Bible Verses About Jealousy

Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

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

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

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

This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;

For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

So will I make my fury toward thee to rest, and my jealousy shall depart from thee, and I will be quiet, and will be no more angry.

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:

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

They envied Moses also in the camp, and Aaron the saint of the Lord.

Or when the spirit of jealousy cometh upon him, and he be jealous over his wife, and shall set the woman before the Lord, and the priest shall execute upon her all this law.

Fret not thyself because of evil men, neither be thou envious at the wicked;

How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

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

For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

Thus saith the Lord of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.

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

They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

For he knew that the chief priests had delivered him for envy.

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

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

For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled;

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.

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

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

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

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

Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;

Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease.

Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off: him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer.

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

But when the Jews saw the multitudes, they were filled with envy, and spake against those things which were spoken by Paul, contradicting and blaspheming.

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him.

He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.