Bible Verses about “being envious”

“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”

“But seek first God's Kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things will be given to you as well.”

“envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.”

“Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,”

“idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,”

“Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, "I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you."”

“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.”

“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”

“For the word of God is living, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow, and is able to discern the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”

“Whereas you don't know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor, that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.”

“Now the natural man doesn't receive the things of God's Spirit, for they are foolishness to him, and he can't know them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

“But as it is written, "Things which an eye didn't see, and an ear didn't hear, which didn't enter into the heart of man, these God has prepared for those who love him."”

“The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.”

“Which things also we speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things.”

“"For I, Yahweh, don't change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.”

“"For who has known the mind of the Lord, that he should instruct him?" But we have Christ's mind.”

“But he who is spiritual discerns all things, and he himself is judged by no one.”

“But to us, God revealed them through the Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.”

“For who among men knows the things of a man, except the spirit of the man, which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God, except God's Spirit.”

“But we received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit which is from God, that we might know the things that were freely given to us by God.”

“But we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the wisdom that has been hidden, which God foreordained before the worlds for our glory,”

“I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.”

“My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,”

“that your faith wouldn't stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.”

“which none of the rulers of this world has known. For had they known it, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory.”

“We speak wisdom, however, among those who are full grown; yet a wisdom not of this world, nor of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing.”

“For I determined not to know anything among you, except Jesus Christ, and him crucified.”

“When I came to you, brothers, I didn't come with excellence of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God.”