Bible Verses About Jealousy and Envy
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for jealousy and envy, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 17,228 votes, led by James 3:14-16. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Jealousy and Envy
James 3:14-161,448 votes
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Proverbs 14:301,173 votes
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
1 Corinthians 13:4779 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Proverbs 27:4720 votes
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Galatians 5:19-21692 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Philippians 2:3678 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
James 3:16672 votes
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
1 Corinthians 3:3546 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 13:13424 votes
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
1 Corinthians 13:1-13318 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.
Song of Songs 8:6306 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.
Ecclesiastes 4:4304 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.
1 John 4:8296 votes
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Job 5:2235 votes
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Acts 7:9212 votes
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Psalms 37:1199 votes
Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.
James 4:7196 votes
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
Titus 3:3193 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.
1 Peter 2:1174 votes
Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
John 8:32170 votes
And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Proverbs 23:17168 votes
Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.
1 Peter 4:8167 votes
And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.
Exodus 20:17164 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.
Proverbs 6:34146 votes
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Deuteronomy 4:24140 votes
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
What does the Bible say about jealousy and envy?
Readers most often cite James 3:14-16 on the subject of jealousy and envy. Across 17,228 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Proverbs 14:30, 1 Corinthians 13:4, Proverbs 27:4. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.