Bible Verses about 'Envy'

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• Don’t envy the man of violence.
  Choose none of his ways.
  For the perverse is an abomination to Yahweh,
  but his friendship is with the upright.
  Proverbs 3:31-32 trust righteousness planning
• 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.
  Ecclesiastes 4:4 work neighbor desires
• For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.
  James 3:16 sin selfishness evil
• Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud, doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil.
  1 Corinthians 13:4-5 love patience anger
• 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, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.
  Galatians 5:19-21 body sin sexuality
• He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man. For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts, covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile the man.”
  Mark 7:20-23 sin purification temptation