What Does the Bible Say About Jealousy? 15+ Verses on Envy

"The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones."

"But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, sensual, and demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed."

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

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

"for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?"

"Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?"

"“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.”"

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

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

"Don’t be envious of evil men; neither desire to be with them:"

"Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind."

"For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple."

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

"For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another."

"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."

"Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh."

"for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God."