10 Bible Verses about Envy

Charity beareth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity is not insolent, is not puffed up,

Let us behave decently as being in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lasciviousness, not in strife and envying.

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

Let us behave decently as being in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lasciviousness, not in strife and envying.

Therefore laying aside all malice, and all deceit, and hypocrisies,

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

And I, my brethren, could not speak to you, as to spiritual persons, but as to carnal ones, even as to babes in Christ.

Because ye are still carnal: for while there is among you envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?

Therefore the chief priests and the pharisees held a council and said, What are we doing? for this man worketh many miracles.

(for he knew that the chief priests had delivered Him up to him out of envy:)

Barabbas, or Jesus, who is called Christ? for he knew that out of envy they had delivered Him up.

heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and the like: of which I forewarn you, as I have also told you before, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Do ye think the scripture speaks in vain? or does the Spirit that dwelleth in us, excite to envy?

And the patriarchs, envying him, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, opposing and reviling him.

But the unbelieving Jews being filled with envy, collected some loose profligate fellows, and making a tumult set all the city in an uproar: and assaulting Jason's house, they sought for them in order to bring them out to the populace.

Because ye are still carnal: for while there is among you envy and strife and divisions, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk as men?

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, opposing and reviling him.

But the unbelieving Jews being filled with envy, collected some loose profligate fellows, and making a tumult set all the city in an uproar: and assaulting Jason's house, they sought for them in order to bring them out to the populace.

Is there any wise and understanding man among you? let him shew his works by a good conversation in the meekness of wisdom: but if ye have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth; this is not the wisdom, that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and diabolical: read more.
for where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

he is proud, knowing nothing, but is delirious about questions and strifes of words: from which cometh envy, contention, calumnies, wicked suspicions, perverse debates of men corrupted in mind,

Therefore laying aside all malice, and all deceit, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings, as new-born babes desire that rational milk which is without guile, that ye may grow thereby:

being filled with all injustice, lewdness, wickedness, covetousness, malignity; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and every evil habit; whisperers,

(for he knew that the chief priests had delivered Him up to him out of envy:)

but if ye have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, do not boast and lie against the truth;

for where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

For we also were formerly foolish, disobedient, going astray, enslaved to various disorderly appetites and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

Do ye think the scripture speaks in vain? or does the Spirit that dwelleth in us, excite to envy?