Bible Verses About Envy

"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud."

"and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God."

"Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other."

"Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways,"

"Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind."

"he is conceited and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions"

"And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind."

"But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth."

"For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice."

"greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly."

"knowing it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him."

"For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him."

"It is true that some preach Christ out of envy and rivalry, but others out of goodwill."

"A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones."

"Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the Lord."

"Do not envy wicked men, do not desire their company;"

"Why gaze in envy, O rugged mountains, at the mountain where God chooses to reign, where the Lord himself will dwell forever?"

"They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips,"

"in the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them."

"Resentment kills a fool, and envy slays the simple."

"At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another."

"I made it beautiful with abundant branches, the envy of all the trees of Eden in the garden of God."