Bible Verses About Envy
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for envy, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,475 votes, led by Proverbs 14:30. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Envy
Proverbs 14:30352 votes
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Exodus 34:14251 votes
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Proverbs 23:17178 votes
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.
James 3:16177 votes
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
1 Corinthians 13:4176 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Galatians 5:19-21167 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Galatians 5:26154 votes
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
1 Peter 2:1139 votes
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
Proverbs 24:1129 votes
Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them.
Titus 3:3114 votes
For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.
Proverbs 27:492 votes
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Ecclesiastes 4:487 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.
Job 5:279 votes
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Mark 7:20-2375 votes
And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
1 Timothy 6:471 votes
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
Proverbs 3:3168 votes
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Exodus 20:1764 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 3:364 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 1:2962 votes
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Galatians 6:455 votes
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
Proverbs 24:1954 votes
Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;
Acts 7:954 votes
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Ezekiel 35:1153 votes
Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord God, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I have judged thee.
Mark 15:1053 votes
For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.
Psalms 73:352 votes
For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
What does the Bible say about envy?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 14:30 on the subject of envy. Across 4,475 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 34:14, Proverbs 23:17, James 3:16. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.