Proverbs 6:34

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

for jealousy kindles a husband’s rage, and he will not show mercy when he takes revenge.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 27:4 : 4 Wrath is cruel and anger is overwhelming, but who can stand before jealousy?
  • Song 8:6 : 6 The Nature of True LoveThe Beloved to Her Lover: Set me like a cylinder seal over your heart, like a signet on your arm. For love is as strong as death, passion is as unrelenting as Sheol. Its flames burst forth, it is a blazing flame.
  • Num 5:14 : 14 and if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is defiled; or if jealous feelings come over him and he becomes suspicious of his wife, when she is not defiled–
  • Num 25:11 : 11 “Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, has turned my anger away from the Israelites, when he manifested such zeal for my sake among them, so that I did not consume the Israelites in my zeal.
  • Judg 19:29-30 : 29 When he got home, he took a knife, grasped his concubine, and carved her up into twelve pieces. Then he sent the pieces throughout Israel. 30 Everyone who saw the sight said,“Nothing like this has happened or been witnessed during the entire time since the Israelites left the land of Egypt! Take careful note of it! Discuss it and speak!”
  • 1 Cor 10:22 : 22 Or are we trying to provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we really stronger than he is?

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