Bible Verses About Jealousy and Envy

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

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

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

4. “You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

5. Don’t let your heart envy sinners; but rather fear Yahweh all the day long.

6. Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

7. Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

8. Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

9. But let each man test his own work, and then he will take pride in himself and not in his neighbor.

10. doing nothing through rivalry or through conceit, but in humility, each counting others better than himself;

11. Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

Verses quoted from the World English Bible (public domain).

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