Bible Verses About Envy: General references

Doubtlesse anger killeth the foolish, and enuie slayeth the idiote.

I haue seene the foolish well rooted, and suddenly I cursed his habitation, saying,

Vntill I went into the Sanctuarie of God: then vnderstoode I their ende.

Surely thou hast set them in slipperie places, and castest them downe into desolation.

How suddenly are they destroyed, perished and horribly consumed,

As a dreame when one awaketh! O Lord, when thou raisest vs vp, thou shalt make their image despised.

Moreouer the workes of the flesh are manifest, which are adulterie, fornication, vncleannes, wantonnes,

Idolatrie, witchcraft, hatred, debate, emulations, wrath, contentions, seditions, heresies,

Enuie, murthers, drunkennesse, gluttonie, and such like, whereof I tell you before, as I also haue tolde you before, that they which doe such things, shall not inherite the kingdome of God.

He is puft vp and knoweth nothing, but doteth about questions and strife of words, whereof commeth enuie, strife, railings, euill surmisings,

Frowarde disputations of men of corrupt mindes and destitute of ye trueth, which thinke that gaine is godlines: from such separate thy selfe.