Bible Verses About Jealous
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These are the Bible verses most often cited for jealous, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,317 votes, led by Exodus 20:5. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Jealous
Exodus 20:5198 votes
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Exodus 34:14189 votes
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Deuteronomy 4:24170 votes
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
2 Corinthians 11:2129 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.
James 4:5114 votes
Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?
Deuteronomy 6:1596 votes
(For the Lord thy God is a jealous God among you) lest the anger of the Lord thy God be kindled against thee, and destroy thee from off the face of the earth.
Proverbs 6:3493 votes
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Joshua 24:1992 votes
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
Proverbs 14:3088 votes
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
1 Kings 14:2280 votes
And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done.
Psalms 79:580 votes
How long, Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?
Song of Songs 8:676 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.
1 Corinthians 3:376 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?
1 Corinthians 10:2268 votes
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
Ezekiel 39:2564 votes
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Now will I bring again the captivity of Jacob, and have mercy upon the whole house of Israel, and will be jealous for my holy name;
Deuteronomy 5:962 votes
Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,
Isaiah 42:862 votes
I am the Lord: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.
James 4:255 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.
Proverbs 27:448 votes
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
Galatians 5:19-2148 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Psalms 78:5840 votes
For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.
Exodus 20:4-537 votes
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
James 3:14-1636 votes
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
1 John 4:827 votes
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.
Ezekiel 36:525 votes
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the heathen, and against all Idumea, which have appointed my land into their possession with the joy of all their heart, with despiteful minds, to cast it out for a prey.
What does the Bible say about jealous?
Readers most often cite Exodus 20:5 on the subject of jealous. Across 3,317 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 34:14, Deuteronomy 4:24, 2 Corinthians 11:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.