Jealousness

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;

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

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

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

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. — read the full passage →

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, — read the full passage →

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.

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.

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

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

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. — read the full passage →

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

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

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

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?

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:

And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:

(For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto 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,

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: — read the full passage →

And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.

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? — read the full passage →

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

Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: — read the full passage →

Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: — read the full passage →

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.

Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying. — read the full passage →

Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee. — read the full passage →

These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him: — read the full passage →

For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.

I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

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. — read the full passage →

Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity.

For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.

And he said, I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

And the women answered one another as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands. — read the full passage →

And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. — read the full passage →

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: — read the full passage →

Thou hast loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladness above thy fellows.

Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.

But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you. — read the full passage →

These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out. — read the full passage →

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations: — read the full passage →

Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear: — read the full passage →

If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.

That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; — read the full passage →

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

As we have therefore opportunity, let us do good unto all men, especially unto them who are of the household of faith.

I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: — read the full passage →

Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. — read the full passage →

Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he? — read the full passage →

Moreover it is required in stewards, that a man be found faithful.

Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.

To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for glory and honour and immortality, eternal life:

For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. — read the full passage →

That word, I say, ye know, which was published throughout all Judea, and began from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you;

For David is not ascended into the heavens: but he saith himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, — read the full passage →

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

I have glorified thee on the earth: I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do.

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? — read the full passage →

Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

And the Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, — read the full passage →

And Pilate gave sentence that it should be as they required.

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

Master, which is the great commandment in the law? — read the full passage →

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you: — read the full passage →