Bible Verses About Envy and Jealousy
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for envy and jealousy, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 23,482 votes, led by James 3:16. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Envy and Jealousy
James 3:161,807 votes
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
Proverbs 14:301,363 votes
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
James 4:2-31,274 votes
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.
James 3:141,154 votes
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Proverbs 27:41,019 votes
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
1 Corinthians 10:13944 votes
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Galatians 5:19-21878 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
James 3:14-15814 votes
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
1 Corinthians 3:3770 votes
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
Romans 12:21685 votes
Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.
Exodus 20:17558 votes
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
1 Corinthians 13:1-8548 votes
Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
1 John 4:8469 votes
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Proverbs 10:12438 votes
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.
Ecclesiastes 4:4416 votes
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Psalms 25:4-5396 votes
Shew me thy ways, O Lord; teach me thy paths.
Galatians 5:22339 votes
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,
Song of Songs 8:6320 votes
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
1 Corinthians 13:4300 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Galatians 6:4265 votes
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Psalms 37:1259 votes
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
James 4:11254 votes
Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.
Proverbs 6:34245 votes
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Psalms 37:1-40237 votes
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
James 4:2236 votes
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.
What does the Bible say about envy and jealousy?
Readers most often cite James 3:16 on the subject of envy and jealousy. Across 23,482 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 14:30, James 4:2-3, James 3:14. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.