Bible Verses About Jealousy and Envy

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

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

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

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

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.

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

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

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

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.

He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

A Psalm of David. Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

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

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

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

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

And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.

For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

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

For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.

And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

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