Bible verses about "envy" | MLV

²⁰ Now he said, What travels out from the man, this desecrates the man. ²¹ For evil reasonings travel from inside, out of the heart of men, such as : adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, ²² greedy-acts, wickednesses, treachery, unbridled-lusts, an evil eye, blasphemy, haughtiness, foolishness. ²³ All these evil things travel from inside, and desecrate the man.

¹ Do not be envious against evil men, nor desire to be with them.

⁴ Love has patience. It is kind. Love is not jealous. Love does not brag. It is not arrogant.

¹ Therefore having placed away from yourselves all malice and all treachery, and hypocrisies and envies, and all slanders,

³ For we were also previously foolish, disobedient, being misled, serving in various lusts and sensual-delights, leading lives in malice and envy, spiteful, hating one another.

¹⁶ For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is unrest and every evil matter.

²⁶ Do not become conceited, inflaming one another, envying one another.

¹⁷ Do not let your heart envy sinners, but be in the fear of Jehovah all the day long.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are apparent, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, unbridled-lusts, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousies, furies, selfish ambitions, dissensions, sects, ²¹ envies, murders, drunkenness, revelings and things similar to these things; which I am telling to you beforehand, also just-as I foretold to you, that those who are practicing such things–they will not be inheriting the kingdom of God!

³⁰ A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh, but envy is the rottenness of the bones.

¹⁴ for you will worship no other god. For Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.