Bible Verses About Jealousy

"Surely resentment destroys the fool, and jealousy kills the simple."
Job 5:2 (NLT)

"For jealousy makes a man furious, and he will not spare
when he takes revenge."
Proverbs 6:34 (ESV)

"Wrath is cruel, anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?"
Proverbs 27:4 (ESV)

"Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm.
For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as enduring as the grave.
Love flashes like fire, the brightest kind of flame."
Song of Solomon 8:6 (NLT)

"For from within, out of men's hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from inside and make a man 'unclean’."
Mark 7:21-23 (NIV)

“These patriarchs were jealous of their brother Joseph,
and they sold him to be a slave in Egypt. But God was with him."
Acts 7:9 (NLT)

"For I can see that you are full of bitter jealousy and are held captive by sin."
Acts 8:17 (NLT)

"Let us walk properly as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness,
not in sexual immorality and sensuality, not in quarreling and jealousy."
Romans 13:13 (ESV)

"For while there is jealousy and strife among you,
are you not of the flesh and behaving only in a human way?"
1 Corinthians 3:3 (ESV)

"…idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes,
dissensions, factions, envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these,  of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you,
that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God."
Galatians 5:20-21 (NASB)

"There once was a man named Job who lived in the land of Uz. He was blameless—a man of complete integrity. He feared God and
stayed away from evil."
Job 1:1 (NLT)