Bible Verses about “envy”
The Bible contains 19 verses about envy across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”
“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.”
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”
“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”
“¶ Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,”
“For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.”
“‹Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:›”
“‹For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,›”
“And he said, ‹That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.›”
“‹All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.›”
“Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.”
“For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.”
“¶ A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.”
“Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?”
“¶ Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.”
“For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God:”
“¶ Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.”
“¶ Let not thine heart envy sinners: but [be thou] in the fear of the LORD all the day long.”
“For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.”