Bible Verses about Jealousy

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Compiled by The BibleStudyTools Staff on 02/20/2024
Bible Verses about Jealousy

Bible Verses about Jealousy: Top Scripture Quotes

The Bible addresses jealousy in various passages, cautioning believers against harboring this destructive emotion. 

These Scriptures about jealousy emphasize the importance of contentment and trust in God's providence, discouraging the poisonous effects of jealousy on relationships and spiritual well-being.

Top Bible Verses about Jealousy

Proverbs 27:4 - Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

1 Corinthians 3:3 - For you are still of the flesh. For while there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?

Exodus 20:17 - “You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, or his male servant, or his female servant, or his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor's.”

Galatians 5:19-21 - Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Proverbs 14:30 - A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.

James 3:16 - For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

James 3:14-16 - But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast and be false to the truth. This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice.

Song of Solomon 8:6 - 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.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 - Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;

Discover more Bible verses about jealousy in this collection of scripture quotes:

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1 Corinthians 3:3

3 You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere humans?
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1 Corinthians 10:13

1 Corinthians 10:13
13 No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.
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1 Corinthians 13:4

Love is Patient, Love is Kind
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.
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Ecclesiastes 4:4

4 And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
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James 4:11

11 Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.
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Proverbs 14:30

30 A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.
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Proverbs 27:4

4 Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
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Psalms 143:8-9

Psalm 143:8 - Your Unfailing Love
8 Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life.
9 Rescue me from my enemies, LORD, for I hide myself in you.
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Romans 12:21

Your Daily Verse - Romans 12:21
21 Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.
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James 4:2-3

2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but you cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God.
3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
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Galatians 5:22-23

Is God's fruit showing through you? - Galatians 5:22-23
22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
23 gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
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1 Peter 2:9

You were not called to fit in!
9 But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
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1 Corinthians 1:27-29

27 But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong.
28 God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are,
29 so that no one may boast before him.
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Philippians 2:3

Philippians 2:3
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves,
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Psalms 37:1-3

Psalm 37:3
1 Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong;
2 for like the grass they will soon wither, like green plants they will soon die away.
3 Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
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James 3:14-16

14 But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.
15 Such “wisdom” does not come down from heaven but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
16 For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.
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Song of Songs 8:6-7

6 Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame.
7 Many waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If one were to give all the wealth of one’s house for love, it would be utterly scorned.
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James 4:7-8

James 4:7
7 Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8 Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
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Galatians 5:14-15

14 For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”
15 If you bite and devour each other, watch out or you will be destroyed by each other.
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Proverbs 6:34

34 For jealousy arouses a husband’s fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.
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Colossians 1:11

11 being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience,
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Ezekiel 16:42

42 Then my wrath against you will subside and my jealous anger will turn away from you; I will be calm and no longer angry.
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1 Timothy 3:10

10 They must first be tested; and then if there is nothing against them, let them serve as deacons.
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Hebrews 10:36

36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.
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