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What Does the Bible Say About Jealousness?

Here are 15 Bible verses about jealousness, ordered by how relevant readers found them, with the King James Version and the modern Berean Standard Bible side by side.

  1. #1Exodus 20:5

    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;

    BSBYou shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

  2. #2Exodus 34:14

    For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

    BSBFor you must not worship any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

  3. #31 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?

    BSBfor 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?

  4. #4Proverbs 14:30

    A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

    BSBA tranquil heart is life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

  5. #5James 3:14-16

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

    BSBBut if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth. Such wisdom does not come from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.

  6. #6Galatians 5:19-21

    Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 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.

    BSBThe acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, 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.

  7. #7Song of Solomon 8:6

    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.

    BSBSet me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.

  8. #82 Corinthians 11:2

    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.

    BSBI am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

  9. #9Proverbs 27:4

    Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

    BSBWrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

  10. #101 Corinthians 13:4

    Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

    BSBLove is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

  11. #11James 4:2-3

    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.

    BSBYou crave what you do not have; you kill and covet, but are unable to obtain it. You quarrel and fight. You do not have, because you do not ask. And when you do ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may squander it on your pleasures.

  12. #12Acts 7:9

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

    BSBBecause the patriarchs were jealous of Joseph, they sold him as a slave into Egypt. But God was with him

  13. #13Romans 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.

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

  14. #14Proverbs 6:34

    For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

    BSBFor jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

  15. #15Deuteronomy 4:24

    For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

    BSBFor the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.

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