Lexicon :: Strong's G2205 - zēlos

And his disciples remembered that it is written: Zeal for your house will consume me.

Then the high priest rose up. He and all who were with him, who belonged to the party of the Sadducees, were filled with jealousy.

But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began to contradict what Paul was saying, insulting him.

I can testify about them that they have zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.

Let us walk with decency, as in the daytime: not in carousing and drunkenness; not in sexual impurity and promiscuity; not in quarreling and jealousy.

because you are still worldly. For since there is envy and strife[fn] among you, are you not worldly and behaving like mere humans?

and not only by his arrival but also by the comfort he received from you. He told us about your deep longing, your sorrow, and your zeal for me, so that I rejoiced even more.

For consider how much diligence this very thing ​— ​this grieving as God wills ​— ​has produced in you: what a desire to clear yourselves, what indignation, what fear, what deep longing, what zeal, what justice! In every way you showed yourselves to be pure in this matter.

For I know your eagerness, and I boast about you to the Macedonians, “Achaia has been ready since last year,” and your zeal has stirred up most of them.

For I am jealous for you with a godly jealousy, because I have promised you in marriage to one husband ​— ​to present a pure virgin to Christ.

For I fear that perhaps when I come I will not find you to be what I want, and you may not find me to be what you want. Perhaps there will be quarreling, jealousy, angry outbursts, selfish ambitions, slander, gossip, arrogance, and disorder.

idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions,

regarding zeal, persecuting the church; regarding the righteousness that is in the law, blameless.

For I testify about him that he works hard[fn] for you, for those in Laodicea, and for those in Hierapolis.

but a terrifying expectation of judgment and the fury of a fire about to consume the adversaries.

But if you have bitter envy and selfish ambition in your heart, don’t boast and deny the truth.

For where there is envy and selfish ambition, there is disorder and every evil practice.