Bible Verses about “envy and jealousy”
Found 27 verses (ordered by relevance) about “envy and jealousy” in the WEB version of the Bible
“Love is patient and is kind; love doesn't envy. Love doesn't brag, is not proud,”
“doesn't behave itself inappropriately, doesn't seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;”
“bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
“doesn't rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;”
“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.”
“No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.”
“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,”
“Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.”
“If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don't have love, I am nothing.”
“If I dole out all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don't have love, it profits me nothing.”
“If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don't have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal.”
“Don't be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
“He who doesn't love doesn't know God, for God is love.”
“You lust, and don't have. You kill, covet, and can't obtain. You fight and make war. You don't have, because you don't ask.”
“You ask, and don't receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it for your pleasures.”
“For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.”
“"You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."”
“But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don't boast and don't lie against the truth.”
“This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic.”
“Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all wrongs.”
“The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.”
“Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?”
“for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren't you fleshly, and don't you walk in the ways of men?”
“Show me your ways, Yahweh. Teach me your paths.”
“Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.”
“Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man's neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.”