Bible Verses About Envy

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

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

For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

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

For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

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

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

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

For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.

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

They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.

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

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

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

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.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

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

Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

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

A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

He coveteth greedily all the day long: but the righteous giveth and spareth not.

Woe to him that coveteth an evil covetousness to his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the power of evil!

He that hasteth to be rich hath an evil eye, and considereth not that poverty shall come upon him.

For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.

But now ye rejoice in your boastings: all such rejoicing is evil.

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

The soul of the wicked desireth evil: his neighbour findeth no favour in his eyes.

The desire of the righteous is only good: but the expectation of the wicked is wrath.

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.

I have made him fair by the multitude of his branches: so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied him.

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;

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

But thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for to shed innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

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

He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

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