Jealous

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• Exodus 20:5

  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 34:14

  For thou shalt worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God:

• Deuteronomy 4:24

  For the LORD thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.

• 2 Corinthians 11:2

  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 4:5

  Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy?

• Deuteronomy 6:15

  (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 6:34

  For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

• Joshua 24:19

  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 14:30

  A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

• Psalms 79:5

  How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

• 1 Kings 14:22

  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.

• 1 Corinthians 3:3

  For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

• Song of Solomon 8:6

  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 10:22

  Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

• Ezekiel 39:25

  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 5:9

  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 42:8

  I am the LORD: that is my name: and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise to graven images.

• James 4:2

  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.

• Galatians 5:19–21

  Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

• Proverbs 27:4

  Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

• Psalms 78:58

  For they provoked him to anger with their high places, and moved him to jealousy with their graven images.

• Exodus 20:4–5

  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: 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;

• James 3:14–16

  But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth. This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

• 1 John 4:8

  He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

• Ezekiel 36:5

  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.

• 1 Kings 19:10

  And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.

• Deuteronomy 32:16

  They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods, with abominations provoked they him to anger.

• Romans 9:20–24

  Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why hast thou made me thus? Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour, and another unto dishonour? What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction: …

• Ezekiel 8:3

  And he put forth the form of an hand, and took me by a lock of mine head; and the spirit lifted me up between the earth and the heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the inner gate that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

• 2 Timothy 3:2–5

  For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; …

• Nahum 1:2

  God is jealous, and the LORD revengeth; the LORD revengeth, and is furious; the LORD will take vengeance on his adversaries, and he reserveth wrath for his enemies.

• Genesis 3:1

  Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?

• 2 Corinthians 6:14–15

  Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness? And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

• James 4:6

  But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.

• Isaiah 12:2

  Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.

• 1 John 1:9

  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

• Romans 10:13

  For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.

• Ezekiel 16:38

  And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will give thee blood in fury and jealousy.

• Zechariah 8:2

  Thus saith the LORD of hosts; I was jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was jealous for her with great fury.

• James 4:5–7

  Do ye think that the scripture saith in vain, The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy? But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble. Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.