Bible Verses About Jealousy & Envy

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

“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. For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.”

“Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.”

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

“Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither like the green herb.”

“Don’t let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh 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.”

“Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking, as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,”

“Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?”

“You lust, and don’t have. You murder and 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 on your pleasures.”