Envy

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• James 3:14 NT

  But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.

• 1 Peter 2:1 NT

  Putting away therefore all wickedness, all deceit, hypocrisies, envies, and all evil speaking,

• 1 Peter 2:2 NT

  as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,

• Romans 1:29 NT

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

• Titus 3:3 NT

  For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

• James 3:16 NT

  For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.

• Psalms 37:1 OT

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

• Psalms 37:35 OT

  I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.

• 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…

• 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.

• Genesis 4:5 OT

  but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell.

• Genesis 26:14 OT

  He had possessions of flocks, possessions of herds, and a great household. The Philistines envied him.

• Genesis 31:1 OT

  Jacob heard Laban’s sons’ words, saying, “Jacob has taken away all that was our father’s. He has obtained all this wealth from that which was our father’s.”

• Genesis 37:11 OT

  His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

• Numbers 11:28 OT

  Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered, “My lord Moses, forbid them!”

• Numbers 11:29 OT

  Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all Yahweh’s people were prophets, that Yahweh would put his Spirit on them!”

• Numbers 12:2 OT

  They said, “Has Yahweh indeed spoken only with Moses? Hasn’t he spoken also with us?” And Yahweh heard it.

• Numbers 16:3 OT

  They assembled themselves together against Moses and against Aaron, and said to them, “You take too much on yourself, since all the congregation are holy, everyone of them, and Yahweh is among them! Why do you lift yourselves up above…

• Psalms 106:16 OT

  They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron, Yahweh’s saint.

• 1 Samuel 18:8 OT

  Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him. He said, “They have creditd David with ten thousands, and they have only credited me with thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”

• Nehemiah 2:10 OT

  When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly, because a man had come to seek the welfare of the children of Israel.

• Esther 5:13 OT

  Yet all this avails me nothing, so long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

• 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.