Top 25 Bible Verses About Envy (NIV)

¹⁴ Do not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

³⁰ A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

¹⁷ Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the LORD.

²⁶ Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

¹ Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind.

¹⁶ For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

¹⁹ The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; ²⁰ idolatry and witchcraft; hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions ²¹ 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.

¹ Do not envy wicked men, do not desire their company;

⁴ Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

³ 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.

²⁰ He went on: "What comes out of a man is what makes him 'unclean.' ²¹ For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, ²² greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. ²³ All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean.'"

¹⁹ Do not fret because of evil men or be envious of the wicked,

⁴ 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

²⁹ 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,

¹¹ A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man keeps himself under control.

¹¹ therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will treat you in accordance with the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred of them and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

⁷ Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.

⁴ Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

¹⁰ knowing it was out of envy that the chief priests had handed Jesus over to him.

³ You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men?

³ Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. ⁴ Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.

³¹ Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways,

⁴ Each one should test his own actions. Then he can take pride in himself, without comparing himself to somebody else,

²⁰ For I am afraid that when I come I may not find you as I want you to be, and you may not find me as you want me to be. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, gossip, arrogance and disorder.

⁴ 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.