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Envying [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Mortification experienced at the supposed prosperity and happiness of another.

2. Ill will at others, on account of some supposed superiority. Galatians 5:21 .

Envying [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Feeling uneasiness at the superior condition and happiness of another.

Envying [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Envy

King James Bible KJV Bible

Berean Standard Bible BSB Bible

7 KJV and 1 BSB verses contain “envying”

Romans 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.

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

1 Corinthians 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?

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?

2 Corinthians 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:

For I am afraid that when I come, I may not find you as I wish, and you may not find me as you wish. I fear that there may be quarreling, jealousy, rage, rivalry, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

Galatians 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.

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.

Galatians 5:26

Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another.

Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying one another.

James 3:14

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

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

James 3:16

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

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