10 Bible Verses about Envy

Social affection is patient, is kind; is a stranger to envy; is not insolently vain, nor arrogant: does not behave indecently,

let us behave with decency as in open view; not with rioting and drunkenness, not with lewdness and brutality, not with strife and envy.

let us not be vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

let us behave with decency as in open view; not with rioting and drunkenness, not with lewdness and brutality, not with strife and envy.

Renouncing therefore every kind of malice, and knavery, hypocrisy, envy, and detraction, as new-born infants desire that mystical milk,

let us not be vain-glorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

However, I could not speak to you, my brethren, as to the spiritual, or as to the dispassionate, but as to novices in christianity.

for you are still subject to your passions. since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part?

upon this the chief priests and the Pharisees being assembled in council, said, what shall we do? for this man performs many miracles.

for he perceived plainly, it was out of malice, that the chief priests had prosecuted him.

for he was sensible that they had delivered him up out of meer envy.

drunkenness, revellings, and such like, concerning which I forewarn you now, as heretofore I have done, that they who practise such vices, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

or do you imagine that passage of scripture to be insignificant, "does the spirit that dwells in you, incite you to vice?"

the patriarchs being jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt: but God was with him,

when the Jews saw such a crowd, they were fill'd with resentment, and oppos'd what Paul had advanc'd, even to blasphemy.

but the unbelieving Jews thro' envy, by the assistance of some loose strolers, rais'd a mob, set the whole city in an uproar, and attack'd Jason's house, thinking to find them there, and deliver them up to the populace.

for you are still subject to your passions. since envy, and strife, and divisions are among you, are you not actuated by the vices of the animal part?

when the Jews saw such a crowd, they were fill'd with resentment, and oppos'd what Paul had advanc'd, even to blasphemy.

but the unbelieving Jews thro' envy, by the assistance of some loose strolers, rais'd a mob, set the whole city in an uproar, and attack'd Jason's house, thinking to find them there, and deliver them up to the populace.

Whoever is a skilful moralist, let him show by his virtuous conduct, that he practises the humble precepts of wisdom. but if envy and contention imbitter your minds, don't think your false pretences can stand against the truth: such wisdom is not derived from heaven; but is terrestrial, sensual, demoniacal. read more.
where false zeal, and a spirit of contention reign, there confusion and every vice prevail.

he is full of pride and ignorance, touch'd with a spirit of chicanery and wrangling, productive of envy, contention, calumny,

Renouncing therefore every kind of malice, and knavery, hypocrisy, envy, and detraction, as new-born infants desire that mystical milk, which is without any mixture, and will make you thrive. Since you have tasted how good the Lord is,

they were full of all injustice, fornication, mischief, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, contention, fraud, malignity;

for he perceived plainly, it was out of malice, that the chief priests had prosecuted him.

but if envy and contention imbitter your minds, don't think your false pretences can stand against the truth:

where false zeal, and a spirit of contention reign, there confusion and every vice prevail.

for even we ourselves were once inconsiderate, disobedient, deluded, addicted to variety of passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, the deserving objects of mutual hatred.

or do you imagine that passage of scripture to be insignificant, "does the spirit that dwells in you, incite you to vice?"