Bible Verses About Jealousy
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for jealousy, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,881 votes, led by Proverbs 27:4. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Jealousy
Proverbs 27:4305 votes
Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?
1 Corinthians 3:3290 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?
Exodus 20:17272 votes
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
Proverbs 14:30259 votes
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Galatians 5:19-21256 votes
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
James 3:16240 votes
For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.
James 3:14-16238 votes
But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.
Song of Songs 8:6170 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 13:4-5163 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Acts 7:9151 votes
And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him,
Romans 13:13139 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 6:34136 votes
For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.
1 Corinthians 13:4119 votes
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Job 5:299 votes
For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one.
Romans 12:289 votes
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
2 Corinthians 12:2080 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:
Genesis 37:1177 votes
And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.
2 Corinthians 11:272 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.
Proverbs 19:562 votes
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall not escape.
Philippians 2:358 votes
Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves.
Numbers 5:1455 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:
1 Samuel 18:852 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?
Exodus 34:1449 votes
For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:
Romans 12:1-246 votes
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service.
Galatians 6:446 votes
But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another.
What does the Bible say about jealousy?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 27:4 on the subject of jealousy. Across 4,881 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 3:3, Exodus 20:17, Proverbs 14:30. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.