Envy, jealousy, and coveting are all the same idea. They are all the wrongful feeling of wishing ill on someone else because they have belongings or advantages that you wish you had. They are all ungrateful, and they are all sins. Coveting is in the same category as stealing, adultery, and other sins. If you are selfish and wish to please your earthly desires, then you are bound to sin. When you are tempted to covet, stop immediately. It is best to focus on your blessings and yourself than to look at other people and their belongings and blessings. God wants the best for you, and He knows that you are unique. Therefore, you need to not compare yourself to others, and you need to trust in God to supply your needs. God blesses His children. If you stop and look at how He has blessed you, instead of looking at others and feeling jealous, then you will feel blessed and joyful.
Envy/Jealousy verses:
Proverbs 23:17 KJV: “Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.”
Proverbs 3:31 KJV: “Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.”
Proverbs 14:30 KJV: “A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.”
Exodus 20:17 KJV: “Thou 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.”
Romans 1:29 KJV: “Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers…”
1 Corinthians 13:4 KJV: “Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up…”
Titus 3:3 KJV: “For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.”
James 3:14 KJV: “But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.”
James 3:16 KJV: “For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.”
