14 Bible Verses about Jealousy
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For it is from inside, from men's hearts, that designs of evil come; immorality, stealing, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, indecency, envy, abusiveness, arrogance, folly??23 all these evils come from inside, and they pollute a man."
For out of the heart come wicked designs, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witness, impious speech. It is these things that pollute a man, but not eating with unwashed hands!"
The things our physical nature does are clear enough??mmorality, impurity, licentiousness, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, quarreling, jealousy, anger, selfishness, dissension, party-spirit, envy, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you as I did before that people who do such things will have no share in the Kingdom of God.
Let us live honorably, as in the light of day, not in carousing and drunkenness, or in immorality and indecency, or in quarreling and jealousy.
Love is patient and kind. Love is not envious or boastful. It does not put on airs. It is not rude. It does not insist on its rights. It does not become angry. It is not resentful. It is not happy over injustice, it is only happy with truth.read more.
It will bear anything, believe anything, hope for anything, endure anything.
For we ourselves were once without understanding, disobedient, deluded, enslaved to all kinds of passions and pleasures. Our minds were full of malice and envy. Men hated us and we hated one another. But when the goodness and kindness of God our Savior were revealed, he saved us, not for any upright actions we had performed, but from his own mercy, through the bath of regeneration and renewal by the holy Spirit,
But if you cherish bitter feelings of jealousy and rivalry in your hearts, do not pride yourselves on it and thus belie the truth. Such wisdom does not come from above. It is earthly, animal, demon-like. For wherever jealousy and rivalry exist, there will be confusion and every low action.
The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into slavery in Egypt. But God was with him,
This aroused the high priest and all his supporters, the party of the Sadducees, and filled them with jealousy,
But when the Jews saw the crowd, they were very jealous, and they contradicted what Paul said and abused him.
This offended the Jews and they gathered some unprincipled loafers, formed a mob and started a riot in the town. They attacked Jason's house, to find them and bring them out among the people.
for you are still worldly. For when there are still jealousy and quarrels among you, are you not worldly and living on a merely human level?
for I am afraid that perhaps when I come I may find you not as I want to find you, and that you may find me not as you want to find me. I am afraid that perhaps there may be quarreling, jealousy, bad feeling, rivalry, slander, gossip, conceit, and disorder,
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The tribe of Gad » Assists » Assisted » Building » Altars » Jealousy
Jealousy » Divine
Or are we trying to arouse the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he is?
Jealousy » Examples of human » King saul
Jealousy » Instances of » Saul, of david
Jealousy » Instances of » Joseph's brothers, of joseph
Jealousy » An envious spirit
But I ask again, did Israel fail to understand? Why, to begin with, Moses said, "I will make you jealous of what is no nation at all, I will exasperate you at a senseless nation."
I ask then, has their stumbling led to their absolute ruin? By no means. Through their false step salvation has gone to the heathen, so as to make the Israelites jealous.
Jealousy » Examples of human » The labourers in the vineyard
and said, 'These men who were hired last worked only one hour, and you have put them on the same footing with us who have done the heavy work of the day and have stood the midday heat.'
Jealousy » Examples of human » Joseph's brethren
Jealousy » Instances of » Sectional, between israel and the tribe of judah
Jealousy » Instances of » The brother of the prodigal son
But his elder son was in the field. When he came in and approached the house, he heard music and dancing, and he called one of the servants to him and asked him what it meant. He said to him, 'Your brother has come, and your father has killed the calf he has been fattening, because he has gotten him back alive and well.' read more.
But he was angry and would not go into the house. And his father came out and urged him. And he said to his father, 'Here I have served you all these years, and have never disobeyed an order of yours, and you have never given me a kid, so that I could entertain my friends. But when your son here came, who has eaten up your property with women of the street, for him you killed the calf you have been fattening!' But he said to him, 'My child, you have been with me all the time, and everything I have is yours. But we had to celebrate and be glad, because your brother was dead, and has come to life, and was lost and is found!' "
Jealousy » Instances of » Nathan, of adonijah
Jealousy » Instances of » Joab, of abner
Jealousy » Examples of human » The men of ephraim
Jealousy » Examples of human » The elder brother
But he was angry and would not go into the house. And his father came out and urged him.
Jealousy » Instances of » Cain, of abel
Jealousy » Law concerning, when husband is jealous for his wife
Jealousy » Image of
Jealousy » Figurative
I feel a divine jealousy about you, for I betrothed you to Christ, to present you as a pure bride to her one husband.
Jealousy » Instances of » Sarah, of hagar
Jealousy » Instances of » Of jephthah
Jealousy » Instances of » Ephraimites, of gideon
Jewish » Jealousy
But when the Jews at Thessalonica found out that God's message had been delivered at Berea by Paul, they came there too, to excite and stir up the populace.
They had listened to him until he said that, but then they shouted, "Kill him and get him out of the world! A creature like that ought not to be allowed to live!"
But when the Jews saw the crowd, they were very jealous, and they contradicted what Paul said and abused him.
This offended the Jews and they gathered some unprincipled loafers, formed a mob and started a riot in the town. They attacked Jason's house, to find them and bring them out among the people.
I ask then, has their stumbling led to their absolute ruin? By no means. Through their false step salvation has gone to the heathen, so as to make the Israelites jealous.
Man's » Jealousy » Wrath
Man's » Jealousy » King saul
Man's » Jealousy » The labourers in the vineyard
and said, 'These men who were hired last worked only one hour, and you have put them on the same footing with us who have done the heavy work of the day and have stood the midday heat.'
Man's » Jealousy » Joseph's brethren
Man's » Jealousy » The men of ephraim
Man's » Jealousy » The elder brother
But he was angry and would not go into the house. And his father came out and urged him.
Offerings » Different kinds of » Jealousy
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Avoiding Jealousy
1 Corinthians 3:3for you are still worldly. For when there are still jealousy and quarrels among you, are you not worldly and living on a merely human level?
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