10 Bible Verses about Envy

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love makes no parade, is not puffed up,

Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy;

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

Let us live honestly, as in the day, Not in reveling and drunkenness, Not in lust and licentiousness, Not is strife and jealousy;

Therefore put away all malice, all deceit, insincerity, jealousy, and slander of every sort.

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

As for me, brothers, I could not talk to you as spiritual men, but as to creatures of flesh, mere babes in Christ.

You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings?

So the chief priests and Pharisees called a meeting of the Sanhedrin.

For he recognized that it was through spite that the high priests had handed him over.

He knew well that it was because of enmity that they had brought Jesus before him.

envy, drunkenness, revellings, and things like these. I tell you beforehand, as I have already told you, that those who practise such sins shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the Scripture says, "The spirit which has its home in us yearns over us unto jealousy?"

"The patriarchs out of jealousy sold Joseph into Egypt.

When they saw the crowds, the Jews were filled with jealousy, and began to contradict Paul's statements, and to abuse him.

But the Jews, moved with jealousy, called to their aid certain ill-favored and idle fellows, formed a mob, and began to set the town in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

You are not able even now, for you are still unspiritual. While there is among you jealousy and strife, are you not still unspiritual, and behaving like worldlings?

When they saw the crowds, the Jews were filled with jealousy, and began to contradict Paul's statements, and to abuse him.

But the Jews, moved with jealousy, called to their aid certain ill-favored and idle fellows, formed a mob, and began to set the town in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them out to the people.

Who among you is wise and intelligent? Let him show his deeds by his good life, in the meekness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth. Such wisdom is not that which is descending from on high, but is earthly, sensual, demonlike. read more.
For wherever jealousy and faction exist, there is confusion and every evil deed.

he is puffed up with conceit and knows nothing, but is doting about disputations and a strife of words. These give rise to envy, quarrels, railings, evil suspicions,

Therefore put away all malice, all deceit, insincerity, jealousy, and slander of every sort. Like new-born babes long for the pure spiritual milk to make you grow up into salvation;

They were overflowing with every kind of iniquity, depravity, greed, and malice. They were full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and malignity.

For he recognized that it was through spite that the high priests had handed him over.

But if you have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, do not be boasting of that, and be false to the truth.

For wherever jealousy and faction exist, there is confusion and every evil deed.

For we were ourselves once foolish, disobedient, deceived, slaving for various lusts and pleasures, passing our lives in malice and envy. We were hateful, and we hated one another.

Or do you suppose that it is in vain that the Scripture says, "The spirit which has its home in us yearns over us unto jealousy?"