντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) jealous (phthonountes | φθονοῦντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) of (phthonountes | φθονοῦντες | pres act ptcp nom pl masc) one another.

It is the same with lifeless things that produce sound, whether flute or harp; if they do not make a difference between notes (phthongois | φθόγγοις | dat pl masc), how will what is being played on the flute or the harp be understood?