50 Bible Verses About Jealousy

““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.””

“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:”

“or when the spirit of jealousy comes on a man, and he is jealous of his wife; then he shall set the woman before Yahweh, and the priest shall execute on her all this law.”

““You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.””

“They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.”

“for the precious things of the earth and its fullness, the good will of him who lived in the bush.i.e., the burning bush of Exodus 3:3-4. Let this come on the head of Joseph, on the crown of the head of him who was separated from his brothers.”

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

“Then the wrath of Elihu the son of Barachel, the Buzite, of the family of Ram, was kindled against Job. His wrath was kindled because he justified himself rather than God.”

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

“haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood;”

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

“The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.”

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

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

“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.”

“a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.”

“For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?”

“I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.”

““For from their least even to their greatest, everyone is given to covetousness. From the prophet even to the priest, everyone deals falsely.”

“He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.”

“Yahweh of Armies says: “I am jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I am jealous for her with great wrath.””

““You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor Leviticus 19:18 and hate your enemy.’not in the Bible, but see Qumran Manual of Discipline Ix, 21-26”

“For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.”

“covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.”

“You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder,’ ‘Do not commit adultery,’ ‘Do not steal,’ ‘Do not give false testimony,’ ‘Do not defraud,’ ‘Honor your father and mother.’”Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20”

“You know the commandments: ‘Don’t commit adultery,’ ‘Don’t murder,’ ‘Don’t steal,’ ‘Don’t give false testimony,’ ‘Honor your father and your mother.’”Exodus 20:12-16; Deuteronomy 5:16-20”

“His disciples remembered that it was written, “Zeal for your house will eat me up.”Psalm 69:9”

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

“backbiters, hateful to God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,”

“But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.”

“if by any means I may provoke to jealousy those who are my flesh, and may save some of them.”

“For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery,” “You shall not murder,” “You shall not steal,”TR adds “You shall not give false testimony,” “You shall not covet,” Exodus 20:13-15,17; Deuteronomy 5:17-19,21 and whatever other commandments there are, are all summed up in this saying, namely, “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”Leviticus 19:18”

“Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.”

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

“For behold, this same thing, that you were made sorry in a godly way, what earnest care it worked in you. Yes, what defense, indignation, fear, longing, zeal, and vengeance! In everything you demonstrated yourselves to be pure in the matter.”

“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.”

“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;”

“What was the blessing you enjoyed? For I testify to you that, if possible, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.”

“idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, outbursts of anger, rivalries, divisions, heresies,”

“envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.”

“Let’s not become conceited, provoking one another, and envying one another.”

“Some indeed preach Christ even out of envy and strife, and some also out of good will.”

“Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;”

“For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.”

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

“But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and don’t lie against the truth.”

“For where jealousy and selfish ambition are, there is confusion and every evil deed.”

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

“For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn’t the Father’s, but is the world’s.”

“But I have this against you, that you tolerate yourTR, NU read “that” instead of “your” woman, Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. She teaches and seduces my servants to commit sexual immorality, and to eat things sacrificed to idols.”