Being jealous is not always wrong because God is a jealous God (Ex 20:5) that despises worship of other gods and so Paul wrote, “I feel a divine jealousy for you, since I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ” (2nd Cor 11:2). Jealousy is not a sin when you are jealous over something that belongs to you. Jealousy is a sin.The Bible teaches, “Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant” (1 Corinthians 13:4). We were made for Him. 1. Many people ask is jealousy a sin? It progressed to hatred and—like Cain’s—it would have culminated in murder. Keeping in step with the Spirit will help us to not live in our sinful nature, but rather live for Him. The Sin of Jealousy is everywhere, and as wives, we must be on guard. 9. Jealousy is sinful when it is for affections that don’t belong to you. Because it divides people. God is referred to in Scripture as jealous, and jealousy is referred to in Scripture as sin. God is a jealous God. A husband will be jealous if he sees his wife always hanging around another man. We are not to serve other gods. What is the sin of jealousy that this person who asked this question evidently is feeling eaten up by? 34:14); yet, in Galatians Paul condemns jealousy in the same breath as idolatry (Galatians 5:19–20). I could think of three things that make a desire for someone’s affections sinful. It destroys relationships, sows discord, and creates a spirit of bitterness and evil. Like Cain, Laban’s sin began with jealousy. Suppose you’ve decided to go to the beach, but upon sharing your plans with your jealous friend, they instantly tell you that it’s going to rain for the next few days. The sin of coveting jealousy and envy in our modern age a pastor told me coveting a one of the last commandments because it is a root commandment that can lead to so many other sins and anguishes. Genesis 37:4 And when his brothers saw that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably to him. It is not a sin to be tempted to envy, but if it is allowed to live and fester, it becomes destructive. Jealousy over what others have. In contrast to the sin of envy or jealousy, 1 Timothy 6:6 says that “godliness with contentment is great gain.” Envy or jealousy is the enemy of contentment because we cannot live in grateful contentment when focused on what we don’t have. The second commandment explicitly says that God is a jealous God (Exodus 20:4–5; cf. It causes people to act and speak in toxic ways. He created us. Jealousy can be a major relationship problem—a survey of marital therapists reported that romantic jealousy was a serious problem for a third of their clients. Another sign of that someone might be jealous of you is when they happily give you some bad news on the pretext of doing you a favor. 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