Scripture warns against the destructive nature of jealousy and envy, which can lead to chaos and disorder. In James 3:14-16, these emotions are associated with earthly and demonic wisdom, while Proverbs 14:30 notes that envy can rot the bones. The apostle Paul, in 1 Corinthians 13:4, highlights that love is not jealous, emphasizing the importance of selfless affection. Furthermore, James 3:16 and Philippians 2:3 encourage humility and a lack of selfish ambition, promoting a heart of kindness and compassion instead of envy and jealousy.
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But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth. Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or empty pride, but in humility consider others more important than yourselves.
The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
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?
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and exult in the surrender of my body, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be restrained; where there is knowledge, it will be dismissed. For we know in part and we prophesy in part, but when the perfect comes, the partial passes away. When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known. And now these three remain: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of these is love.
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.
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.