Envy

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• Proverbs 14:30

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

• Exodus 34:14

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

• James 3:16

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

• Proverbs 23:17

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

• 1 Corinthians 13:4

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

• Galatians 5:19–21

  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

• Galatians 5:26

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

• 1 Peter 2:1

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

• Proverbs 24:1

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

• Titus 3:3

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

• Proverbs 27:4

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

• Ecclesiastes 4:4

  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.

• Job 5:2

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

• Mark 7:20–23

  And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: …

• 1 Timothy 6:4

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

• Proverbs 3:31

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

• Exodus 20:17

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 3:3

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

• Romans 1:29

  Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

• Galatians 6:4

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

• Mark 15:10

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

• Acts 7:9

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

• Proverbs 24:19

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

• James 3:14–16

  But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

• Ezekiel 35:11

  Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.

• Psalms 73:3

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

• Psalms 37:1

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

• Matthew 27:18

  For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

• James 3:14

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

• Acts 17:5

  But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

• Romans 13:13

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

• Acts 13:45

  But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

• Philippians 1:15

  Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

• 2 Corinthians 12:20

  For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

• Proverbs 23:17–18

  Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long. For surely there is an end; and thine expectation shall not be cut off.

• Song of Solomon 8:6

  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.

• Psalms 37:7

  Rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

• Romans 13:13–14

  Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to fulfil the lusts thereof.

• James 4:5

  Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

• Proverbs 29:11

  A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.

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