Envy and jealousy

⁸ And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?”

⁹ And from that day forward Saul kept a jealous eye on David.

You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. You shall not covet your neighbor’s house or field, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”

¹⁴ But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.

¹⁵ Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.

¹⁶ For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.

³¹ Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;

³² for the LORD detests the perverse, but He is a friend to the upright.

Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always continue in the fear of the LORD.

² I gave you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready for solid food. In fact, you are still not ready,

³ for you are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and dissension among you, are you not worldly? Are you not walking in the way of man?

⁴ For when one of you says, “I follow Paul,” and another, “I follow Apollos,” are you not mere men?

I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Yet none of this satisfies me as long as I see Mordecai the Jew sitting at the king’s gate.”

And his brothers were jealous of him, but his father kept in mind what he had said.

¹ What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?

² You crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask.

But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”

“Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.

A tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

¹ Do not envy wicked men or desire their company;

² for their hearts devise violence, and their lips declare trouble.

Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”

When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.

³ Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.

⁴ When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him.

⁵ Then Joseph had a dream, and when he told it to his brothers, they hated him even more.

³ So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,

⁴ while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,

⁵ but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell.

Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.

¹⁴ He owned so many flocks and herds and servants that the Philistines envied him.

¹⁵ So the Philistines took dirt and stopped up all the wells that his father’s servants had dug in the days of his father Abraham.

¹⁶ Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

²⁸ The older son became angry and refused to go in. So his father came out and pleaded with him.

²⁹ But he answered his father, ‘Look, all these years I have served you and never disobeyed a commandment of yours. Yet you never gave me even a young goat so I could celebrate with my friends.

³⁰ But when this son of yours returns from squandering your wealth with prostitutes, you kill the fattened calf for him!’

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy, and they blasphemously contradicted what Paul was saying.

The Jews, however, became jealous. So they brought in some troublemakers from the marketplace, formed a mob, and sent the city into an uproar. They raided Jason’s house in search of Paul and Silas, hoping to bring them out to the people.

And he slept with Hagar, and she conceived. But when Hagar realized that she was pregnant, she began to despise her mistress.

¹⁸ Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him.

¹⁹ “Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.

For he knew it was out of envy that they had handed Jesus over to him.

He has brought you near, you and all your fellow Levites, but you are seeking the priesthood as well.

Do not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did Cain slay him? Because his own deeds were evil, while those of his brother were righteous.

¹ Some time later, Naboth the Jezreelite happened to own a vineyard in Jezreel next to the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

² So Ahab said to Naboth, “Give me your vineyard to use as a vegetable garden, since it is next to my palace. I will give you a better vineyard in its place—or if you prefer, I will give you its value in silver.”

³ But Naboth replied, “The LORD forbid that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”

⁴ So Ahab went to his palace, sullen and angry because Naboth the Jezreelite had told him, “I will not give you the inheritance of my fathers.” He lay down on his bed, turned his face away, and refused to eat.

⁶ Because the LORD had closed Hannah’s womb, her rival would provoke her and taunt her viciously.

⁷ And this went on year after year. Whenever Hannah went up to the house of the LORD, her rival taunted her until she wept and would not eat.

And as the women danced, they sang out: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”

For as long as the son of Jesse lives on this earth, neither you nor your kingship shall be established. Now send for him and bring him to me, for he must surely die!”

Is that why all of you have conspired against me? Not one of you told me that my own son had made a covenant with the son of Jesse. Not one of you has shown concern for me or revealed to me that my son has stirred up my own servant to lie in wait against me, as is the case today.”

Then the high priest and all his associates, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy. They went out

Because the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him