Jealousy (Bible Verses)

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James 3:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

Proverbs 23:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long.

Genesis 4:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell.

Genesis 4:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

Proverbs 3:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

Daniel 6:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

Genesis 21:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.

Genesis 37:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colors.

1 Samuel 18:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Saul cast the javelin; for he said, I will smite David even to the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice.

Genesis 37:18 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

Genesis 37:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

Proverbs 27:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Wrath is cruel, and anger is outrageous; but who is able to stand before envy?

Genesis 37:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And his brethren envied him; but his father observed the saying.

1 Samuel 18:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

Genesis 37:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?

Genesis 37:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;

Genesis 30:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son's mandrakes.

1 Samuel 18:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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?

Genesis 4:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.

1 Samuel 18:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Saul was afraid of David, because the LORD was with him, and was departed from Saul.

1 Kings 21:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Ahab came into his house heavy and displeased because of the word which Naboth the Jezreelite had spoken to him: for he had said, I will not give thee the inheritance of my fathers. And he laid him down upon his bed, and turned away his face, and would eat no bread.

Numbers 5:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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:

Genesis 37:30 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he returned unto his brethren, and said, The child is not; and I, whither shall I go?

Genesis 37:33 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he knew it, and said, It is my son's coat; an evil beast hath devoured him; Joseph is without doubt rent in pieces.

1 Samuel 18:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore Saul removed him from him, and made him his captain over a thousand; and he went out and came in before the people.

Genesis 37:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Reuben heard it, and he delivered him out of their hands; and said, Let us not kill him.

Numbers 12:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they said, Hath the LORD indeed spoken only by Moses? hath he not spoken also by us? And the LORD heard it.

Genesis 37:36 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh's, and captain of the guard.

Genesis 37:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Come, and let us sell him to the Ishmaelites, and let not our hand be upon him; for he is our brother and our flesh. And his brethren were content.

Proverbs 6:34 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance.

1 Samuel 18:29 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Saul was yet the more afraid of David; and Saul became David's enemy continually.

Luke 15:29 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

Genesis 37:20 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

Genesis 30:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And she said unto her, Is it a small matter that thou hast taken my husband? and wouldest thou take away my son's mandrakes also? And Rachel said, Therefore he shall lie with thee to night for thy son's mandrakes.

Genesis 37:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stripped Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colors that was on him;

Luke 15:30 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

Genesis 29:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Leah was tender eyed; but Rachel was beautiful and well favored.

Proverbs 6:35 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He will not regard any ransom; neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts.

1 Samuel 18:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.

Genesis 37:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Reuben said unto them, Shed no blood, but cast him into this pit that is in the wilderness, and lay no hand upon him; that he might rid him out of their hands, to deliver him to his father again.

Genesis 37:32 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they sent the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's coat or no.

1 Samuel 18:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son in law.

1 Samuel 18:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Saul eyed David from that day and forward.

1 Samuel 20:31 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.

1 Kings 21:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him, Why is thy spirit so sad, that thou eatest no bread?

2 Samuel 13:30 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.

Bible Theme & Topic Recap: Jealousy

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