Bible verses about "jealousy" | LEB

Proverbs 19:5

5 A witness of falsehood will not go unpunished, and he who breathes lies will not escape.

Proverbs 14:30

30 A heart* of tranquility* is life to the flesh, but causes bones of passion to rot.

2 Corinthians 11:2

2 For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, because I promised you in marriage to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

Galatians 6:4

4 But let each one examine his own work, and then he will have a reason for boasting in himself alone, and not in someone else.

Philippians 2:3

3 Do nothing according to selfish ambition or according to empty conceit, but in humility considering one another better than yourselves,

1 Peter 2:11

11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and temporary residents to abstain from fleshly desires which wage war against your* soul,

Job 5:2

2 For vexation will slay the fool, and jealousy will kill the simple.

Romans 12:1-2

1 Therefore I exhort you, brothers, through the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God, which is your reasonable service. 2 And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

Romans 12:2

2 And do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, so that you may approve what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

Exodus 20:17

17 "You shall not covet the house of your neighbor; you will not covet the wife of your neighbor or his male servant or his female servant or his ox or his donkey or anything that is your neighbor's."

Galatians 5:19-21

19 Now the deeds of the flesh are evident, which are sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambition, dissension, factions, 21 envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, things which I am telling you in advance, just as I said before, that the ones who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Corinthians 3:3

3 for you are still fleshly. For where there is jealousy and strife among you, are you not fleshly, and do you not live like unregenerate people?*

Proverbs 27:4

4 Cruel is wrath and overwhelming is anger, but who will stand before jealousy?

1 Corinthians 13:4-5

4 Love is patient, love is kind, love is not jealous, it does not boast, it does not become conceited, 5 it does not behave dishonorably, it is not selfish*, it does not become angry, it does not keep a record of wrongs,

James 3:16

16 For where there is jealousy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.

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