Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'envy' occurs 25 times in the standard works.

4 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'envy' in the standard works and contain 16% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 11:13 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 21:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 10 0 10
NT 10 7 17
Matt. 1 0 1
Mark 1 0 1
Acts 3 0 3
Rom. 1 1 2
1 Cor. 0 1 1
2 Cor. 0 1 1
Gal. 0 2 2
Philip. 1 0 1
1 Tim. 1 0 1
Titus 1 0 1
James 1 2 3
BM 4 10 14
DC 1 1 2
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 25 18 43

Matt. 27:18
For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

Mark 15:10
For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.

Acts 7:9
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,

Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

Acts 17:5
But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.

Rom. 1:29
Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Rom. 13:13
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.

1 Cor. 3:3
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

2 Cor. 12:20
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

Gal. 5:21
Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Gal. 5:26
Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Philip. 1:15
Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

1 Tim. 6:4
He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

Titus 3:3
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
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

James 3:16
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

James 4:5
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?