Bible Study Topic: Envy

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Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
Proverbs Chapter 27: Verse 4

And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man's envy of his neighbor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes Chapter 4: Verse 4

Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.
Song of Solomon Chapter 8: Verse 6

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
Romans Chapter 13: Verse 13

You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men?
1 Corinthians Chapter 3: Verse 3

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
1 Corinthians Chapter 13: Verse 4

But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.
Such "wisdom" does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, of the devil.
For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
James Chapter 3: Verses 14 - 16

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