Does the Bible mention jealousy?

Answer 1

Numbers 5:14 NIV
and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure-

Numbers 5:15 NIV
then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah [ That is, probably about 2 quarts (about 2 liters) ] of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder offering to draw attention to guilt.

Numbers 5:18 NIV
After the priest has had the woman stand before the LORD, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse.

Numbers 5:25 NIV
The priest is to take from her hands the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD and bring it to the altar.

Numbers 5:29 NIV
" 'This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and defiles herself while married to her husband,

Numbers 5:30 NIV
or when feelings of jealousy come over a man because he suspects his wife. The priest is to have her stand before the LORD and is to apply this entire law to her.

1 Samuel 18:1 NIV
[ Saul's Jealousy of David ] After David had finished talking with Saul, Jonathan became one in spirit with David, and he loved him as himself.

Psalm 78:58 NIV
They angered him with their high places; they aroused his jealousy with their idols.

Psalm 79:5 NIV
How long, O LORD Will you be angry forever? How long will your jealousy burn like fire?

Proverbs 6:34 NIV
for jealousy arouses a husband's fury, and he will show no mercy when he takes revenge.

Proverbs 27:4 NIV
Anger is cruel and fury overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?

Ecclesiastes 9:6 NIV
Their love, their hate and their jealousy have long since vanished; never again will they have a part in anything that happens under the sun.

Song of Solomon 8:6 NIV
Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy [ Or ardor ] unyielding as the grave. [ Hebrew Sheol ] It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. [ Or / like the very flame of the LORD ]

Isaiah 11:13 NIV
Ephraim's jealousy will vanish, and Judah's enemies [ Or hostility ] will be cut off; Ephraim will not be jealous of Judah, nor Judah hostile toward Ephraim.

Ezekiel 8:3 NIV
He stretched out what looked like a hand and took me by the hair of my head. The Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven and in visions of God he took me to Jerusalem, to the entrance to the north gate of the inner court, where the idol that provokes to jealousy stood.

Ezekiel 8:5 NIV
Then he said to me, "Son of man, look toward the north." So I looked, and in the entrance north of the gate of the altar I saw this idol of jealousy.

Ezekiel 35:11 NIV
therefore as surely as I live, declares the Sovereign LORD, I will treat you in accordance with the anger and jealousy you showed in your hatred of them and I will make myself known among them when I judge you.

Zephaniah 1:18 NIV
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the LORD's wrath. In the fire of his jealousy the whole world will be consumed, for he will make a sudden end of all who live in the earth."

Zechariah 8:2 NIV
This is what the LORD Almighty says: "I am very jealous for Zion; I am burning with jealousy for her."

Acts 5:17 NIV
[ The Apostles Persecuted ] Then the high priest and all his associates, who were members of the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.

Acts 13:45 NIV
When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and talked abusively against what Paul was saying.

Romans 13:13 NIV
Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy.

1 Corinthians 3:3 NIV
You are still worldly. For since there is jealousy and quarreling among you, are you not worldly? Are you not acting like mere men?

1 Corinthians 10:22 NIV
Are we trying to arouse the Lord's jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

2 Corinthians 11:2 NIV
I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy. I promised you to one husband, to Christ, so that I might present you as a pure virgin to him.

Answer 2

Bible mention jealousy which is sin. I cannot code a chapter for your reference and I can say the reality in bible is love without condition.

Answer 3

49 times in my Bible. Last two in James chapter 3

14 But if YOU have bitter jealousy and contentiousness in YOUR hearts, do not be bragging and lying against the truth. 15 This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is [the] earthly, animal, demonic. 16 For where jealousy and contentiousness are, there disorder and every vile thing are

Answer 4

16 times

Answer 5

It mentions that God is a jealous God in the OT. That's the only reference to jealousy that I can think of at this point.

Answer 6

Yes - one example:
Numbers 5:14
and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure-
Numbers 5:13-15
Also try coveting.
Bible Gateway has an excellent concordance for looking words up.

Answer 7

Exodus 20:5

Answer 8

Definitely. Try www.biblegateway.com.

Interestingly enough, God is a jealous God.

And yet, envy and jealousy are considered sinful.

I could explain, but I'll let you ponder it for yourself.

Answer 9

Yes, God is a very jealous God.
Exodus 20:5 Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God [am] a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth [generation] of them that hate me;

Answer 10

JellyBean - Yeah, lots of times. I am not going to bore you by pasting them all in here (I am sure someone else will)...just let you know it does recognize the emotion of jealousy. MG

Answer 11

Yes. many times.God said he was a jealous God.
The brothers of Joseph,sold him into slavery because they were jealous of their fathers love for him.Cain slew Abel because he was jealous over God choosing his gift over his. And many more times.Jealousy seems to be a trait man carries and its written about a lot.Jealousy causes great conflicts.