The best Bible verses for jealousy include passages about God's love, strength, and guidance. This page features 15+ carefully curated Scripture passages for jealousy, each selected for its relevance and depth. Read, save, and share the perfect verse for your situation.
"When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and talked abusively against what Paul was saying."Acts 13:45
"When the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and talked abusively against what Paul was saying."Acts 13:45
"This is what the Lord Almighty says: “I am very jealous for Zion; I am burning with jealousy for her.”"Zechariah 8:2
"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 8:5
"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 5:14
"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 5:25
"“‘This, then, is the law of jealousy when a woman goes astray and defiles herself while married to her husband,"Numbers 5:29
"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."Numbers 5:30
"Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame."Song of Solomon 8:6
"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 8:3
"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."Ezekiel 35:11
"then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah 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 5:15
"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 5:18
"“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."John 3:16
"For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future."Jeremiah 29:11
Scripture returns to jealousy often enough that no single verse covers it. The 15 passages below come from across the Old and New Testaments, and they do not all say the same thing — read together they give a fuller picture than any one of them does alone.
Each links to a study page with the full passage, its context, and the text in six translations, so a verse that catches your attention can be followed properly rather than left as a fragment.
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The most-cited Bible verses for jealousy are Acts 13:45, Zechariah 8:2, Ezekiel 8:5. This page collects 15 of them, each with its full passage, context and the text in six translations.
Read the verse in its surrounding passage before you use it — a verse that fits in isolation sometimes says something different in context. Compare two translations where the wording is unclear, and pick for the person who will read it rather than for the theme.
Scripture returns to jealousy across both testaments rather than settling it in one passage, which is why the verses on this page do not all say the same thing. Read together they give a fuller answer than any single verse does.
There is no single best translation. The NIV and NLT read most naturally and communicate well to someone outside the church; the ESV and NASB stay closer to the original wording; the KJV carries the phrasing most people recognise. Every verse here links to a page showing all six side by side.
More than any page can list. This one carries the 15 that are most often turned to for jealousy, chosen so each stands on its own and links through to the full chapter it belongs to.