Bible Verses About Jealousy (32 Verses)

"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. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work."

"Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another."

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

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

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

"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."

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

"Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long."

"Be not thou envious against evil men, neither desire to be with them."

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

"Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,"

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

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

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

"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."

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

"And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."

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

"Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves."

"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:"

"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?"

"Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;"

"Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart."

"But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another."

"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: But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell."

"But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart."

"Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."

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