'Envy' in the Bible

and he hath possession of a flock, and possession of a herd, and an abundant service; and the Philistines envy him,

Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living.

And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind.

And Moses said to him, Are you moved by envy on my account? If only all the Lord's people were prophets, and the Lord might put his spirit on them!

Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?

And from that day Saul was looking with envy on David.

For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

Davidic.Do not be agitated by evildoers;do not envy those who do wrong.

Why gaze with envy, you mountain peaks,at the mountain God desired for His dwelling?The Lord will live there forever!

Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.

They were full of envy against Moses among the tents, and against Aaron, the holy one of the Lord.

The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

Don’t envy evil menor desire to be with them,

Don’t be agitated by evildoers,and don’t envy the wicked.

Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

Then I examined all sorts of work, including all kinds of excellent achievements that create envy in others. This also is pointless and chasing after the wind.

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

LORD, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.

And he put out the form of a hand and took me by the hair of my head; and the wind, lifting me up between the earth and the heaven, took me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the way into the inner door facing to the north; where was the seat of the image of envy.

Then he said to me, Son of man, now let your eyes be lifted up in the direction of the north; and on looking in the direction of the north, to the north of the doorway of the altar, I saw this image of envy by the way in.

Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that are in the garden of God.

Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.

For this cause the Lord has said: Truly, in the heat of my bitter feeling I have said things against the rest of the nations and against all Edom, who have taken my land as a heritage for themselves with the joy of all their heart, and with bitter envy of soul have made attacks on it:

For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

adultery, greed, wickedness, cheating, shameless lust, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.

For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.

But the high priest and those who were with him (the Sadducees) were full of envy,

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

For I see you are in {a state of bitter envy} and {bound by unrighteousness}."

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

But I say, Had Israel no knowledge? First Moses says, You will be moved to envy by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish people I will make you angry.

So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.

If in any way those who are of my flesh may be moved to envy, so that some of them may get salvation by me.

With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.

because you are still fleshly. For since there is envy and strife among you, are you not fleshly and living like unbelievers?

Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

Love is patient, love is kind.Love does not envy,is not boastful, is not conceited,

envy, drunkenness, carousing, and anything similar. I tell you about these things in advance—as I told you before—that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;

Then put to death your bodies which are of the earth; wrong use of the flesh, unclean things, passion, evil desires and envy, which is the worship of strange gods;

He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t brag and deny the truth.

For where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every kind of evil.

Ye lust and have not: ye kill and are full of envy, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not.

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.

Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;