Bible Verses about “jealousness”
The Bible contains 21 verses about jealousness across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“¶ Charity suffereth long, [and] is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,”
“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.”
“Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,”
“Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,”
“Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.”
“Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;”
“Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.”
“Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume [it] upon your lusts.”
“For where envying and strife [is], there [is] confusion and every evil work.”
“But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.”
“This wisdom descendeth not from above, but [is] earthly, sensual, devilish.”
“¶ A sound heart [is] the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.”
“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love [is] strong as death; jealousy [is] cruel as the grave: the coals thereof [are] coals of fire, [which hath a] most vehement flame.”
“Wrath [is] cruel, and anger [is] outrageous; but who [is] able to stand before envy?”
“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 I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present [you as] a chaste virgin to Christ.”
“For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name [is] Jealous, [is] a jealous God:”
“For jealousy [is] the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.”
“And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,”
“For the LORD thy God [is] a consuming fire, [even] a jealous God.”
“And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed [but] thousands: and [what] can he have more but the kingdom?”