How Can God Be Jealous And Love?

This has always been a hard one for me. Look at the following verses and you can see why.

Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me.

1 John 4:16
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.

1 Corinthians 13:4
Love is patient, love is kind and is not jealous ; love does not brag and is not arrogant.




It is very hard to understand. I have been trying to figure it out for a long time now. After a lot of thinking, I realized that you can't just name God one thing. It doesn't say God is just love, or God is just jealous, he is all. He made the universe, he can't be just one thing. He is all put together in one. In the Bible it is clearly stated that God can be angry, but it also states that God loves all. God is all things put together in One Great Being. You can't put him in a box a label it Love. It's impossible. God can what he wants whenever he wants to be it. God is perfect.