diff --git a/packages/jest-resolve/package.json b/packages/jest-resolve/package.json
index 637fcc8447d3..6bd44f3e3da7 100644
--- a/packages/jest-resolve/package.json
+++ b/packages/jest-resolve/package.json
@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "browser-resolve": "^1.11.2",
     "chalk": "^2.0.1",
-    "is-builtin-module": "^1.0.0",
-    "resolve": "^1.3.2"
+    "is-builtin-module": "^1.0.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "jest-haste-map": "^20.0.4"
diff --git a/packages/jest-resolve/src/default_resolver.js b/packages/jest-resolve/src/default_resolver.js
index a4799d07aeb1..2ed74a9823b3 100644
--- a/packages/jest-resolve/src/default_resolver.js
+++ b/packages/jest-resolve/src/default_resolver.js
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@
 
 import type {Path} from 'types/Config';
 
-import resolve from 'resolve';
 import browserResolve from 'browser-resolve';
 
 type ResolverOptions = {|
@@ -21,10 +20,10 @@ type ResolverOptions = {|
   paths?: ?Array<Path>,
 |};
 
-function defaultResolver(path: Path, options: ResolverOptions) {
-  const resv = options.browser ? browserResolve : resolve;
+function defaultResolver(path: Path, options: ResolverOptions): Path {
+  const resolve = options.browser ? browserResolve.sync : resolveSync;
 
-  return resv.sync(path, {
+  return resolve(path, {
     basedir: options.basedir,
     extensions: options.extensions,
     moduleDirectory: options.moduleDirectory,
@@ -33,3 +32,94 @@ function defaultResolver(path: Path, options: ResolverOptions) {
 }
 
 module.exports = defaultResolver;
+
+/*
+ * Adapted from: https://github.com/substack/node-resolve
+ */
+type ErrorWithCode = Error & {code?: string};
+
+import fs from 'fs';
+import path from 'path';
+import isBuiltinModule from 'is-builtin-module';
+
+import nodeModulesPaths from './node_modules_paths';
+
+const REGEX_RELATIVE_IMPORT = /^(?:\.\.?(?:\/|$)|\/|([A-Za-z]:)?[\\\/])/;
+
+function resolveSync(x: Path, options: ResolverOptions): Path {
+  const readFileSync = fs.readFileSync;
+
+  const extensions = options.extensions || ['.js'];
+  const basedir = options.basedir;
+
+  options.paths = options.paths || [];
+
+  if (REGEX_RELATIVE_IMPORT.test(x)) {
+    // resolve relative import
+    let target = path.resolve(basedir, x);
+    if (x === '..') target += '/';
+    const m = loadAsFileSync(target) || loadAsDirectorySync(target);
+    if (m) return m;
+  } else {
+    // otherwise search for node_modules
+    const dirs = nodeModulesPaths(basedir, {
+      moduleDirectory: options.moduleDirectory,
+      paths: options.paths,
+    });
+    for (let i = 0; i < dirs.length; i++) {
+      const dir = dirs[i];
+      const target = path.join(dir, '/', x);
+      const m = loadAsFileSync(target) || loadAsDirectorySync(target);
+      if (m) return m;
+    }
+  }
+
+  if (isBuiltinModule(x)) return x;
+
+  const err: ErrorWithCode = new Error(
+    "Cannot find module '" + x + "' from '" + basedir + "'",
+  );
+  err.code = 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND';
+  throw err;
+
+  /*
+   * helper functions
+   */
+  function isFile(file: Path): boolean {
+    try {
+      const stat = fs.statSync(file);
+      return stat.isFile() || stat.isFIFO();
+    } catch (e) {
+      if (e && e.code === 'ENOENT') return false;
+      throw e;
+    }
+  }
+
+  function loadAsFileSync(x: Path): ?Path {
+    if (isFile(x)) return x;
+
+    for (let i = 0; i < extensions.length; i++) {
+      const file = x + extensions[i];
+      if (isFile(file)) return file;
+    }
+
+    return undefined;
+  }
+
+  function loadAsDirectorySync(x: Path): ?Path {
+    const pkgfile = path.join(x, '/package.json');
+    if (isFile(pkgfile)) {
+      const body = readFileSync(pkgfile, 'utf8');
+      try {
+        const pkgmain = JSON.parse(body).main;
+        if (pkgmain) {
+          const target = path.resolve(x, pkgmain);
+          const m = loadAsFileSync(target) || loadAsDirectorySync(target);
+          if (m) return m;
+        }
+      } catch (e) {}
+    }
+
+    return loadAsFileSync(path.join(x, '/index'));
+  }
+}
diff --git a/packages/jest-resolve/src/index.js b/packages/jest-resolve/src/index.js
index b96b80a1bdfc..90565d999210 100644
--- a/packages/jest-resolve/src/index.js
+++ b/packages/jest-resolve/src/index.js
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ import type {ResolveModuleConfig} from 'types/Resolve';
 
 import fs from 'fs';
 import path from 'path';
-import nodeModulesPaths from 'resolve/lib/node-modules-paths';
+import nodeModulesPaths from './node_modules_paths';
 import isBuiltinModule from 'is-builtin-module';
 import defaultResolver from './default_resolver.js';
 import chalk from 'chalk';
diff --git a/packages/jest-resolve/src/node_modules_paths.js b/packages/jest-resolve/src/node_modules_paths.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d5aacc9c871e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/jest-resolve/src/node_modules_paths.js
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2014, Facebook, Inc. All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
+ * LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
+ * of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
+ *
+ * Adapted from: https://github.com/substack/node-resolve
+ *
+ * @flow
+ */
+
+import type {Path} from 'types/Config';
+import path from 'path';
+
+type NodeModulesPathsOptions = {|
+  moduleDirectory?: Array<string>,
+  paths?: ?Array<Path>,
+|};
+
+function nodeModulesPaths(
+  basedir: Path,
+  options: NodeModulesPathsOptions,
+): Path[] {
+  const modules =
+    options && options.moduleDirectory
+      ? [].concat(options.moduleDirectory)
+      : ['node_modules'];
+
+  // ensure that `basedir` is an absolute path at this point,
+  // resolving against the process' current working directory
+  const basedirAbs = path.resolve(basedir);
+
+  let prefix = '/';
+  if (/^([A-Za-z]:)/.test(basedirAbs)) {
+    prefix = '';
+  } else if (/^\\\\/.test(basedirAbs)) {
+    prefix = '\\\\';
+  }
+
+  const paths = [basedirAbs];
+  let parsed = path.parse(basedirAbs);
+  while (parsed.dir !== paths[paths.length - 1]) {
+    paths.push(parsed.dir);
+    parsed = path.parse(parsed.dir);
+  }
+
+  const dirs = paths.reduce((dirs, aPath) => {
+    return dirs.concat(
+      modules.map(moduleDir => {
+        return path.join(prefix, aPath, moduleDir);
+      }),
+    );
+  }, []);
+
+  return options.paths ? dirs.concat(options.paths) : dirs;
+}
+
+module.exports = nodeModulesPaths;