Bible verses by topic › For hard days
Envy shrinks the heart. Contentment in God sets it free.
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Proverbs 14:30 · KJVFor where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
James 3:16 · KJVLet us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.
Galatians 5:26 · KJVCharity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
1 Corinthians 13:4 · KJVWrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Proverbs 27:4 · KJVFret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.
Psalm 37:1–2 · KJVWherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
1 Peter 2:1 · KJVLet us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Romans 13:13 · KJVThou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's.
Exodus 20:17 · KJVLet not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.
Proverbs 23:17 · KJVNot that I speak in respect of want: for I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content.
Philippians 4:11 · KJVEvery verse is quoted from the King James Version. Tap a reference to read it in context and compare it in other free translations.