12 Bible verses about Jealousy and Envy KJV

Proverbs 14:30 · KJV

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

James 3:16 · KJV

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

Galatians 5:26 · KJV

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

1 Corinthians 13:4 · KJV

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

Exodus 20:17 · KJV

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.

Proverbs 23:17 · KJV

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

Psalm 37:1 · KJV

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

James 4:2-3 · KJV

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. Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.

Galatians 6:4 · KJV

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

1 Peter 2:1 · KJV

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

Ecclesiastes 4:4 · KJV

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.

Philippians 4:11 · KJV

Not that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.