Top 25 Bible Verses About Envy (KJV)

14 For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

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

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

26 Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

16 For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 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.

1 Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.

4 Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

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

20 And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

19 Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;

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

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

11 A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.

11 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.

7 Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

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

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

3 For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

3 Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves. 4 Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

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

4 But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.

20 For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

4 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.