'Jealous' in the Bible
Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my business? Are you jealous because I’m generous?’
“The patriarchs became jealous of Joseph and sold him into Egypt, but God was with him
But the Jews became jealous, and they brought together some scoundrels from the marketplace, formed a mob, and started a riot in the city. Attacking Jason’s house, they searched for them to bring them out to the public assembly.
But I ask, “Did Israel not understand?” First, Moses said:I will make you jealousof those who are not a nation;I will make you angry by a nationthat lacks understanding.
I ask, then, have they stumbled in order to fall? Absolutely not! On the contrary, by their stumbling, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.
if I can somehow make my own people jealous and save some of them.
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant,
For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
Let us not become conceited, provoking one another, being jealous of one another.
You are jealous and covet [what others have] and your lust goes unfulfilled; so you murder. You are envious and cannot obtain [the object of your envy]; so you fight and battle. You do not have because you do not ask [it of God].
Or do you think that the Scripture says to no purpose that the [human] spirit which He has made to dwell in us lusts with envy?