10 Bible Verses about Envy
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For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, inslaved to various desires and pleasures, living in wickedness and envy, hateful, hating one another:
Love suffereth long and is kind; love envieth not; love acteth not rashly, is not puffed up:
But the Jews who believed not, filled with zeal, taking to them some of the mean and profligate fellows, and making a mob, set all the city in an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, sought to bring them out to the people.
Some indeed preach Christ even through envy and strife; but some through good will.
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, enmities, contentions, emulations, wraths, strifes, divisions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of which I tell you before (as I have also told you in time past) that they who practise such things, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
He is puffed up, knowing nothing, but being sick of questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, contention, evil speakings,
Wherefore laying aside all wickedness, and all guile, and dissimulation, and envies, and all evil-speakings, As new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
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Envy » Forbidden
Love suffereth long and is kind; love envieth not; love acteth not rashly, is not puffed up:
Let us walk decently, as in the day; not in banqueting and drunken entertainments, not in uncleannesses and wantonness, not in strife and envy.
Be not desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Envy » Forbidden » Examples of
Envy » Who not to envy
Envy » Not envying
Let us walk decently, as in the day; not in banqueting and drunken entertainments, not in uncleannesses and wantonness, not in strife and envy.
Wherefore laying aside all wickedness, and all guile, and dissimulation, and envies,
Be not desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Envy » Prosperity of the wicked should not excite
Envy » A proof of carnal-mindedness
And I, brethren, could not speak to you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, as unto babes in Christ.
For ye are still carnal: for while there is among you emulation, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?
Envy » Instances of » Priests, of jesus
Then the chief priests and elders assembled a council and said, What do we?
(For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy) But the chief priests stirred up the people to desire,
Envy » What envy does
Envy » A work of the flesh
emulations, wraths, strifes, divisions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of which I tell you before (as I have also told you in time past) that they who practise such things, shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Do ye think, that the scripture saith in vain, The Spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth against envy?
Envy » Instances of » Joseph's brethren, of joseph
And the patriachs moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt; but God was with him,
Envy » Hurtful to the envious
Envy » Instances of » Korah, dathan, and abiram, of moses
Envy » Exemplified
But the Jews seeing the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and spake against the things spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
But the Jews who believed not, filled with zeal, taking to them some of the mean and profligate fellows, and making a mob, set all the city in an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, sought to bring them out to the people.
Envy » Instances of » Saul, of david
Envy » Instances of » Sarah, of hagar
Envy » Who has envy among them
For ye are still carnal: for while there is among you emulation, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk according to man?
Envy » Exemplified » Joshua
Envy » Excited by good deeds of others
Envy » Instances of » Jews, of paul and barnabas
But the Jews seeing the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and spake against the things spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.
But the Jews who believed not, filled with zeal, taking to them some of the mean and profligate fellows, and making a mob, set all the city in an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, sought to bring them out to the people.
Envy » Exemplified » Joseph's brethren
Envy » Exemplified » Edomites
Envy » Exemplified » saul
Envy » The place where envy exists
Who is a wise and knowing man among you? Let him shew by a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. But if ye have bitter zeal and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, animal, devilish. read more.
For where bitter zeal and strife is, there is unquietness and every evil work.
Envy » Produced by foolish disputations
He is puffed up, knowing nothing, but being sick of questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, contention, evil speakings,
Envy » Hinders growth in grace
Wherefore laying aside all wickedness, and all guile, and dissimulation, and envies, and all evil-speakings, As new born babes desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
Envy » None can stand before
Envy » Exemplified » Princes of babylon
Envy » Exemplified » Laban's sons
Envy » Punishment of
Envy » The wicked » Being Full of
Envy » Instances of » Joshua, of eldad and medad
Envy » Exemplified » Haman
Envy » Exemplified » Cain
Envy » Instances of » Miriam and aaron, of moses
Envy » Exemplified » Chief priests
(For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy) But the chief priests stirred up the people to desire,
Envy » Inconsistent with » The gospel
But if ye have bitter zeal and strife in your hearts, do not glory and lie against the truth.
Envy » Leads to every evil work
For where bitter zeal and strife is, there is unquietness and every evil work.
Envy » The wicked » Live in
For we also were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, inslaved to various desires and pleasures, living in wickedness and envy, hateful, hating one another:
Envy » What lusts to envy
Do ye think, that the scripture saith in vain, The Spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth against envy?
Envy » Instances of » Philistines, of isaac
Envy » Instances of » Leah, of rachel
Envy » Instances of » Cain, of abel
Envy » Instances of » Laban's sons, of jacob
Envy » Instances of » Haman, of mordecai
Envy » Instances of » Rachel, of leah
Envy » Instances of » The princes of babylon, of daniel
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1 Peter 2:1Wherefore laying aside all wickedness, and all guile, and dissimulation, and envies,
Envy, Example Of
Mark 15:10(For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy) But the chief priests stirred up the people to desire,
