ScriptureGenerator.comBible Verses About Envy
Verses about overcoming jealousy, finding contentment, and rejoicing in others' blessings.
Envy is called the rottenness of bones in Proverbs — a vivid image of how comparison and jealousy eat us from the inside. These Bible verses on envy name this struggle honestly and point toward freedom: freedom from the prison of comparison, from the resentment of others' success, from the lie that their gain is your loss. Scripture calls us to rejoice with those who rejoice, to love without envy, to fix our eyes not on what others have but on the God who is our inheritance.
“And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.”
Luke 12:15
More Verses for Envy
“A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.”
Proverbs 14:30
“For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.”
James 3:16
“Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.”
Galatians 5:26
“Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.”
Romans 13:13
“Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.”
Proverbs 23:17
“Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,”
1 Peter 2:1
“Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.”
Psalm 37:1-2
“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”
1 Timothy 6:10
“He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.”
Ecclesiastes 5:10
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