Bible Verses About Envy

For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.

I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end.

Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.

How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties,

envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain.