The Difference Between Envy & Malice, And What To Do With Them

Envy is easy to recognize in someone else and almost impossible to see in yourself. Left unchecked, it doesn't stay where it started.

Pastor Jeff Cramer opens Genesis 37 with Joseph at 17 — favored son, dreamer, thoroughly despised by his brothers. Jeff traces the progression from envy to malice to a murder plot, and defines both with uncomfortable precision: envy is the inward pain when someone else succeeds; malice is the inward satisfaction when they fail. God's plan threads through all of it anyway.