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NASB | Romans 13:13 Let us behave properly as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and sensuality, not in strife and jealousy. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Romans 13:13 Let us conduct ourselves properly and honorably as in the [light of] day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual promiscuity and irresponsibility, not in quarreling and jealousy. |
Bible Question (short): IfGodMakesPeopleJealous,Why is it Wrong? |
Question (full): This question grew out of my thinking about the second commandment. As a kid growing up I'd here people saying that jealousy was wrong for man. Then they'd have to turn around and argue how it was ok for God. I've never understood that. Why was jealousy thought to be wrong? In the civil law (Numbers 5) God does not forbid a man's jealousy. Num 5:14, "if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife when she has defiled herself, or if a spirit of jealousy comes over him and he is jealous of his wife when she has not defiled herself..." etc. So where does this concept that it's always wrong for a man to be jealous come from? At present I don't believe it's wrong. Just as our anger can become sin, I believe our jealousy can become sin. There are several examples of this in the NT (note the verse this question is posted under). But if jealousy were inherently sin for man, why would God and Paul induce the Jews to it? Rom 10:19 But I say, surely Israel did not know, did they? First Moses says, "I WILL MAKE YOU JEALOUS BY THAT WHICH IS NOT A NATION, BY A NATION WITHOUT UNDERSTANDING WILL I ANGER YOU." Rom 11:11 I say then, they did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression salvation has come to the Gentiles, to make them jealous. Rom 11:14 if somehow I might move to jealousy my fellow countrymen and save some of them. From the hip, Lionstrong |
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