Top 21 Bible Verses About Jealousy

Update on by Pastor Jack Wellman

Here are our top 21 Bible verses about Jealousy. Jealousy indicates that we are not satisfied with what God has given us and we desire something that doesn’t belong to us. The Bible tells us to be happy with what we have, for God will never fail or forsake us. In order to defeat jealousy, we just need to become more like Jesus and less controlled by our human desires.

Enjoy your study on these top 21 Bible verses about jealousy.

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idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,
- Galatians 5:20
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And I will judge you as women who commit adultery and shed blood are judged, and bring upon you the blood of wrath and jealousy.
- Ezekiel 16:38
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How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever? Will your jealousy burn like fire?
- Psalm 79:5
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“Thus says the LORD of hosts: I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.
- Zechariah 8:2
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For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
- Psalm 78:58
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Shall we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?
- 1 Corinthians 10:22
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For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.
- James 3:16
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Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.
- Psalm 51:5
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Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death?
- Romans 7:24
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Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the LORD.
- Song of Solomon 8:6
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The LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
- Genesis 6:5
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None is righteous, no, not one; no one understands; no one seeks for God. All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.
- Romans 3:10-12
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Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—
- Romans 5:12
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The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?
- Jeremiah 17:9
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What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?
- James 4:1
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You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles?
- Matthew 7:16
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Even a child makes himself known by his acts, by whether his conduct is pure and upright.
- Proverbs 20:11
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The LORD lifts up the humble; he casts the wicked to the ground.
- Psalm 147:6
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For I know that nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh. For I have the desire to do what is right, but not the ability to carry it out.
- Romans 7:18
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for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,
- Romans 3:23
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There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
- Romans 8:1
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Total Quotes Found: 21

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