The Bible speaks about jealousy in relationships, highlighting both its negative consequences and the importance of cultivating healthy attitudes and behaviors. Jealousy is destructive because it often leads to conflict, bitterness, and broken relationships. It can damage trust and create an atmosphere of strife and division.
We need to cultivate love in our hearts because it does not envy or become jealous. Love seeks the well-being and happiness of others, rather than being consumed by self-centered desires or insecurities. God wants us to place our trust in him rather than being overly possessive or suspicious in relationships. Trusting in God’s faithfulness and guidance can help alleviate jealous tendencies.
We should be content with what we have, rather than coveting what others possess. This applies to relationships as well, where it’s important to appreciate and value one’s partner instead of being envious of others. Let us look at the following Bible verses that will help us to overcome Jealousy In Relationships.
1 Corinthians 15:33
“Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners”
Psalm 37:1
“Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity”
Galatians 5:26
“Let us not be desirous of vain glory, provoking one another, envying one another”
Titus 3:3
“For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another”
Proverbs 23:17
“Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long”
Hebrews 10:36
“For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise”
Exodus 34:14
“For thou shalt worship no other god: for the Lord , whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God”
1 Peter 2:9
“But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light”
James 4:11
“Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge”
Hebrews 13:5
“Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee”
James 3:6
“And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell”
Matthew 6:5
“And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward”
Romans 12:21
“Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good”
John 12:43
“For they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God”
Colossians 1:11
“Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness”
Psalm 41:6
“And if he come to see me, he speaketh vanity: his heart gathereth iniquity to itself; when he goeth abroad, he telleth it”
1 Corinthians 16:14
“Let all your things be done with charity”
Proverbs 14:30
“A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones”
1 Corinthians 13:4
“Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up”
1 Peter 3:7
“Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered”
Job 5:2
“For wrath killeth the foolish man, and envy slayeth the silly one”
Song of Solomon 8:6
“Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame”
Proverbs 6:34
“For jealousy is the rage of a man: therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance”
Matthew 5:28
“But I say unto you, That whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart”
Galatians 6:4
“But let every man prove his own work, and then shall he have rejoicing in himself alone, and not in another”
Colossians 3:19
“Husbands, love your wives, and be not bitter against them”
1 Peter 2:11
“Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul”
James 3:16
“For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work”
1 Corinthians 13:13
“And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity”
Revelation 1:1
“The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John”
Galatians 5:13
“For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another”
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”
James 4:2
“Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not”
2 Corinthians 11:2
“For I am jealous over you with godly jealousy: for I have espoused you to one husband, that I may present you as a chaste virgin to Christ”
Psalm 79:5
“How long, Lord ? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?”
Ephesians 4:2
“With all lowliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love”
Acts 7:9
“And the patriarchs, moved with envy, sold Joseph into Egypt: but God was with him”
Romans 13:8
“Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law”
Proverbs 3:31
“Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways”
1 John 4:18
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love”
1 Corinthians 10:13
“There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it”
Galatians 5:21
“Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God”
Joshua 24:19
“And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord : for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins”
1 Corinthians 13:3
“And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing”
Deuteronomy 4:24
“For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God”
1 Kings 14:22
“And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord , and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done”
Ezekiel 23:25
“And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire”
Galatians 6:2
“Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ”
Romans 13:13
“Let us walk honestly, as in the day; not in rioting and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and envying”
Exodus 20:17
“Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s”
2 Timothy 2:22
“Flee also youthful lusts: but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace, with them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart”
Psalm 109:3
“They compassed me about also with words of hatred; and fought against me without a cause”
Proverbs 14:15
“The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going”
1 Corinthians 10:22
“Do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?”
Ephesians 5:3
“But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints”
Romans 12:2
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God”
Ephesians 5:25
“Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it”
Philippians 2:3
“Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory; but in lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves”
