7 Bible Verses About Envy
7 Bible verses about Envy to read, reflect on, and commit to memory.
Wherever jealousy and selfish ambition are found, disorder follows, and every kind of evil deed.
A calm heart gives life to the body, but envy is decay in the bones.
We must not become people hungry for empty praise, who challenge one another and envy one another.
Love is patient; love is kind. Love does not envy, does not show off, is not puffed up.
So rid yourselves of all malice and every kind of deceit, of pretending and envy and all slander.
For at one time we too were foolish, disobedient and led astray, slaves to all kinds of desires and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.
I had grown jealous of the proud, watching wicked people do well.