Topic

Jealousness

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Exodus 20:5

you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

Exodus 34:14

for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

1 Corinthians 3:3

for you are still fleshly. For insofar as there is jealousy, strife, and factions among you, aren’t you fleshly, and don’t you walk in the ways of men?

Proverbs 14:30

The life of the body is a heart at peace, but envy rots the bones.

James 3:14–16

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth. — read the full passage →

Galatians 5:19–21

Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness, — read the full passage →

Song of Solomon 8:6

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh.

2 Corinthians 11:2

For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy. For I married you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Proverbs 27:4

Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who is able to stand before jealousy?

1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is patient and is kind; love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

James 4:2–3

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask. — read the full passage →

Acts 7:9

“The patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt. God was with him,

Romans 13:13

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy.

Proverbs 6:34

For jealousy arouses the fury of the husband. He won’t spare in the day of vengeance.

Deuteronomy 4:24

For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

1 Samuel 18:8

Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?”

2 Corinthians 12:20

For I am afraid that by any means, when I come, I might find you not the way I want to, and that I might be found by you as you don’t desire; that by any means there would be strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, factions, slander, whisperings, proud thoughts, riots;

Numbers 5:14

and the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she is defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy comes on him, and he is jealous of his wife, and she isn’t defiled:

Deuteronomy 6:15

for Yahweh your God in your midst is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

Deuteronomy 5:9

You shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;

1 Corinthians 10:22

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Genesis 37:11

His brothers envied him, but his father kept this saying in mind.

Genesis 4:4–5

Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering, — read the full passage →

1 Kings 14:22

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

1 Samuel 18:8–9

Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him; and he said, “They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands. What can he have more but the kingdom?” — read the full passage →

James 4:5

Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The Spirit who lives in us yearns jealously”?

Romans 1:29

being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,

Exodus 20:4–5

“You shall not make for yourselves an idol, nor any image of anything that is in the heavens above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: — read the full passage →

Exodus 20:17

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Genesis 4:4–8

Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering, — read the full passage →

James 4:2

You lust, and don’t have. You kill, covet, and can’t obtain. You fight and make war. You don’t have, because you don’t ask.

Colossians 4:6

Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each one.

Psalms 79:5

How long, Yahweh? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?

Joshua 24:19

Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

Ephesians 5:17

Therefore don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Hebrews 2:17

Therefore he was obligated in all things to be made like his brothers, that he might become a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make atonement for the sins of the people.

John 13:35

By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Genesis 37:4

His brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, and they hated him, and couldn’t speak peaceably to him.

Romans 13:13–14

Let us walk properly, as in the day; not in reveling and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and lustful acts, and not in strife and jealousy. — read the full passage →

Matthew 20:14–15

Take that which is yours, and go your way. It is my desire to give to this last just as much as to you. — read the full passage →

Proverbs 6:16–19

There are six things which Yahweh hates; yes, seven which are an abomination to him: — read the full passage →

Titus 3:3

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

Ephesians 5:5

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

John 14:6

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

Malachi 3:6

“For I, Yahweh, don’t change; therefore you, sons of Jacob, are not consumed.

Isaiah 42:8

“I am Yahweh. That is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to engraved images.

Song of Solomon 8:6–7

Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm; for love is strong as death. Jealousy is as cruel as Sheol. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a very flame of Yahweh. — read the full passage →

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Psalms 78:58

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

Psalms 73:3

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

Psalms 37:1

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness.

Job 5:2

For resentment kills the foolish man, and jealousy kills the simple.

1 Kings 19:10

He said, “I have been very jealous for Yahweh, the God of Armies; for the children of Israel have forsaken your covenant, thrown down your altars, and slain your prophets with the sword. I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.”

1 Samuel 18:7–9

The women sang one to another as they played, and said, “Saul has slain his thousands, David his ten thousands.” — read the full passage →

1 Samuel 1:6

Her rival provoked her severely, to make her fret, because Yahweh had shut up her womb.

Deuteronomy 32:16

They moved him to jealousy with strange gods. They provoked him to anger with abominations.

Genesis 4:5–6

but he didn’t respect Cain and his offering. Cain was very angry, and the expression on his face fell. — read the full passage →

Genesis 4:4–7

Abel also brought some of the firstborn of his flock and of its fat. Yahweh respected Abel and his offering, — read the full passage →

Hebrews 1:9

You have loved righteousness, and hated iniquity; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness above your fellows.”

1 Corinthians 13:8

Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

1 Corinthians 13:1–8

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 10:13

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Romans 12:1

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Romans 10:19–21

But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, with a nation void of understanding I will make you angry.” — read the full passage →

Proverbs 25:1–10

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

Genesis 1:1

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

Revelation 2:26–27

He who overcomes, and he who keeps my works to the end, to him I will give authority over the nations. — read the full passage →

Hebrews 12:28–29

Therefore, receiving a Kingdom that can’t be shaken, let us have grace, through which we serve God acceptably, with reverence and awe, — read the full passage →

2 Timothy 2:12

If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.

1 Timothy 1:16

However, for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first, Jesus Christ might display all his patience, for an example of those who were going to believe in him for eternal life.

Colossians 1:10–11

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; — read the full passage →

Philippians 4:8

Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about these things.

Ephesians 6:14

Stand therefore, having the utility belt of truth buckled around your waist, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

Ephesians 4:25

Therefore putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor. For we are members of one another.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared before that we would walk in them.

Galatians 6:10

So then, as we have opportunity, let’s do what is good toward all men, and especially toward those who are of the household of the faith.

Galatians 1:6

I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;

2 Corinthians 5:14–15

For the love of Christ constrains us; because we judge thus, that one died for all, therefore all died. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 15:58

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord’s work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 13:1–13

If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass, or a clanging cymbal. — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 10:22–23

Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he? — read the full passage →

1 Corinthians 4:2

Here, moreover, it is required of stewards, that they be found faithful.

Romans 13:8

Owe no one anything, except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Romans 11:22

See then the goodness and severity of God. Toward those who fell, severity; but toward you, goodness, if you continue in his goodness; otherwise you also will be cut off.

Romans 2:7

to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory, honor, and incorruptibility, eternal life;

Romans 1:16–17

For I am not ashamed of the Good News of Christ, for it is the power of God for salvation for everyone who believes; for the Jew first, and also for the Greek. — read the full passage →

Acts 10:37

you yourselves know what happened, which was proclaimed throughout all Judea, beginning from Galilee, after the baptism which John preached;

Acts 3:14

But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,

Acts 2:34–36

For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand, — read the full passage →

John 17:17

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

John 17:4

I glorified you on the earth. I have accomplished the work which you have given me to do.

John 10:34–35

Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods?’ — read the full passage →

John 6:28–29

They said therefore to him, “What must we do, that we may work the works of God?” — read the full passage →

John 3:16

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

John 2:13–17

The Passover of the Jews was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

Luke 23:24

Pilate decreed that what they asked for should be done.

Luke 10:27

He answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.”

Luke 10:20

Nevertheless, don’t rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.”

Matthew 22:36–40

“Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?” — read the full passage →

Matthew 6:14–15

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

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