Envy

A tranquil heart is the life of the flesh; But envy is the rottenness of the bones.

(for thou shalt worship no other god: for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God);

For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed.

Let not thy heart envy sinners; Butbe thouin the fear of Jehovah all the day long:

Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,

Be not thou envious against evil men; Neither desire to be with them:

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

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

Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

For vexation killeth the foolish man, And jealousy slayeth the silly one.

And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man. — read the full passage →

he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

Envy thou not the man of violence, And choose none of his ways.

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is thy neighbor’s.

for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.

And the patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt: and God was with him,

For he perceived that for envy the chief priests had delivered him up.

But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. — read the full passage →

Fret not thyself because of evil-doers; Neither be thou envious at the wicked:

therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast showed out of thy hatred against them; and I will make myself known among them, when I shall judge thee.

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

Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, Neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness.

For he knew that for envy they had delivered him up.

But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth.

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, took unto them certain vile fellows of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city on an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them forth to the people.

Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with jealousy, and contradicted the things which were spoken by Paul, and blasphemed.

For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means there should be strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;

Let not thy heart envy sinners; Butbe thouin the fear of Jehovah all the day long: — read the full passage →

Set me as a seal upon thy heart, As a seal upon thine arm: For love is strong as death; Jealousy is cruel as Sheol; The flashes thereof are flashes of fire, A very flame of Jehovah.

Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy. — read the full passage →

Rest in Jehovah, and wait patiently for him: Fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, Because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass.

Or think ye that the scripture speaketh in vain? Doth the spirit which he made to dwell in us long unto envying?

A fool uttereth all his anger; But a wise man keepeth it back and stilleth it.

Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war; ye have not, because ye ask not.

Take heed that ye do not your righteousness before men, to be seen of them: else ye have no reward with your Father who is in heaven. — read the full passage →

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, Neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show unto his servants, even the things which must shortly come to pass: and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John;

Putting away therefore all wickedness, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings, — read the full passage →

For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries, — read the full passage →

But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. — read the full passage →

Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but they shall seethyzeal for the people, and be put to shame; yea, fire shall devour thine adversaries.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are upon the earth.

and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

The simple believeth every word; But the prudent man looketh well to his going.

Be not thou afraid when one is made rich, When the glory of his house is increased:

Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: Fret not thyself, it tendeth only to evil-doing.

envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

for they loved the glory that is of men more than the glory that is of God.

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end. — read the full passage →

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself;

Ye knowthis, my beloved brethren. But let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath: — read the full passage →

Be ye free from the love of money; content with such things as ye have: for himself hath said, I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.

doing nothing through faction or through vainglory, but in lowliness of mind each counting other better than himself; — read the full passage →

And when ye pray, ye shall not be as the hypocrites: for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.

Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members? — read the full passage →

It is not good to eat much honey; Sofor mento search out their own glory is grievous.

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

And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and she said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.

Murmur not, brethren, one against another, that ye be not judged: behold, the judge standeth before the doors.

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, With a nation void of understanding will I anger you.

For jealousy is the rage of a man; And he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

They envied Moses also in the camp, AndAaron the saint of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

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

But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

and the dust returneth to the earth as it was, and the spirit returneth unto God who gave it.

The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah. — read the full passage →

And we know that to them that love God all things work together for good, even to them that are called according to his purpose.

Fret not thyself because of evil-doers, Neither be thou envious against them that work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them. — read the full passage →

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, took unto them certain vile fellows of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city on an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them forth to the people. — read the full passage →

John answered and said, A man can receive nothing, except it have been given him from heaven.

wranglings of men corrupted in mind and bereft of the truth, supposing that godliness is a way of gain. — read the full passage →

Therefore I say unto you, All things whatsoever ye pray and ask for, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them. — read the full passage →

The wicked desireth the net of evil men; But the root of the righteous yieldeth fruit.

They envied Moses also in the camp, AndAaron the saint of Jehovah.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called, — read the full passage →

And I, brethren, when I came unto you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. — read the full passage →

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

Forit isaswhena man, going into another country, called his own servants, and delivered unto them his goods. — read the full passage →

For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. — read the full passage →

It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom a hundred and twenty satraps, who should be throughout the whole kingdom; — read the full passage →

My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments: — read the full passage →

O Jehovah, thou hast searched me, and knownme. — read the full passage →

Jehovah is my shepherd; I shall not want. — read the full passage →

Preserve me, O God; for in thee do I take refuge. — read the full passage →

And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of Jehovah. — read the full passage →

Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: