Bible Verses About Jealousness
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for jealousness, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,854 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 Jealousness
Exodus 20:5168 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 34:14144 votes
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
1 Corinthians 3:3130 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?
Proverbs 14:30128 votes
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
James 3:14-16127 votes
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Galatians 5:19-21120 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Song of Songs 8:6116 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 27:4108 votes
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
2 Corinthians 11:2108 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.
1 Corinthians 13:493 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
James 4:2-385 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.
Acts 7:980 votes
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Romans 13:1376 votes
Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying.
Proverbs 6:3475 votes
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
Deuteronomy 4:2460 votes
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
1 Samuel 18:832 votes
And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
2 Corinthians 12:2024 votes
For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:
Numbers 5:1422 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:
Deuteronomy 5:920 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,
Deuteronomy 6:1520 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.
Genesis 37:1116 votes
And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
1 Corinthians 10:2216 votes
Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?
Genesis 4:4-515 votes
And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:
Exodus 20:4-512 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:
1 Samuel 18:8-912 votes
And Saul was very wroth, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
What does the Bible say about jealousness?
Readers most often cite Exodus 20:5 on the subject of jealousness. Across 1,854 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 34:14, 1 Corinthians 3:3, Proverbs 14:30. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.