jealous
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5You shall not adore them, nor shall you worship them. I am the Lord your God: strong, zealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the sons to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me,
14Do not be willing to worship any strange god. The jealous Lord is his name. God is a rival.
24For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
2For I am jealous toward you, with the jealousy of God. And I have espoused you to one husband, offering you as a chaste virgin to Christ.
5Or do you think that Scripture says in vain: “The spirit which lives within you desires unto envy?”
15For the Lord your God is a jealous God in your midst. Otherwise, at some time, the fury of the Lord your God may be enraged against you, and he may take you away from the face of the earth.
34For the jealousy and fury of the husband will not spare him on the day of vindication,
19And Joshua said to the people: “You will not be able to serve the Lord. For he is a holy and powerful God, and he is jealous, and he will not ignore your wickedness and sins.
30The well-being of the heart is life for the flesh. But envy is decay for the bones.
22And Judah did evil in the sight of the Lord, and they provoked him beyond all that their fathers had done, by their sins that they committed.
5How long, O Lord? Will you be angry until the end? Will your zeal be kindled like a fire?
3And since there is still envy and contention among you, are you not carnal, and are you not walking according to man?
6Groom to Bride: Under the apple tree, I awakened you. There your mother was corrupted. There she who bore you was violated.
22Or should we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he is? All is lawful to me, but not all is expedient.
25Because of this, thus says the Lord God: Now I will lead back the captivity of Jacob, and I will take pity upon the entire house of Israel. And I will act with zeal on behalf of my holy name.
9You shall not adore and you shall not worship these things. For I am the Lord your God, a jealous God, repaying the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation to those who hate me,
8I am the Lord; this is my name. I will not give my glory to another, nor my praise to graven things.
2You desire, and you do not have. You envy and you kill, and you are unable to obtain. You argue and you fight, and you do not have, because you do not ask.