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19 Bible Verses About Jealousy and Envy

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Summary

  • Proverbs 14:30 and Job 5:2 describe envy harming the person who holds it: it “rots the bones” and “slays the simple.”
  • Paul lists jealousy and envy together among the acts of the flesh in Galatians 5:19-21, and in 1 Corinthians 3:3-4 he traces the Corinthian factions to jealousy.
  • Mark 15:10 says the chief priests handed Jesus over out of phthonos, envy, which the NIV renders “self-interest.”
  • Exodus 34:14 gives the Lord the name Jealous, in a passage forbidding the worship of other gods.
  • In 2 Corinthians 11:2 Paul calls his concern for the Corinthian church “a godly jealousy.”

The Bible lists jealousy and envy among the sins of people, and it also uses the word of God and of love. Envy “rots the bones” of the one who holds it (Proverbs 14:30), and where it runs through a community there is “disorder and every evil practice” (James 3:16). God is called “a jealous God” (Exodus 20:5). Galatians 5:19-21 lists jealousy and envy among “the acts of the flesh”, and the stories show them at work: Rachel jealous of…

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Scripture quotations are from the New International Version.

Strong’s Greek 5355, φθόνος (phthonos): envy; used in Matthew 27:18, Mark 15:10, Galatians 5:21, Titus 3:3 and 1 Peter 2:1. biblehub.com/greek/5355

Strong’s Hebrew 7067, קַנָּא (qanna): jealous. biblehub.com/hebrew/7067

Strong’s Hebrew 7068, קִנְאָה (qin’ah): jealousy, zeal, ardour; used of a husband’s jealousy in Proverbs 6:34 and Proverbs 27:4. biblehub.com/hebrew/7068

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