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Jealousy & Envy · KJV

Bible Verses About Jealousy and Envy

7 key scriptures

Envy is the rottenness of the bones. These verses expose the destruction of jealousy and call the heart to contentment and love instead.

Proverbs 14:30
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
James 3:16
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up.
Galatians 5:26
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Proverbs 27:4
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

Psalm 37:1

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
James 3:14
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.