Top 30 Bible Verses about Jealousy

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave.

By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.

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.

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

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

Fret not yourself because of evildoers, and be not envious of the wicked.

For he perceived that it was out of envy that the chief priests had delivered him up.

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

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.

Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses.

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

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

Then I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

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

They were filled with all manner of unrighteousness, evil, covetousness, malice. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness.

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

He is puffed up with conceit and understands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for controversy and for quarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions.

Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers!

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.

Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the bones.

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

He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster.

We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

The envy of excellence leads to the pursuit of excellence.