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Popular Bible Verses about Envy

Found 31 Verses

1 Corinthians 13:4

Bible Rank: 294
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. NIV
Love endures long and is patient and kind; love never is envious nor boils over with jealousy, is not boastful or vainglorious, does not display itself haughtily. AMP
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, KJV

Titus 3:3

Bible Rank: 1,077
At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. NIV
For we also were once thoughtless and senseless, obstinate and disobedient, deluded and misled; [we too were once] slaves to all sorts of cravings and pleasures, wasting our days in malice and jealousy and envy, hateful (hated, detestable) and hating one another. AMP
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another. KJV

1 Peter 2:1

Bible Rank: 1,771
Therefore, rid yourselves of all malice and all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of every kind. NIV
SO BE done with every trace of wickedness (depravity, malignity) and all deceit and insincerity (pretense, hypocrisy) and grudges (envy, jealousy) and slander and evil speaking of every kind. AMP
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings, KJV

James 4:2

Bible Rank: 1,907
You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. NIV
You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your desires go unfulfilled; [so] you become murderers. [To hate is to murder as far as your hearts are concerned.] You burn with envy and anger and are not able to obtain [the gratification, the contentment, and the happiness that you seek], so you fight and war. You do not have, because you do not ask. [I John 3:15.] AMP
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. KJV

Romans 11:14

Bible Rank: 2,575
In the hope that I may somehow arouse my own people to envy and save some of them. NIV
In the hope of making my fellow Jews jealous [in order to stir them up to imitate, copy, and appropriate], and thus managing to save some of them. AMP
If by any means I may provoke to emulation them which are my flesh, and might save some of them. KJV

Isaiah 11:13

Bible Rank: 3,147
Ephraim's jealousy will vanish, and Judah's enemies will be destroyed; Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim. NIV
The envy and jealousy of Ephraim also shall depart, and they who vex and harass Judah from outside or inside shall be cut off; Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex and harass Ephraim. AMP
The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and the adversaries of Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim. KJV

Mark 7:22

Bible Rank: 6,898
Adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. NIV
Coveting (a greedy desire to have more wealth), dangerous and destructive wickedness, deceit; unrestrained (indecent) conduct; an evil eye (envy), slander (evil speaking, malicious misrepresentation, abusiveness), pride (the sin of an uplifted heart against God and man), foolishness (folly, lack of sense, recklessness, thoughtlessness). AMP
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: KJV

Proverbs 14:30

Bible Rank: 6,902
A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones. NIV
A calm and undisturbed mind and heart are the life and health of the body, but envy, jealousy, and wrath are like rottenness of the bones. AMP
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones. KJV

1 Timothy 6:4

Bible Rank: 7,924
They are conceited and understand nothing. They have an unhealthy interest in controversies and quarrels about words that result in envy, strife, malicious talk, evil suspicions NIV
He is puffed up with pride and stupefied with conceit, [although he is] woefully ignorant. He has a morbid fondness for controversy and disputes and strife about words, which result in (produce) envy and jealousy, quarrels and dissension, abuse and insults and slander, and base suspicions AMP
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings, KJV

Proverbs 3:31

Bible Rank: 8,534
Do not envy the violent or choose any of their ways. NIV
Do not resentfully envy and be jealous of an unscrupulous, grasping man, and choose none of his ways. [Ps. 37:1; 73:3; Prov. 24:1.] AMP
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways. KJV

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