Bible Verses About Jealous Women
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for jealous women, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,603 votes, led by Genesis 30:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Jealous Women
Genesis 30:1197 votes
And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
Song of Songs 8:6143 votes
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
Proverbs 27:4140 votes
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
James 3:14-16105 votes
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
1 Samuel 1:6104 votes
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.
Numbers 5:1482 votes
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:
Proverbs 14:3081 votes
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Proverbs 6:3477 votes
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Galatians 5:19-2175 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
1 Corinthians 3:356 votes
For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?
Numbers 5:29-3040 votes
This is the law of jealousies, when a wife goeth aside to another instead of her husband, and is defiled;
Genesis 4:5-638 votes
But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.
2 Corinthians 11:236 votes
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.
Genesis 16:4-530 votes
And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.
Genesis 16:528 votes
And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I have given my maid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: the Lord judge between me and thee.
1 Kings 21:2528 votes
But there was none like unto Ahab, which did sell himself to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.
James 4:2-328 votes
Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.
Genesis 30:1524 votes
And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son’s mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son’s mandrakes.
1 Samuel 1:2-724 votes
And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.
1 Samuel 1:6-724 votes
And her adversary also provoked her sore, for to make her fret, because the Lord had shut up her womb.
1 Corinthians 13:424 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Numbers 5:11-3120 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Job 5:220 votes
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
1 Kings 11:216 votes
Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.
Proverbs 30:21-2316 votes
For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:
What does the Bible say about jealous women?
Readers most often cite Genesis 30:1 on the subject of jealous women. Across 1,603 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Song of Songs 8:6, Proverbs 27:4, James 3:14-16. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.