jealousness
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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.
3And since there is still envy and contention among you, are you not carnal, and are you not walking according to man?
30The well-being of the heart is life for the flesh. But envy is decay for the bones.
14But if you hold a bitter zeal, and if there is contention in your hearts, then do not boast and do not be liars against the truth. 15For this is not wisdom, descending from above, but rather it is earthly, beastly, and diabolical. 16For wherever envy and contention is, there too is inconstancy and every depraved work.
19Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence, 20the serving of idols, drug use, hostility, contentiousness, jealousy, wrath, quarrels, dissensions, divisions, 21envy, murder, inebriation, carousing, and similar things. About these things, I continue to preach to you, as I have preached to you: that those who act in this way shall not obtain the kingdom of God.
6Groom to Bride: Under the apple tree, I awakened you. There your mother was corrupted. There she who bore you was violated.
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.
4Anger holds no mercy, nor does fury when it erupts. And who can bear the assault of one who has been provoked?
4Charity is patient, is kind. Charity does not envy, does not act wrongly, is not inflated.
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. 3You ask and you do not receive, because you ask badly, so that you may use it toward your own desires.
9And the Patriarchs, being jealous, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him.
13Let us walk honestly, as in the daylight, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in promiscuity and sexual immorality, not in contention and envy.
34For the jealousy and fury of the husband will not spare him on the day of vindication,
24For the Lord your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.