Scriptures about God’s jealousy: the Lord as a jealous God and zeal for the house of God.
12 Scriptures · Father’s Blessing Bible
Exodus 20:5
you shall not bow down to them or serve them, because I, the Lord your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation, of those who hate Me,
Exodus 34:14
for you shall not worship any other god besides the Lord [God], because His name is Jealous; He is a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 4:24
for the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Deuteronomy 6:14–15
14 Do not follow other gods, the gods of the peoples around you; 15 for the Lord your God, who is among you, is a jealous God. Otherwise, the anger of the Lord your God will burn against you, and He will destroy you from the face of the earth.
Joshua 24:19
Joshua said to the people, “You cannot serve the Lord [God], because He is a holy God, a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins.”
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of His government and peace there will be no end, upon the throne of David and over His kingdom, to establish it and uphold it with justice and righteousness from this time forward and forevermore. The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.
Zechariah 8:2
For this is what the Lord of hosts says: “I am exceedingly jealous for Zion; I am burning with great jealousy for her.”
Nahum 1:2
The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord takes vengeance and is fierce in wrath. The Lord takes vengeance on His enemies and will not spare His adversaries.
2 Corinthians 11:2
For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy; for I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
James 4:5
Or do you think Scripture says without reason: “He jealously longs for the spirit He has caused to dwell in us”?
John 2:15–17
15 Then, making a whip of cords, He drove everyone out of the temple, including the sheep and the oxen; and He scattered the money changers’ coins and overturned their tables. 16 And He said to those selling doves, “Take these things away from here! Do not make My Father’s house a marketplace.” 17 His disciples remembered that it was written: “Zeal for Your house will consume Me.”
Psalm 69:9
For zeal for Your house consumes me, and the reproaches of those who reproach You have fallen on me;
