Envy

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Job 5:2 OT

  For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

• Job 5:3 OT

  I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

• Psalms 37:1 OT

  Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

• Psalms 37:7 OT

  Rest in Yahweh, and wait patiently for him. Don’t fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who makes wicked plots happen.

• Psalms 49:16 OT

  Don’t be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased;

• Psalms 73:3 OT

  For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

• Psalms 73:17-20 OT

  until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end. Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction. How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors. As a dream when one…

• Psalms 112:10 OT

  The wicked will see it, and be grieved. He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away. The desire of the wicked will perish.

• Proverbs 3:31 OT

  Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.

• Proverbs 14:30 OT

  The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

• Proverbs 23:17 OT

  Don’t let your heart envy sinners, but rather fear Yahweh all day long.

• Proverbs 24:1 OT

  Don’t be envious of evil men, neither desire to be with them;

• Proverbs 24:19 OT

  Don’t fret yourself because of evildoers, neither be envious of the wicked;

• Proverbs 27:4 OT

  Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

• Ecclesiastes 4:4 OT

  Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

• Song of Solomon 8:6 OT

  Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

• Isaiah 26:11 OT

  Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.

• Ezekiel 35:11 OT

  therefore, as I live,” says the Lord Yahweh, “I will do according to your anger, and according to your envy which you have shown out of your hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

• Romans 1:29 NT

  being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

• Romans 13:13 NT

  Let’s walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

• 1 Corinthians 3:3 NT

  for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

• 1 Corinthians 13:4 NT

  Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

• 2 Corinthians 12:20 NT

  For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire, that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander,…

• Galatians 5:19-21 NT

  Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies, envy, murders, drunkenness,…