Jealousy
43 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
15 sections
- An Envious Spirit
- Attributed to God
- Cain, of Abel
- Ephraimites, of Gideon
- Figurative
- General Scriptures Concerning
- Image of
- Joab, of Abner
- Joseph's Brothers, of Joseph
- Law Concerning, when Husband is Jealous for his Wife
- Nathan, of Adonijah
- Sarah, of Hagar
- Saul, of David
- Sectional, Between Israel and the Tribe of Judah
- The Brother of the Prodigal Son
An Envious Spirit
- Romans 10:19 I ask instead, did Israel not understand? First, Moses says: “I will make you jealous by those who are not a nation; I will make you angry by a nation without understanding.”
- Romans 11:11 I ask then, did they stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Certainly not! However, because of their trespass, salvation has come to the Gentiles to make Israel jealous.
Attributed to God
- Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,
- Exodus 34:13–14 Rather, you must tear down their altars, smash their sacred stones, and chop down their Asherah poles. …
- Numbers 25:11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned My wrath away from the Israelites; for he was zealous for My sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in My zeal.
- Deuteronomy 29:20 The LORD will never be willing to forgive him. Instead, His anger and jealousy will burn against that man, and every curse written in this book will fall upon him. The LORD will blot out his name from under heaven
- Deuteronomy 32:16 They provoked His jealousy with foreign gods; they enraged Him with abominations.
- Deuteronomy 32:21 They have provoked My jealousy by that which is not God; they have enraged Me with their worthless idols. So I will make them jealous by those who are not a people; I will make them angry by a nation without understanding.
- 1 Kings 14:22 And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and by the sins they committed they provoked Him to jealous anger more than all their fathers had done.
- Psalm 78:58 They enraged Him with their high places and provoked His jealousy with their idols.
- Psalm 79:5 How long, O LORD? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?
- Isaiah 30:1–2 “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin. …
- Isaiah 31:1 Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their multitude of horsemen. They do not look to the Holy One of Israel; they do not seek the LORD.
- Isaiah 31:3 But the Egyptians are men, not God; their horses are flesh, not spirit. When the LORD stretches out His hand, the helper will stumble, and the one he helps will fall; both will perish together.
- Ezekiel 16:42 So I will lay to rest My wrath against you, and My jealousy will turn away from you. Then I will be calm and no longer angry.
- Ezekiel 23:25 And I will set My jealous rage against you, and they will deal with you in fury. They will cut off your noses and ears, and your survivors will fall by the sword. They will seize your sons and daughters, and your remnant will be …
- Ezekiel 36:5–6 Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that …
- Ezekiel 38:19 In My zeal and fiery rage I proclaim that on that day there will be a great earthquake in the land of Israel.
- Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.
- Zephaniah 3:8 Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation — all My burning anger. For all the earth will be …
- Zechariah 1:14 Then the angel who was speaking with me said, “Proclaim this word: This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘I am very jealous for Jerusalem and Zion,
- Zechariah 8:2 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I am jealous for Zion with great zeal; I am jealous for her with great fervor.”
- 1 Corinthians 10:22 Are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than He?
Cain, of Abel
- Genesis 4:5–6 but He had no regard for Cain and his offering. So Cain became very angry, and his countenance fell. …
- Genesis 4:8 Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
Ephraimites, of Gideon
- Judges 8:1 Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him violently.
Figurative
- 2 Corinthians 11:2 I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. For I promised you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
General Scriptures Concerning
- Proverbs 6:34 For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.
- Proverbs 27:4 Wrath is cruel and anger is like a flood, but who can withstand jealousy?
- Ecclesiastes 4:4 I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Song of Solomon 8:6 Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
Image of
- Ezekiel 8:3–4 He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. Then the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and carried me in visions of God to Jerusalem, to the entrance of the north gate of the inner …
Joab, of Abner
- 2 Samuel 3:24–27 So Joab went to the king and said, “What have you done? Look, Abner came to you. Why did you dismiss him? Now he is getting away! …
Joseph's Brothers, of Joseph
- Genesis 37:4–11 When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father loved him more than any of them, they hated him and could not speak a kind word to him. …
- Genesis 37:18–28 Now Joseph’s brothers saw him in the distance, and before he arrived, they plotted to kill him. …
Law Concerning, when Husband is Jealous for his Wife
- Numbers 5:12–31 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them that if any man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him …
Nathan, of Adonijah
- 1 Kings 1:24–26 “My lord the king,” said Nathan, “did you say, ‘Adonijah will reign after me, and he will sit on my throne’? …
Sarah, of Hagar
- Genesis 16:5 Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
Saul, of David
- 1 Samuel 18:8–30 And Saul was furious and resented this song. “They have ascribed tens of thousands to David,” he said, “but only thousands to me. What more can he have but the kingdom?” …
- 1 Samuel 19:8–24 When war broke out again, David went out and fought the Philistines and struck them with such a mighty blow that they fled before him. …
- 1 Samuel 20:24–34 So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat. …
Sectional, Between Israel and the Tribe of Judah
- 2 Samuel 19:41–43 Soon all the men of Israel came to the king and asked, “Why did our brothers, the men of Judah, take you away secretly and bring the king and his household across the Jordan, together with all of David’s men?” …
The Brother of the Prodigal Son
- Luke 15:25–32 Meanwhile the older son was in the field, and as he approached the house, he heard music and dancing. …
Related topics
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.