Scriptures about jealousy between people, in families, and in relationships.
10 Scriptures · Father’s Blessing Bible
Proverbs 14:30
A gentle heart is life to the body, but envy is rottenness to the bones.
Proverbs 27:4
Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; but who can stand before jealousy?
Song of Solomon 8:6
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is as strong as death; jealousy is as cruel as the grave; its flames are flames of fire, a most vehement flame.
Genesis 30:1
When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, she envied her sister and said to Jacob, “Give me children, or else I will die.”
Genesis 37:3–4
3 Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age; and he made him a tunic of many colors. 4 But when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and could not speak peaceably to him.
1 Corinthians 13:4
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;
James 3:14–16
14 But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not boast or deny the truth. 15 Such wisdom does not come down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic. 16 For where envy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil practice.
Numbers 11:28–29
28 Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant and one of his chosen men, responded: “Moses, my lord, stop them!” 29 But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put His Spirit on them!”
Matthew 20:15
Am I not allowed to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?
Galatians 5:19–21
19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, 20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, fits of rage, selfish ambition, dissensions, factions, envy, 21 drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
