Top 30 Bible Verses about Envy and Jealousy

A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but jealousy makes the bones rot.

Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, envying one another.

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

Do not envy a man of violence and do not choose any of his ways.

Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man’s envy of his neighbor.

Be not envious of evil men, nor desire to be with them.

For love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave.

Better is a dinner of herbs where love is than a fattened ox and hatred with it.

For vexation kills the fool, and jealousy slays the simple.

A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant.

For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare when he takes revenge.

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

And the patriarchs, jealous of Joseph, sold him into Egypt; but God was with him.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

For he knew that it was out of envy that they had delivered him up.

Let not your heart envy sinners, but continue in the fear of the LORD all the day.

And Saul eyed David from that day on.

Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.

His archers surround me. He pierces my kidneys and pours out my gall on the ground.

In the path of righteousness is life, and in its pathway there is no death.

You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel.

A stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, but a fool’s provocation is heavier than both.

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept the saying in mind.

Precious treasure and oil are in a wise man’s dwelling, but a foolish man devours it.

But he was angry and refused to go in. His father came out and entreated him.

For you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy.

A man’s steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way?

O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.

The jealousy of embittered people is sharper than swords.

The very existence of jealousy makes us doubt our value.

If I were a man, I would love to love; but as a girl, I am not envious.

Jealousy is a form of passion — it is the antithesis of love.