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.”
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