Bible Scriptures on Jealousy from God’s Word

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Bible Scriptures on Jealousy from the Word of God.

Deuteronomy 5:21 (NIV)
²¹"You shall not covet your neighbor's wife. You shall not set your desire on your neighbor's house or land, his manservant or maidservant, his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor."

James 3:16 (NIV)
¹⁶For where you have envy and selfish ambition, there you find disorder and every evil practice.

James 4:5 (NIV)
⁵Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely?

Psalms 37:7 (NIV)
⁷Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes.

Psalms 10:3 (NIV)
³He boasts of the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.

Proverbs 3:31 (NIV)
³¹Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways,

Bible Scriptures on Jealousy.

Proverbs 14:30 (NIV)
³⁰A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.

Proverbs 27:4 (NIV)
⁴Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

Ecclesiastes 4:4 (NIV)
⁴And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man's envy of his neighbor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Galatians 5:26 (NIV)
²⁶Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.

Proverbs 24:1 (NIV)
¹Do not envy wicked men, do not desire their company;

James 3:14 (NIV)
¹⁴But if you harbor bitter envy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast about it or deny the truth.

Proverbs 23:17-18 (NIV)
¹⁷Do not let your heart envy sinners, but always be zealous for the fear of the LORD.
¹⁸There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off.

Luke 12:22-23 (NIV)
²²Then Jesus said to his disciples: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear.
²³Life is more than food, and the body more than clothes.