16 Bible Verses about Envy, Example Of

And to Cain and to his offering he looked not: and Cain will be very angry, and his countenance will fall.

And there will be to him possession of flocks, and possession of oxen, and service of many; and the Philistines will envy him.

And he will hear the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob took all which was to our father, and from what was to our father he made all this multitude.

And his brethren will envy him; and his father observed the word.

And Joshua, son of Nun, serving Moses from his chosen, will answer and say, My lord Moses, restrain them. And Moses will say to him, Thou envying for me; and who will give all the people of Jehovah prophets? when Jehovah will give his spirit upon them.

And they will say, Did Jehovah only now speak by Moses? Did he not also speak by us? And Jehovah will hear.

And they will gather together against Moses, and against Aaron, and they will say to them, Much to you for all the assembly, all of them are holy, and Jehovah in the midst of them: and wherefore shall be lifted up over the gathering of Jehovah?

And they will be jealous. against Moses in the camp, against Aaron the holy of Jehovah.

And it will kindle to Saul greatly, and this word will be evil in his eyes; and he will say, They gave to David ten thousands and to me they gave thousands, and yet to him but the kingdom.

And Sanballat the Horonite will hear, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, and it will be evil to them a great evil that a man came to seek good for the sons of Israel.

And all this was not an equivalent to me in all the time which I see Mordecai the Jew sitting in the king's gate.

For this, I live, says the Lord Jehovah, and I did according to thine anger and according to thine envy which thou didst in thy hatred against them; and I was known among them according to that I will judge thee.

Then this Daniel excelling above the presidents and satraps because that an excellent spirit was in him; and the king doing to set him up over all the kingdom. Then the presidents and satraps were seeking to find a pretext against Daniel from the part of the kingdom; and they will not be able to find any pretext and corruption, because that he was faithful, and any error and corruption was not found upon him.

For he knew that through envy the chief priests had delivered him up:

And the Jews, having seen the crowds, were filled with envy, and spake against the things said by Paul, contradicting and defaming.

And the unbelieving Jews, having been jealous, and having taken certain evil men of the vulgar, and excited to tumult, they disturbed the city by loud noise, and having stood against the house of Jason, they sought to bring them to the populace.