Jealousy and Envy

[Kidron]

So what is the difference between envy and jealousy?

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If George Clooney is talking to your wife at Reba's party, and you see that your wife is enticed and entranced by his conversation, then you dont feel envy.
You feel Jealousy.
Jealousy is more possessive, whereas envy is more about "to covet".
Jealousy is not wanting to share in a possessive way, while envy is more about wanting somebody's stuff.
Envy can also be a fierce hatred based on an internal situation someone has when they know that they dont measure up to whatever or whomever they are envying.
God would feel, jealousy, when we "love other gods", but he would not envy us or the other Gods.

 

[smaller]

We are agreeing...If any Believer or un-saved person operate under the "LAW" they are curse. Also if any angel or person preach a different gospel they are double accursed (Gal. 1:8-9). However, I don't agree that this curse is passed down anymore.

I think we'd both agree that the devil and his messengers are cursed from generation to generation. I don't see Bible curses as "man applicable" only.

We might look at what/who was in Paul's own flesh and find a cursed one that is not Paul.

2 Corinthians 12:7
And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure.

We might even see that the evil present within anyone is cursed.

Romans 7:21
I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

A very large part of our Hope in Christ is to be delivered entirely from "evil."

Galatians 1:4
Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

 

[WIP]

This is enough of an answer for me.

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord.
"For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
So are My ways higher than your ways,
And My thoughts than your thoughts."
Isaiah 55:8-9 NKJV

O Lord,
You are our Father;
We are the clay, and You our potter;
Isaiah 64:8 NKJV

 

[Hospes]

Like anger, jealousy is not necessarily sin. If I get get angry, it very well may be sin. God's anger is just. Same with jealousy. In fact, his jealousy is for our good. For his children, He wants what is best for us. He is what is best. So he jealously desires to be our only God. For him to want less for us would be unloving.

 

[Sinthesis]

Obviously...
God is incapable of doing wrong...
So what is the difference between me being envious and God being jealous?

God being jealous is not for His benefit, but for the benefit of those He loves.

 

[smaller]

Like anger, jealousy is not necessarily sin. If I get get angry, it very well may be sin. God's anger is just. Same with jealousy. In fact, his jealousy is for our good. For his children, He wants what is best for us. He is what is best. So he jealously desires to be our only God. For him to want less for us would be unloving.

We have an illicit paramour in our flesh. That is the provocation of God to jealousy, wrath and tears.

Matt. 23:
37 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!
38 Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.

 

[JohnDB]

Exodus 34:14
Jealousy...Qana (H7862) is a Hebrew word used exclusively for God concerning his zealousness and desire for being the sole God that people worship.

Covet...Chamad...(H2773) is a Hebrew word used for longing for a specific object of desire. This can be wishing you were married to another man's wife (even if she isn't married yet) to wanting a particular car or horse.

Envy...phthonos...(G5784) is a Greek word used for desiring to deprive something from someone just because they have it. Different from Jealousy (which is God's pervue) and different from coveting this has more of a connotation of Judgment associated with it in the belief that the other person doesn't deserve what they have.
Romans 1:29

 

[Winnie]

Hi.
I was thinking since God created us for Himself, that is why He gets jealous. Since everything and every reason God creates is good, then us straying from that perfect design is what causes Him jealously since He created us in His own image He has feelings, too. It just shows how much He loves us.