20 Bible Verses about

Overcoming Jealousy

Proverbs 27:4 BSB

Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?

Psalm 79:5 BSB

How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Romans 11:14 BSB

in the hope that I may provoke my own people to jealousy and save some of them.

Proverbs 6:34 BSB

For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

Psalm 78:58 BSB

They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.

James 3:16 BSB

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.

James 3:14 BSB

But if you harbor bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your hearts, do not boast in it or deny the truth.

Romans 13:13 BSB

Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

Isaiah 11:13 BSB

Then the jealousy of Ephraim will depart, and the adversaries of Judah will be cut off. Ephraim will no longer envy Judah, nor will Judah harass Ephraim.

Job 41:9 BSB

Surely hope of overcoming him is false. Is not the sight of him overwhelming?

Deuteronomy 32:16 BSB

They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.

Galatians 5:20 BSB

idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions,

Numbers 5:29 BSB

This is the law of jealousy when a wife goes astray and defiles herself while under her husband’s authority,

James 4:7 BSB

Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

1 Corinthians 10:13 BSB

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; He will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, He will also provide an escape, so that you can stand up under it.

1 John 1:9 BSB

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

Acts 3:19 BSB

Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,

Luke 13:3 BSB

No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.

2 Peter 3:9 BSB

The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.

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