The third pattern concerns excessive greed for wealth, envy and rancor. Greed makes acquisition of advantage excessive; envy may involve wishing another person's blessing removed; rancor sustains hostility in the heart. These are distinct moral defects that can reinforce each other.
For example, a colleague's legitimate success may provoke envy, which develops into resentment and culminates in a false accusation. The sequence moves from an inward motive to an outward act of harm.
These attitudes can also impoverish the inward experience of worship. Correcting them requires more than honest financial dealings: the person must examine the desires, rivalry and resentment that drive choices and disturb the moral life.