Mt 1:1 – The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Mt 9:27 – And as Jesus passed on from there, two blind men followed him, crying aloud, "Have mercy on us, Son of David."
Mt 12:23 – And all the people were amazed, and said, "Can this be the Son of David?"
Mt 15:22 – And behold, a Canaanite woman from that region came out and was crying, "Have mercy on me, O Lord, Son of David; my daughter is severely oppressed by a demon."
Mt 20:30 – And behold, there were two blind men sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, "Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!"
Mt 20:31 – The crowd rebuked them, telling them to be silent, but they cried out all the more, "Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!"
Mt 21:9 – And the crowds that went before him and that followed him were shouting, "Hosanna to the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! Hosanna in the highest!"
Mt 21:15 – But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that he did, and the children crying out in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David!" they were indignant,
Mt 22:42 – saying, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "The son of David."
Mt 22:45 – If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?"
Mk 10:47 – And when he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to cry out and say, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"
Mk 10:48 – And many rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"
Mk 12:35 – And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
Mk 12:37 – David himself calls him Lord. So how is he his son?" And the great throng heard him gladly.
Lk 18:38 – And he cried out, "Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me!"
Lk 18:39 – And those who were in front rebuked him, telling him to be silent. But he cried out all the more, "Son of David, have mercy on me!"
Lk 20:41 – But he said to them, "How can they say that the Christ is David's son?
Lk 20:44 – David thus calls him Lord, so how is he his son?"
2 Tim 2:8 – Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,
Rev 22:16 – "I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star."
Other references to Jesus being David’s descendant
Lk 1:32 – He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. And the Lord God will give to him the throne of his father David,
Lk 1:69 – and has raised up a horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David,
Lk 2:4 – And Joseph also went up from Galilee, from the town of Nazareth, to Judea, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and lineage of David,
Jn 7:42 – Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
Acts 13:34 – And as for the fact that he raised him from the dead, no more to return to corruption, he has spoken in this way, "'I will give you the holy and sure blessings of David.'
Cf. Isa 55:3
Rom 1:3 – concerning his Son, who was descended from David according to the flesh
Rev 5:5 – And one of the elders said to me, "Weep no more; behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has conquered, so that he can open the scroll and its seven seals."
Significance of “Son of David”
God’s promise to David (2 Sam 7:12-16; 1 Chr 17:11-14)
The throne of David and his son shall be established forever (2 Sam 7:16; 1 Chr 17:14)
Prophecies concerning the Son of David (Isa 9:6-7; 11:1-10; Jer 33:15-17; Ezek 34:23-24; 37:24-25; Hos 3:5; Amos 9:11; cf. Acts 15:16-17)
Jesus Christ is given the throne of David (Lk 1:32-33)
Jesus is David’s son as well as his Lord (Mt 22:42-45; Mk 12:35-37; Ps 110:1)
Jesus is also called the “Son of God,” a term signifying that Jesus is the anointed king (see <topic id=“755” startswith=“Jesus is God’s anointed king” nth=“1”>Son of God</topic>)
“Christ” linked to the Son of David [footnote text=“"Christ" means "the Anointed One."”]
Mt 1:1 – The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Mt 22:42 – saying, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "The son of David."
Mk 12:35 – And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
Lk 20:41 – But he said to them, "How can they say that the Christ is David's son?
Jn 7:42 – Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
2 Tim 2:8 – Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,
“Son of David” referring to Joseph
Mt 1:20 – But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, "Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Cf. Lk 1:27
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Gen 41:39 – Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Since God has shown you all this, there is none so discerning and wise as you are.
Ex 28:3 – You shall speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him for my priesthood.
Ex 31:3 – and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship,
Ex 31:6 – And behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
Ex 35:31 – and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship,
Ex 35:35 – He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver–by any sort of workman or skilled designer.
Ex 36:1 – "Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the LORD has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the LORD has commanded."
Ex 36:2 – And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the LORD had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work.
1 Kgs 3:9 – Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?"
1 Kgs 3:12 – behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.
1 Kgs 3:28 – And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
1 Kgs 4:29 – And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore,
1 Kgs 5:12 – And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
1 Kgs 10:24 – And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
1 Chr 22:12 – Only, may the LORD grant you discretion and understanding, that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the LORD your God.
2 Chr 1:10 – Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?"
2 Chr 1:12 – wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like."
2 Chr 2:12 – Hiram also said, "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, who has discretion and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
2 Chr 9:23 – And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
Job 32:8 – But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.
Job 35:11 – who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?
Job 38:36 – Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind?
Ps 19:7 – The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;
Ps 51:6 – Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Ps 105:22 – to bind his princes at his pleasure and to teach his elders wisdom.
Ps 119:27 – Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Ps 119:34 – Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart.
Ps 119:73 – Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.
Ps 119:66 – Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
Ps 119:98 – Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.
Ps 119:144 – Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live. Qoph
Ps 119:169 – Let my cry come before you, O LORD; give me understanding according to your word!
Prov 2:6 – For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
Prov 2:10 – for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
Prov 3:13 – Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,
Eccl 2:26 – For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Prov 2:7 – he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Dan 1:17 – As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
Dan 2:20 – Daniel answered and said: "Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belong wisdom and might.
Dan 2:21 – He changes times and seasons; he removes kings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding;
Dan 2:23 – To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter."
Dan 4:34 – At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;
Dan 4:36 – At the same time my reason returned to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and still more greatness was added to me.
Dan 10:1 – In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision.
Lk 21:15 – for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
1 Cor 12:8 – To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
Eph 1:17 – that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
Jas 1:5 – If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Jas 3:17 – But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
2 Pet 1:3 – His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
2 Pet 3:15 – And count the patience of our Lord as salvation, just as our beloved brother Paul also wrote to you according to the wisdom given him,
Be hidden by God
Can not be found
Job 28:12 – "But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
Job 28:20 – "From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding?
Job 32:9 – It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.
Job 32:13 – Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not a man.'
Prov 24:7 – Wisdom is too high for a fool; in the gate he does not open his mouth.
Eccl 7:23 – All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, "I will be wise," but it was far from me.
Understood by God
Job 12:13 – "With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
Job 28:23 – "God understands the way to it, and he knows its place.
Job 35:11 – who teaches us more than the beasts of the earth and makes us wiser than the birds of the heavens?'
Belonging to men
Ex 1:10 – Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land." [footnote text=“"Let us deal shrewdly" is literally "let us deal wisely."”]
1 Kgs 4:31 – For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.
Job 13:5 – Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
Ps 105:22 – to bind his princes at his pleasure and to teach his elders wisdom.
Ps 107:27 – they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits' end.
Isa 10:13 – For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I remove the boundaries of peoples, and plunder their treasures; like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
Isa 29:14 – therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden."
Isa 44:25 – who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners, who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,
Isa 47:10 – You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me."
Jer 8:9 – The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?
Jer 9:23 – Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
Jer 49:7 – Concerning Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
Ezek 28:4 – by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
Ezek 28:5 – by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth–
Ezek 28:7 – therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
Dan 2:30 – But as for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because of any wisdom that I have more than all the living, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your mind.
Dan 11:33 – And the wise among the people shall make many understand, though for some days they shall stumble by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder.
Hos 13:2 – And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, "Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!"
Obad 1:8 – Will I not on that day, declares the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
Zech 9:2 – and on Hamath also, which borders on it, Tyre and Sidon, though they are very wise.
1 Cor 1:19 – For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart."
1 Cor 1:20 – Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
1 Cor 1:21 – For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
1 Cor 1:22 – For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
1 Cor 2:5 – that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
1 Cor 2:6 – Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
1 Cor 2:13 – And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
1 Cor 3:19 – For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"
2 Cor 1:12 – For our boast is this: the testimony of our conscience that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
Col 2:23 – These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
1 Tim 6:20 – O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge,"
Belonging to the earth/unspiritual/demonic
Isa 3:3 – the captain of fifty and the man of rank, the counselor and the skillful magician and the expert in charms.
1 Cor 2:6 – Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
Jas 3:15 – This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
Rev 13:18 – This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.
Abilities given by wisdom to men
Ability to judge
1 Sam 3:8 – And the LORD called Samuel again the third time. And he arose and went to Eli and said, "Here I am, for you called me." Then Eli perceived that the LORD was calling the young man.
2 Sam 12:19 – But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David understood that the child was dead. And David said to his servants, "Is the child dead?" They said, "He is dead."
2 Sam 14:20 – In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth."
1 Kgs 3:9 – Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?"
1 Kgs 3:21 – When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead. But when I looked at him closely in the morning, behold, he was not the child that I had borne."
Ezra 8:15 – I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi.
Job 18:2 – "How long will you hunt for words? Consider, and then we will speak.
Prov 1:2 – To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight,
Prov 14:15 – The simple believes everything, but the prudent gives thought to his steps.
Prov 14:33 – Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding, but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools.
Prov 20:5 – The purpose in a man's heart is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Prov 23:1 – When you sit down to eat with a ruler, observe carefully what is before you,
Prov 28:11 – A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.
Prov 28:16 – A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.
Prov 29:7 – A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.
Eccl 1:13 – And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
Eccl 1:17 – And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.
Eccl 2:3 – I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine–my heart still guiding me with wisdom–and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.
Eccl 2:12 – So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.
Eccl 2:13 – Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness.
Eccl 7:23 – All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, "I will be wise," but it was far from me.
Eccl 7:25 – I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.
Eccl 8:1 – Who is like the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
Eccl 8:16 – When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see sleep,
Eccl 9:13 – I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.
Isa 14:16 – Those who see you will stare at you and ponder over you: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook kingdoms,
Jer 2:10 – For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has been such a thing.
Phm 1:6 – and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.
Ability to govern
Gen 41:33 – Now therefore let Pharaoh select a discerning and wise man, and set him over the land of Egypt.
Deut 1:13 – Choose for your tribes wise, understanding, and experienced men, and I will appoint them as your heads.'
2 Sam 20:22 – Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
1 Kgs 2:6 – Act therefore according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
1 Chr 12:32 – Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command.
1 Chr 27:32 – Jonathan, David's uncle, was a counselor, being a man of understanding and a scribe. He and Jehiel the son of Hachmoni attended the king's sons.
2 Chr 11:23 – And he dealt wisely and distributed some of his sons through all the districts of Judah and Benjamin, in all the fortified cities, and he gave them abundant provisions and procured wives for them.
Ps 78:72 – With upright heart he shepherded them and guided them with his skillful hand.
Ps 105:22 – to bind his princes at his pleasure and to teach his elders wisdom.
Prov 24:5 – A wise man is full of strength, and a man of knowledge enhances his might,
Eccl 7:19 – Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
Eccl 9:15 – But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
Eccl 9:16 – But I say that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.
Eccl 9:18 – Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
Acts 7:22 – And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
Ability to communicate
1 Sam 16:18 – One of the young men answered, "Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, a man of valor, a man of war, prudent in speech, and a man of good presence, and the LORD is with him."
Job 20:3 – I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
Job 32:6 – And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said: "I am young in years, and you are aged; therefore I was timid and afraid to declare my opinion to you.
Job 32:10 – Therefore I say, 'Listen to me; let me also declare my opinion.'
Job 32:11 – "Behold, I waited for your words, I listened for your wise sayings, while you searched out what to say.
Job 32:17 – I also will answer with my share; I also will declare my opinion.
Job 33:3 – My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.
Prov 11:12 – Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.
Acts 7:22 – And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
Col 4:5 – Conduct yourselves wisely toward outsiders, making the best use of the time.
Ability to understand
Job 20:3 – I hear censure that insults me, and out of my understanding a spirit answers me.
Prov 1:4 – to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth–
Prov 1:5 – Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,
Prov 1:6 – to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.
Prov 8:9 – They are all straight to him who understands, and right to those who find knowledge.
Dan 1:4 – youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.
Rom 14:5 – One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind.
Ability to discern
Prov 1:4 – to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth–
Prov 2:11 – discretion will watch over you, understanding will guard you,
Prov 3:21 – My son, do not lose sight of these–keep sound wisdom and discretion,
Prov 5:2 – that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
Prov 8:12 – "I, wisdom, dwell with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.
Prov 8:14 – I have counsel and sound wisdom; I have insight; I have strength.
Prov 22:20 – Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge,
Ability to create
1 Kgs 7:14 – He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.
1 Chr 28:21 – And behold the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God; and with you in all the work will be every willing man who has skill for any kind of service; also the officers and all the people will be wholly at your command."
1 Chr 25:7 – The number of them along with their brothers, who were trained in singing to the LORD, all who were skillful, was 288.
2 Chr 2:13 – "Now I have sent a skilled man, who has understanding, Huram-abi,
2 Chr 34:12 – And the men did the work faithfully. Over them were set Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight. The Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music,
Ability to learn
Judg 3:2 – It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.
Dan 1:4 – youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.
Acts 7:22 – And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was mighty in his words and deeds.
Ability to be prudent
Prov 14:8 – The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.
Benefits of having wisdom
Have speech that edify
Ps 37:30 – The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
Prov 5:1 – My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,
Prov 5:2 – that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
Prov 8:1 – Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice?
Prov 10:13 – On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.
Prov 10:31 – The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
Prov 15:2 – The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
Prov 15:7 – The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the hearts of fools.
Prov 16:21 – The wise of heart is called discerning, and sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness.
Prov 18:4 – The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
Prov 20:15 – There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Prov 31:26 – She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
Eccl 10:10 – If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.
Eccl 12:9 – Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care.
Gain blessings and gladness
Prov 3:13 – Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,
Prov 10:23 – Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.
Prov 23:15 – My son, if your heart is wise, my heart too will be glad.
Prov 27:11 – Be wise, my son, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him who reproaches me.
Prov 29:3 – He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
Eccl 7:11 – Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.
Eccl 10:10 – If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.
Gain deliverance
Prov 9:12 – If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if you scoff, you alone will bear it.
Prov 11:9 – With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.
Prov 19:8 – Whoever gets sense loves his own soul; he who keeps understanding will discover good.
Prov 28:26 – Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
Eccl 7:12 – For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Lead others to God
Deut 32:29 – If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end!
Prov 2:5 – then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
Col 1:28 – Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
Col 3:16 – Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Gain riches and honor
1 Kgs 4:31 – For he was wiser than all other men, wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol, and his fame was in all the surrounding nations.
Ps 105:22 – to bind his princes at his pleasure and to teach his elders wisdom.
Prov 14:18 – The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Prov 24:4 – by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.
Gain stability
Prov 9:1 – Wisdom has built her house; she has hewn her seven pillars.
Prov 14:1 – The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.
Prov 24:3 – By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;
Prov 28:2 – When a land transgresses, it has many rulers, but with a man of understanding and knowledge, its stability will long continue.
Gain hope
Prov 24:14 – Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Ways to gain wisdom
Hear carefully
1 Kgs 4:34 – And people of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
1 Kgs 10:8 – Happy are your men! Happy are your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
2 Chr 9:7 – Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
Job 32:10 – Therefore I say, 'Listen to me; let me also declare my opinion.'
Job 33:33 – If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."
Job 34:16 – "If you have understanding, hear this; listen to what I say.
Prov 1:5 – Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance,
Prov 1:20 – Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice;
Prov 2:2 – making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
Prov 4:1 – Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,
Prov 5:1 – My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,
Prov 8:1 – Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice?
Prov 8:33 – Hear instruction and be wise, and do not neglect it.
Prov 13:10 – By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
Prov 18:15 – An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Prov 22:17 – Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge,
Prov 23:12 – Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge.
Prov 23:19 – Hear, my son, and be wise, and direct your heart in the way.
Encourage and take advice
Job 32:7 – I said, 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.'
Job 26:3 – How you have counseled him who has no wisdom, and plentifully declared sound knowledge!
Job 33:33 – If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."
Ps 37:30 – The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
Ps 49:3 – My mouth shall speak wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be understanding.
Prov 5:2 – that you may keep discretion, and your lips may guard knowledge.
Prov 10:13 – On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.
Prov 10:31 – The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
Prov 13:10 – By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
Prov 15:2 – The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
Prov 15:7 – The lips of the wise spread knowledge; not so the hearts of fools.
Prov 16:21 – The wise of heart is called discerning, and sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness.
Prov 18:4 – The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
Prov 31:26 – She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
Eccl 12:9 – Besides being wise, the Preacher also taught the people knowledge, weighing and studying and arranging many proverbs with great care.
Keep and value wisdom
Prov 3:21 – My son, do not lose sight of these–keep sound wisdom and discretion,
Prov 2:10 – for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
Prov 4:5 – Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
Prov 4:7 – The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.
Prov 5:1 – My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,
Prov 7:4 – Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend,
Prov 8:10 – Take my instruction instead of silver, and knowledge rather than choice gold,
Prov 8:11 – for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
Prov 10:23 – Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.
Prov 12:1 – Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Prov 16:16 – How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Prov 20:15 – There is gold and abundance of costly stones, but the lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.
Prov 23:23 – Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
Learn and practice
1 Chr 15:22 – Chenaniah, leader of the Levites in music, should direct the music, for he understood it.
1 Chr 25:7 – The number of them along with their brothers, who were trained in singing to the LORD, all who were skillful, was 288.
1 Chr 25:8 – And they cast lots for their duties, small and great, teacher and pupil alike.
2 Chr 34:12 – And the men did the work faithfully. Over them were set Jahath and Obadiah the Levites, of the sons of Merari, and Zechariah and Meshullam, of the sons of the Kohathites, to have oversight. The Levites, all who were skillful with instruments of music,
Job 6:24 – "Teach me, and I will be silent; make me understand how I have gone astray.
Prov 4:1 – Hear, O sons, a father's instruction, and be attentive, that you may gain insight,
Prov 8:5 – O simple ones, learn prudence; O fools, learn sense.
Prov 9:9 – Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning.
Prov 10:14 – The wise lay up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool brings ruin near.
Prov 12:23 – A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.
Prov 15:14 – The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
Prov 17:27 – Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
Prov 30:3 – I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.
Consider and perceive
1 Kgs 10:4 – And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
1 Kgs 10:7 – but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report that I heard.
2 Chr 9:3 – And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
2 Chr 9:6 – but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not told me; you surpass the report that I heard.
Dan 1:20 – And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.
Prov 6:6 – Go to the ant, O sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
Prov 7:7 – and I have seen among the simple, I have perceived among the youths, a young man lacking sense,
Prov 17:24 – The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
Prov 29:19 – By mere words a servant is not disciplined, for though he understands, he will not respond.
Prov 30:24 – Four things on earth are small, but they are exceedingly wise:
Eccl 2:3 – I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine–my heart still guiding me with wisdom–and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.
Eccl 2:12 – So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.
Eccl 2:13 – Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness.
Eccl 7:25 – I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.
Eccl 8:16 – When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see sleep,
Eccl 9:11 – Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.
Eccl 9:13 – I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.
Give attention
Prov 2:2 – making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
Prov 2:3 – yes, if you call out for insight and raise your voice for understanding,
Prov 15:14 – The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
Prov 18:15 – An intelligent heart acquires knowledge, and the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Eccl 1:13 – And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
Eccl 7:25 – I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.
Eccl 8:16 – When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see sleep,
1 Cor 1:22 – For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom,
Walk in the way
Prov 4:5 – Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
Prov 4:11 – I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
Prov 9:6 – Leave your simple ways, and live, and walk in the way of insight."
Prov 13:16 – In everything the prudent acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.
Prov 15:21 – Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense, but a man of understanding walks straight ahead.
Prov 19:27 – Cease to hear instruction, my son, and you will stray from the words of knowledge.
Receive discipline
Prov 12:1 – Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
Prov 17:10 – A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool.
Prov 19:20 – Listen to advice and accept instruction, that you may gain wisdom in the future.
Prov 19:25 – Strike a scoffer, and the simple will learn prudence; reprove a man of understanding, and he will gain knowledge.
Prov 21:11 – When a scoffer is punished, the simple becomes wise; when a wise man is instructed, he gains knowledge.
Prov 29:15 – The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Prov 29:19 – By mere words a servant is not disciplined, for though he understands, he will not respond.
Be humble
Prov 11:2 – When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
Prov 14:8 – The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.
Prov 23:4 – Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.
Prov 30:2 – Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.
Be at peace
Prov 11:12 – Whoever belittles his neighbor lacks sense, but a man of understanding remains silent.
Prov 14:29 – Whoever is slow to anger has great understanding, but he who has a hasty temper exalts folly.
Prov 17:28 – Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
Be experienced
Judg 3:2 – It was only in order that the generations of the people of Israel might know war, to teach war to those who had not known it before.
Eccl 1:13 – And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
Eccl 1:16 – I said in my heart, "I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."
Be older
Job 12:12 – Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
Walk with the wise
Prov 13:20 – Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.
Characteristics of lacking wisdom
Speak as a fool
Job 34:35 – 'Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.'
Job 35:16 – Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge."
Prov 13:16 – In everything the prudent acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly.
Prov 14:7 – Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
Prov 15:2 – The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
Prov 17:28 – Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.
Prov 18:2 – A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
Be a scoffer
Job 32:9 – It is not the old who are wise, nor the aged who understand what is right.
Ps 58:5 – so that it does not hear the voice of charmers or of the cunning enchanter.
Prov 14:6 – A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.
Prov 18:1 – Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire; he breaks out against all sound judgment.
Love to do wrong
Prov 10:23 – Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding.
Be deceived and deceiving
Prov 14:8 – The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.
Be a fool
Prov 15:14 – The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge, but the mouths of fools feed on folly.
Led astray by wine
Prov 20:1 – Wine is a mocker, strong drink a brawler, and whoever is led astray by it is not wise.
Results of lacking wisdom
Destroy others
Prov 14:7 – Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge.
Prov 11:9 – With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.
Make the wrong choice
Prov 1:22 – "How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
Prov 15:21 – Folly is a joy to him who lacks sense, but a man of understanding walks straight ahead.
Prov 18:2 – A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
Be fools
Prov 12:23 – A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims folly.
Prov 14:18 – The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.
Prov 15:2 – The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools pour out folly.
Prov 17:16 – Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom when he has no sense?
Eccl 7:10 – Say not, "Why were the former days better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
Be deceived
Obad 1:7 – All your allies have driven you to your border; those at peace with you have deceived you; they have prevailed against you; those who eat your bread have set a trap beneath you–you have no understanding.
Commit sins
Prov 19:2 – Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.
Squander wealth
Prov 29:3 – He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
Receive God’s intervention
Job 5:12 – He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
Limitations of wisdom
Limitation of effectiveness
Job 6:13 – Have I any help in me, when resource is driven from me?
Ps 107:27 – they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits' end.
Eccl 9:11 – Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.
Eccl 9:18 – Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
Eccl 10:1 – Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
Isa 44:25 – who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners, who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,
Jer 49:7 – Concerning Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
1 Cor 1:17 – For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
1 Cor 2:1 – And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.
1 Cor 2:4 – and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
1 Cor 2:5 – that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
1 Cor 2:13 – And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
1 Cor 14:14 – For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays but my mind is unfruitful.
Eph 3:19 – and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Col 2:23 – These have indeed an appearance of wisdom in promoting self-made religion and asceticism and severity to the body, but they are of no value in stopping the indulgence of the flesh.
Limitation of knowledge
Job 13:2 – What you know, I also know; I am not inferior to you.
Job 15:2 – "Should a wise man answer with windy knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?
Job 15:8 – Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Job 15:9 – What do you know that we do not know? What do you understand that is not clear to us?
Ps 19:12 – Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.
Job 26:14 – Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
Job 36:29 – Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
Job 37:16 – Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,
Job 38:4 – "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
Job 38:18 – Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.
Job 38:20 – that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?
Job 39:26 – "Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south?
Job 42:3 – 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Ps 19:12 – Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.
Prov 20:24 – A man's steps are from the LORD; how then can man understand his way?
Isa 33:19 – You will see no more the insolent people, the people of an obscure speech that you cannot comprehend, stammering in a tongue that you cannot understand.
Limitation of authority
Job 21:22 – Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?
Job 38:2 – "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Prov 21:30 – No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the LORD.
Eccl 2:19 – and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.
Isa 29:14 – therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden."
Isa 44:25 – who frustrates the signs of liars and makes fools of diviners, who turns wise men back and makes their knowledge foolish,
Obad 1:8 – Will I not on that day, declares the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
1 Cor 1:20 – Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
1 Cor 2:13 – And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
1 Cor 3:19 – For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"
Limitation of life
Job 12:2 – "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
Job 14:21 – His sons come to honor, and he does not know it; they are brought low, and he perceives it not.
Eccl 2:15 – Then I said in my heart, "What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?" And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
Obad 1:8 – Will I not on that day, declares the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
1 Cor 13:8 – Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
Eccl 9:10 – Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
1 Cor 2:6 – Yet among the mature we do impart wisdom, although it is not a wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are doomed to pass away.
Its value may not be esteemed
Eccl 9:13 – I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.
Eccl 9:15 – But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
Eccl 9:16 – But I say that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.
Misuse of wisdom
Make one proud
Isa 10:13 – For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I remove the boundaries of peoples, and plunder their treasures; like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
Isa 47:10 – You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me."
Jer 9:23 – Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
Ezek 28:5 – by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth–
Ezek 28:17 – Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.
Dan 11:37 – He shall pay no attention to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women. He shall not pay attention to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all.
1 Cor 8:1 – Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up.
Col 2:18 – Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,
Become wicked
Ex 1:10 – Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, lest they multiply, and, if war breaks out, they join our enemies and fight against us and escape from the land." [footnote text=“"Let us deal shrewdly" is literally "let us deal wisely."”]
Isa 47:10 – You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me."
Jer 4:22 – "For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are 'wise'–in doing evil! But how to do good they know not."
Dan 8:23 – And at the latter end of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their limit, a king of bold face, one who understands riddles, shall arise.
Dan 11:30 – For ships of Kittim shall come against him, and he shall be afraid and withdraw, and shall turn back and be enraged and take action against the holy covenant. He shall turn back and pay attention to those who forsake the holy covenant.
Seek wealth
Eccl 2:21 – because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Ezek 28:4 – by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
Ezek 28:5 – by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth–
Ezek 28:7 – therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
1 Tim 6:5 – and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
Reject God’s wisdom
Jer 8:9 – The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?
Hos 4:6 – My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
1 Tim 6:5 – and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
Make idols
Jer 10:14 – Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.
Jer 51:17 – Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.
Hos 13:2 – And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, "Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!"
Follow fleshly desires
Rom 7:23 – but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members.
Col 2:18 – Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,
Jas 3:15 – This is not the wisdom that comes down from above, but is earthly, unspiritual, demonic.
Increase sorrows
Eccl 1:18 – For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Eccl 2:21 – because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Destroy oneself
Eccl 7:16 – Be not overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
Characteristics of the wisdom of God
It is revealed
Men and animals could not understand
Job 34:35 – 'Job speaks without knowledge; his words are without insight.'
Job 35:16 – Job opens his mouth in empty talk; he multiplies words without knowledge."
Job 36:12 – But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
Job 38:2 – "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 42:3 – 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Job 39:17 – because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding.
Ps 82:5 – They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Ps 92:6 – The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:
Isa 6:9 – And he said, "Go, and say to this people: "'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.'
Isa 6:10 – Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."
Isa 29:14 – therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden."
Isa 44:18 – They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand.
Dan 8:27 – And I, Daniel, was overcome and lay sick for some days. Then I rose and went about the king's business, but I was appalled by the vision and did not understand it.
Dan 12:8 – I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, "O my lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?"
Dan 12:10 – Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.
God makes it known to men
Num 24:16 – the oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered:
Ps 19:7 – The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;
Ps 119:130 – The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.
Prov 2:7 – he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Prov 2:9 – Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
Eccl 2:26 – For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Isa 11:9 – They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
Isa 29:24 – And those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction."
Isa 40:21 – Do you not know? Do you not hear? Has it not been told you from the beginning? Have you not understood from the foundations of the earth?
Isa 43:10 – "You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
Isa 52:15 – so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.
Jer 23:20 – The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.
Jer 30:24 – The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intentions of his mind. In the latter days you will understand this.
Dan 1:17 – As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
Dan 8:16 – And I heard a man's voice between the banks of the Ulai, and it called, "Gabriel, make this man understand the vision."
Dan 8:17 – So he came near where I stood. And when he came, I was frightened and fell on my face. But he said to me, "Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end."
Dan 10:1 – In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision.
Dan 10:14 – and came to make you understand what is to happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come."
Lk 24:45 – Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
1 Cor 13:2 – And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Eph 1:17 – that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
Col 1:9 – And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Col 1:10 – so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
Col 2:2 – that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,
1 Tim 2:4 – who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
2 Tim 2:25 – correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
2 Tim 3:7 – always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
Tit 1:1 – Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,
2 Pet 1:2 – May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
2 Pet 1:3 – His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
2 Pet 1:8 – For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Pet 2:20 – For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
It is transcendent
1 Kgs 4:29 – And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore,
1 Kgs 10:7 – but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report that I heard.
1 Kgs 10:23 – Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
2 Chr 1:12 – wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like."
2 Chr 9:6 – but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not told me; you surpass the report that I heard.
2 Chr 9:22 – Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
Eccl 1:16 – I said in my heart, "I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."
Dan 1:20 – And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.
Mt 13:54 – and coming to his hometown he taught them in their synagogue, so that they were astonished, and said, "Where did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
Mk 6:2 – And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, "Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands?
Lk 21:15 – for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
It is good
Prov 2:9 – Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
Prov 17:27 – Whoever restrains his words has knowledge, and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
Prov 19:2 – Desire without knowledge is not good, and whoever makes haste with his feet misses his way.
Rom 12:2 – Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Rom 15:14 – I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
Jas 3:13 – Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
Jas 3:17 – But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
Expressions of the wisdom of God
Knowledge of the Lord
Isa 11:9 – They shall not hurt or destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
Jer 3:15 – "'And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Hab 2:14 – For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD as the waters cover the sea.
Lk 1:77 – to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins,
Lk 11:52 – Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering."
Rom 2:20 – an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth–
Rom 10:2 – I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Rom 15:14 – I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
1 Cor 1:5 – that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge–
1 Cor 8:1 – Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Cor 8:7 – However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
1 Cor 8:10 – For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?
1 Cor 8:11 – And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.
1 Cor 12:8 – To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
1 Cor 13:2 – And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1 Cor 13:8 – Love never ends. As for prophecies, they will pass away; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will pass away.
1 Cor 14:6 – Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
2 Cor 2:14 – But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
2 Cor 4:6 – For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
2 Cor 6:6 – by purity, knowledge, patience, kindness, the Holy Spirit, genuine love;
2 Cor 8:7 – But as you excel in everything–in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you–see that you excel in this act of grace also.
2 Cor 10:5 – We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
2 Cor 11:6 – Even if I am unskilled in speaking, I am not so in knowledge; indeed, in every way we have made this plain to you in all things.
Eph 1:17 – that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
Phil 3:8 – Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
Eph 4:13 – until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Phil 1:9 – And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,
Col 1:9 – And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Col 1:10 – so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
Col 2:2 – that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,
Col 2:3 – in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Col 3:10 – and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
1 Tim 2:4 – who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
Tit 1:1 – Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,
Heb 10:26 – For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
1 Pet 3:7 – Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
2 Pet 1:2 – May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
2 Pet 1:3 – His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
2 Pet 1:5 – For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,
2 Pet 1:6 – and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
2 Pet 1:8 – For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Pet 2:20 – For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
2 Pet 3:18 – But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
The law
Neh 8:2 – So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month.
Neh 8:3 – And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.
Neh 8:7 – Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, helped the people to understand the Law, while the people remained in their places.
Neh 8:8 – They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.
Neh 8:9 – And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep." For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.
Neh 8:12 – And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
Neh 10:28 – The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,
Ps 19:7 – The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;
Hos 4:6 – My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
Mal 2:7 – For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
Lk 11:52 – Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering."
Rom 2:20 – an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth–
Rom 3:20 – For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
The way
1 Cor 1:21 – For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
1 Cor 2:4 – and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
Eph 4:13 – until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Col 3:16 – Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
1 Tim 2:4 – who desires all people to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.
1 Tim 6:20 – O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge,"
2 Tim 2:25 – correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
2 Tim 3:7 – always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
2 Tim 3:8 – Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.
Heb 10:26 – For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
The path
Job 21:14 – They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
Prov 2:9 – Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
Prov 4:11 – I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
Isa 58:2 – Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
Hos 14:9 – Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
Mysteries
Job 11:6 – and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
1 Cor 2:1 – And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.
1 Cor 2:7 – But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
1 Cor 13:2 – And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Col 2:2 – that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,
God’s will
Job 38:2 – "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 42:3 – 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Col 1:9 – And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Rom 12:2 – Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
The power of the wisdom of God
Power of understanding
Ps 119:27 – Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Ps 119:27 – Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Ps 119:34 – Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart.
Ps 119:73 – Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.
Ps 119:144 – Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live. Qoph
Ps 119:169 – Let my cry come before you, O LORD; give me understanding according to your word!
Prov 2:9 – Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity, every good path;
Isa 29:24 – And those who go astray in spirit will come to understanding, and those who murmur will accept instruction."
Isa 32:4 – The heart of the hasty will understand and know, and the tongue of the stammerers will hasten to speak distinctly.
Isa 52:15 – so shall he sprinkle many nations; kings shall shut their mouths because of him; for that which has not been told them they see, and that which they have not heard they understand.
Jer 23:20 – The anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intents of his heart. In the latter days you will understand it clearly.
Jer 30:24 – The fierce anger of the LORD will not turn back until he has executed and accomplished the intentions of his mind. In the latter days you will understand this.
Dan 1:17 – As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
Dan 8:16 – And I heard a man's voice between the banks of the Ulai, and it called, "Gabriel, make this man understand the vision."
Dan 8:17 – So he came near where I stood. And when he came, I was frightened and fell on my face. But he said to me, "Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end."
Dan 9:23 – At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word and understand the vision.
Dan 10:1 – In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision.
Dan 10:11 – And he said to me, "O Daniel, man greatly loved, understand the words that I speak to you, and stand upright, for now I have been sent to you." And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling.
Dan 10:12 – Then he said to me, "Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.
Dan 10:14 – and came to make you understand what is to happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come."
Dan 12:10 – Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.
Hos 14:9 – Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
1 Cor 14:15 – What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.
1 Cor 14:19 – Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.
Col 1:9 – And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Col 2:2 – that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,
Power of creativity
Ex 28:3 – You shall speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him for my priesthood.
Ex 31:3 – and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship,
Ex 31:6 – And behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
Ex 35:31 – and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship,
Ex 35:35 – He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver–by any sort of workman or skilled designer.
Ex 36:1 – "Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the LORD has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the LORD has commanded."
Ex 36:2 – And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the LORD had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work.
Power of judgment
1 Kgs 3:28 – And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
2 Chr 1:10 – Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?"
2 Chr 1:11 – God answered Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king,
Rom 12:2 – Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Mt 11:19 – The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds."
Lk 7:35 – Yet wisdom is justified by all her children."
2 Thess 2:2 – not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.
Rev 17:9 – This calls for a mind with wisdom: the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman is seated;
Power to carry out duties
Ezra 7:25 – "And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach.
Acts 6:3 – Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.
Acts 7:10 – and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
Power to speak
Job 33:3 – My words declare the uprightness of my heart, and what my lips know they speak sincerely.
Lk 21:15 – for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict.
Acts 6:10 – But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.
1 Cor 1:5 – that in every way you were enriched in him in all speech and all knowledge–
2 Cor 8:7 – But as you excel in everything–in faith, in speech, in knowledge, in all earnestness, and in our love for you–see that you excel in this act of grace also.
Power to counsel
2 Chr 2:12 – Hiram also said, "Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, who made heaven and earth, who has given King David a wise son, who has discretion and understanding, who will build a temple for the LORD and a royal palace for himself.
Isa 11:2 – And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
Results of having the wisdom of God
Receive honor
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
1 Kgs 4:34 – And people of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
1 Kgs 5:12 – And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
1 Kgs 10:4 – And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
1 Kgs 10:6 – And she said to the king, "The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,
1 Kgs 10:7 – but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report that I heard.
1 Kgs 10:8 – Happy are your men! Happy are your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
1 Kgs 10:23 – Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
1 Kgs 10:24 – And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
2 Chr 1:12 – wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like."
2 Chr 9:3 – And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
2 Chr 9:5 – And she said to the king, "The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,
2 Chr 9:6 – but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not told me; you surpass the report that I heard.
2 Chr 9:7 – Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
2 Chr 9:23 – And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
Eccl 2:9 – So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.
Dan 4:36 – At the same time my reason returned to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and still more greatness was added to me.
Acts 7:10 – and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
Get to know God
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Deut 32:29 – If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end!
Josh 4:24 – so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, that you may fear the LORD your God forever."
Prov 2:5 – then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
Isa 43:10 – "You are my witnesses," declares the LORD, "and my servant whom I have chosen, that you may know and believe me and understand that I am he. Before me no god was formed, nor shall there be any after me.
Isa 44:19 – No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, "Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?"
Dan 4:34 – At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;
Col 1:9 – And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Col 1:10 – so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
Col 3:10 – and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
2 Pet 1:3 – His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
2 Pet 1:8 – For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Receive blessing and grace
Neh 8:12 – And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
Eccl 2:26 – For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Isa 33:6 – and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is Zion's treasure.
Jer 22:16 – He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Is not this to know me? declares the LORD.
Lk 2:40 – And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him.
Acts 7:10 – and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
Eph 1:8 – which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight
2 Pet 1:2 – May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
2 Pet 3:18 – But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Receive authority
Deut 34:9 – And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
1 Chr 12:32 – Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, 200 chiefs, and all their kinsmen under their command.
1 Chr 22:12 – Only, may the LORD grant you discretion and understanding, that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the LORD your God.
Dan 4:36 – At the same time my reason returned to me, and for the glory of my kingdom, my majesty and splendor returned to me. My counselors and my lords sought me, and I was established in my kingdom, and still more greatness was added to me.
Acts 7:10 – and rescued him out of all his afflictions and gave him favor and wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who made him ruler over Egypt and over all his household.
Please God
Jer 3:15 – "'And I will give you shepherds after my own heart, who will feed you with knowledge and understanding.
Hos 6:6 – For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Lk 2:40 – And the child grew and became strong, filled with wisdom. And the favor of God was upon him.
Lk 2:52 – And Jesus increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man.
Rom 12:2 – Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Gain knowledge of salvation
Isa 53:11 – Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
Lk 1:77 – to give knowledge of salvation to his people in the forgiveness of their sins,
Rom 3:20 – For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Receive peace
1 Cor 1:10 – I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
1 Pet 3:7 – Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Receive life
Ps 119:144 – Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live. Qoph
2 Pet 1:3 – His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
Know what is hidden
Dan 2:23 – To you, O God of my fathers, I give thanks and praise, for you have given me wisdom and might, and have now made known to me what we asked of you, for you have made known to us the king's matter."
Dan 2:30 – But as for me, this mystery has been revealed to me, not because of any wisdom that I have more than all the living, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your mind.
Overcome enemies
Ps 119:98 – Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.
Have light within
Dan 5:11 – There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him, and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father–your father the king–made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers,
Dan 5:14 – I have heard of you that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.
Ways to gain the wisdom of God
Ask God
1 Kgs 3:9 – Give your servant therefore an understanding mind to govern your people, that I may discern between good and evil, for who is able to govern this your great people?"
1 Kgs 3:11 – And God said to him, "Because you have asked this, and have not asked for yourself long life or riches or the life of your enemies, but have asked for yourself understanding to discern what is right,
1 Kgs 3:12 – behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.
2 Chr 1:10 – Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?"
2 Chr 1:11 – God answered Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king,
Ps 90:12 – So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Ps 119:27 – Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Ps 119:34 – Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart.
Ps 119:73 – Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.
Ps 119:66 – Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
Ps 119:125 – I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies!
Ps 119:144 – Your testimonies are righteous forever; give me understanding that I may live. Qoph
Ps 119:169 – Let my cry come before you, O LORD; give me understanding according to your word!
Prov 28:5 – Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.
Isa 58:2 – Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
Dan 9:23 – At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word and understand the vision.
Dan 10:12 – Then he said to me, "Fear not, Daniel, for from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard, and I have come because of your words.
Lk 24:45 – Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures,
Eph 1:17 – that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
Col 1:9 – And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Jas 1:5 – If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him.
Learn God’s words
Ezra 8:16 – Then I sent for Eliezer, Ariel, Shemaiah, Elnathan, Jarib, Elnathan, Nathan, Zechariah, and Meshullam, leading men, and for Joiarib and Elnathan, who were men of insight,
Neh 8:2 – So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month.
Neh 8:3 – And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.
Neh 8:7 – Also Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, the Levites, helped the people to understand the Law, while the people remained in their places.
Neh 8:8 – They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading.
Neh 8:9 – And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep." For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.
Neh 8:12 – And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them.
Neh 10:28 – The rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the temple servants, and all who have separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, their daughters, all who have knowledge and understanding,
Ps 19:7 – The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;
Ps 119:27 – Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Ps 119:73 – Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.
Ps 119:95 – The wicked lie in wait to destroy me, but I consider your testimonies.
Ps 119:104 – Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
Ps 119:125 – I am your servant; give me understanding, that I may know your testimonies!
Ps 119:130 – The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.
Ps 119:169 – Let my cry come before you, O LORD; give me understanding according to your word!
Mal 2:7 – For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the LORD of hosts.
Be filled with God’s spirit
Deut 34:9 – And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Ex 28:3 – You shall speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him for my priesthood.
Ex 31:3 – and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship,
Ex 31:6 – And behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
Ex 35:31 – and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship,
Job 32:8 – But it is the spirit in man, the breath of the Almighty, that makes him understand.
Isa 11:2 – And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
Dan 5:11 – There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods. In the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods were found in him, and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father–your father the king–made him chief of the magicians, enchanters, Chaldeans, and astrologers,
Dan 5:12 – because an excellent spirit, knowledge, and understanding to interpret dreams, explain riddles, and solve problems were found in this Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar. Now let Daniel be called, and he will show the interpretation."
Dan 5:14 – I have heard of you that the spirit of the gods is in you, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.
Acts 6:3 – Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty.
Acts 6:10 – But they could not withstand the wisdom and the Spirit with which he was speaking.
1 Cor 2:4 – and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
1 Cor 2:13 – And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual.
1 Cor 12:8 – To one is given through the Spirit the utterance of wisdom, and to another the utterance of knowledge according to the same Spirit,
Eph 1:17 – that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
Observe all creation
Job 26:12 – By his power he stilled the sea; by his understanding he shattered Rahab.
Job 33:33 – If not, listen to me; be silent, and I will teach you wisdom."
Job 36:29 – Can anyone understand the spreading of the clouds, the thunderings of his pavilion?
Job 37:14 – "Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.
Job 37:16 – Do you know the balancings of the clouds, the wondrous works of him who is perfect in knowledge,
Job 38:4 – "Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding.
Job 38:18 – Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.
Job 38:20 – that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?
Job 38:36 – Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind?
Job 38:37 – Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,
Job 39:17 – because God has made her forget wisdom and given her no share in understanding.
Job 39:26 – "Is it by your understanding that the hawk soars and spreads his wings toward the south?
Ps 19:2 – Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.
Seek the knowledge of Christ
2 Cor 2:14 – But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
2 Cor 4:6 – For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Eph 4:13 – until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Phil 3:8 – Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
Col 1:28 – Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
Col 2:2 – that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,
Col 2:3 – in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Col 3:16 – Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
2 Pet 1:2 – May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.
2 Pet 1:3 – His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence,
2 Pet 1:8 – For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Pet 2:20 – For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
2 Pet 3:18 – But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Follow God’s words
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Ps 51:6 – Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Ps 111:10 – The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Ps 119:66 – Teach me good judgment and knowledge, for I believe in your commandments.
Ps 119:100 – I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts.
Prov 2:7 – he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,
Prov 28:5 – Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.
Prov 28:7 – The one who keeps the law is a son with understanding, but a companion of gluttons shames his father.
Isa 58:2 – Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as if they were a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the judgment of their God; they ask of me righteous judgments; they delight to draw near to God.
Col 1:10 – so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God.
Jas 3:13 – Who is wise and understanding among you? By his good conduct let him show his works in the meekness of wisdom.
2 Pet 1:5 – For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,
2 Pet 1:6 – and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
Consider the works of God
Deut 32:7 – Remember the days of old; consider the years of many generations; ask your father, and he will show you, your elders, and they will tell you.
Deut 32:29 – If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern their latter end!
Job 23:15 – Therefore I am terrified at his presence; when I consider, I am in dread of him.
Job 37:14 – "Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.
Ps 49:3 – My mouth shall speak wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be understanding.
Ps 73:17 – until I went into the sanctuary of God; then I discerned their end.
Ps 107:43 – Whoever is wise, let him attend to these things; let them consider the steadfast love of the LORD.
Ps 119:27 – Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works.
Ps 119:95 – The wicked lie in wait to destroy me, but I consider your testimonies.
Ps 119:98 – Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me.
Jer 2:10 – For cross to the coasts of Cyprus and see, or send to Kedar and examine with care; see if there has been such a thing.
Jer 9:12 – Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
Jer 9:17 – Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come;
Dan 8:5 – As I was considering, behold, a male goat came from the west across the face of the whole earth, without touching the ground. And the goat had a conspicuous horn between his eyes.
Hear the words of God
Num 24:16 – the oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered:
1 Kgs 10:24 – And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
2 Chr 9:23 – And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
Neh 8:2 – So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard, on the first day of the seventh month.
Neh 8:3 – And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law.
Neh 8:9 – And Nehemiah, who was the governor, and Ezra the priest and scribe, and the Levites who taught the people said to all the people, "This day is holy to the LORD your God; do not mourn or weep." For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law.
Job 13:1 – "Behold, my eye has seen all this, my ear has heard and understood it.
Job 37:14 – "Hear this, O Job; stop and consider the wondrous works of God.
Isa 40:28 – Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Hos 4:1 – Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;
Mic 6:9 – The voice of the LORD cries to the city–and it is sound wisdom to fear your name: "Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it!
Fear God
Job 28:28 – And he said to man, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'"
Ps 111:10 – The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Prov 1:7 – The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Prov 2:5 – then you will understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of God.
Prov 9:10 – The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Prov 15:33 – The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
Isa 33:6 – and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is Zion's treasure.
Dan 4:34 – At the end of the days I, Nebuchadnezzar, lifted my eyes to heaven, and my reason returned to me, and I blessed the Most High, and praised and honored him who lives forever, for his dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom endures from generation to generation;
Mic 6:9 – The voice of the LORD cries to the city–and it is sound wisdom to fear your name: "Hear of the rod and of him who appointed it!
Receive visions
Num 24:16 – the oracle of him who hears the words of God, and knows the knowledge of the Most High, who sees the vision of the Almighty, falling down with his eyes uncovered:
Dan 8:15 – When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. And behold, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.
Dan 8:16 – And I heard a man's voice between the banks of the Ulai, and it called, "Gabriel, make this man understand the vision."
Dan 8:17 – So he came near where I stood. And when he came, I was frightened and fell on my face. But he said to me, "Understand, O son of man, that the vision is for the time of the end."
Dan 9:23 – At the beginning of your pleas for mercy a word went out, and I have come to tell it to you, for you are greatly loved. Therefore consider the word and understand the vision.
Dan 10:1 – In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a word was revealed to Daniel, who was named Belteshazzar. And the word was true, and it was a great conflict. And he understood the word and had understanding of the vision.
Dan 10:14 – and came to make you understand what is to happen to your people in the latter days. For the vision is for days yet to come."
Repent and be renewed
Rom 7:25 – Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Rom 12:2 – Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
Eph 4:23 – and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
Col 3:10 – and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator.
2 Tim 2:25 – correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth,
Seek God
1 Chr 28:9 – "And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Prov 9:10 – The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Prov 28:5 – Evil men do not understand justice, but those who seek the LORD understand it completely.
Hos 6:6 – For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Depart from evil
Job 28:28 – And he said to man, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'"
Ps 119:104 – Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way. Nun
1 Tim 6:20 – O Timothy, guard the deposit entrusted to you. Avoid the irreverent babble and contradictions of what is falsely called "knowledge,"
Trust in the Lord
Prov 3:5 – Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
2 Cor 1:12 – For our boast is this: the testimony of our conscience that we behaved in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity, not by earthly wisdom but by the grace of God, and supremely so toward you.
Instruct one another
Ps 49:3 – My mouth shall speak wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be understanding.
Rom 15:14 – I myself am satisfied about you, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge and able to instruct one another.
1 Cor 14:6 – Now, brothers, if I come to you speaking in tongues, how will I benefit you unless I bring you some revelation or knowledge or prophecy or teaching?
Purify oneself
Dan 12:10 – Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.
Through the church
Eph 3:10 – so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.
Attitude
Be proactive
Dan 8:15 – When I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought to understand it. And behold, there stood before me one having the appearance of a man.
Dan 12:8 – I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, "O my lord, what shall be the outcome of these things?"
Phil 1:9 – And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,
Col 2:2 – that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,
2 Pet 1:5 – For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,
2 Pet 1:6 – and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
2 Pet 3:18 – But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Be humble
Prov 15:33 – The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
Prov 30:2 – Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.
Prov 30:3 – I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.
2 Cor 10:5 – We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
Treasures
Isa 33:6 – and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is Zion's treasure.
Phil 3:8 – Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ．
Pursuits after receiving the wisdom of God
Continue to grow
Ps 49:3 – My mouth shall speak wisdom; the meditation of my heart shall be understanding.
Phil 1:9 – And it is my prayer that your love may abound more and more, with knowledge and all discernment,
Col 2:2 – that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,
2 Pet 1:5 – For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge,
2 Pet 1:6 – and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,
2 Pet 1:8 – For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Pet 3:18 – But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
Follow God’s words
1 Chr 22:12 – Only, may the LORD grant you discretion and understanding, that when he gives you charge over Israel you may keep the law of the LORD your God.
Ps 119:34 – Give me understanding, that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart.
Grow in love
1 Cor 8:1 – Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up.
1 Cor 13:2 – And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Keep pure
Heb 10:26 – For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
2 Pet 2:20 – For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
Characteristics for the lack of the wisdom of God
Pride and arrogance
1 Sam 2:3 – Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Prov 1:7 – The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Prov 1:22 – "How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
Prov 28:11 – A rich man is wise in his own eyes, but a poor man who has understanding will find him out.
Prov 28:26 – Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
Isa 5:21 – Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
Isa 10:13 – For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I remove the boundaries of peoples, and plunder their treasures; like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
Isa 28:9 – "To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?
Isa 47:10 – You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me."
Jer 9:23 – Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
Ezek 28:5 – by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth–
Ezek 28:17 – Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.
Dan 11:37 – He shall pay no attention to the gods of his fathers, or to the one beloved by women. He shall not pay attention to any other god, for he shall magnify himself above all.
Col 2:18 – Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,
2 Cor 10:5 – We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
No understanding
Deut 32:28 – "For they are a nation void of counsel, and there is no understanding in them.
Ps 28:5 – Because they do not regard the works of the LORD or the work of his hands, he will tear them down and build them up no more.
Ps 49:20 – Man in his pomp yet without understanding is like the beasts that perish.
Ps 50:22 – "Mark this, then, you who forget God, lest I tear you apart, and there be none to deliver!
Ps 82:5 – They have neither knowledge nor understanding, they walk about in darkness; all the foundations of the earth are shaken.
Ps 92:6 – The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:
Ps 94:8 – Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?
Isa 1:3 – The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand."
Isa 57:1 – The righteous man perishes, and no one lays it to heart; devout men are taken away, while no one understands. For the righteous man is taken away from calamity;
Wickedness
Ps 32:9 – Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you.
Eccl 2:26 – For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Isa 47:10 – You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me."
Isa 56:11 – The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. But they are shepherds who have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.
Jer 4:22 – "For my people are foolish; they know me not; they are stupid children; they have no understanding. They are 'wise'–in doing evil! But how to do good they know not."
Dan 12:10 – Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.
Col 2:18 – Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,
Tit 1:15 – To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
2 Pet 2:20 – For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
Refusal to love the truth
Job 21:14 – They say to God, 'Depart from us! We do not desire the knowledge of your ways.
Prov 1:22 – "How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
Prov 1:29 – Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD,
Prov 18:2 – A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion.
Isa 28:9 – "To whom will he teach knowledge, and to whom will he explain the message? Those who are weaned from the milk, those taken from the breast?
1 Cor 1:21 – For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
1 Tim 6:5 – and constant friction among people who are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, imagining that godliness is a means of gain.
2 Tim 3:8 – Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so these men also oppose the truth, men corrupted in mind and disqualified regarding the faith.
Speaking without knowledge
Job 38:2 – "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 42:3 – 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
No fear of the Lord
Prov 1:29 – Because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the LORD,
Results of the lack of the wisdom of God
Unable to understand
Isa 6:9 – And he said, "Go, and say to this people: "'Keep on hearing, but do not understand; keep on seeing, but do not perceive.'
Isa 6:10 – Make the heart of this people dull, and their ears heavy, and blind their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed."
Isa 44:18 – They know not, nor do they discern, for he has shut their eyes, so that they cannot see, and their hearts, so that they cannot understand.
Isa 56:11 – The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. But they are shepherds who have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, each to his own gain, one and all.
Dan 12:4 – But you, Daniel, shut up the words and seal the book, until the time of the end. Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase."
Dan 12:10 – Many shall purify themselves and make themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who are wise shall understand.
Hos 14:9 – Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.
Mic 4:12 – But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.
Rom 1:28 – And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
2 Tim 3:7 – always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.
Die
Gen 2:17 – but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die."
Job 4:21 – Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?'
Job 12:2 – "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
Job 36:12 – But if they do not listen, they perish by the sword and die without knowledge.
Jer 9:12 – Who is the man so wise that he can understand this? To whom has the mouth of the LORD spoken, that he may declare it? Why is the land ruined and laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?
Hos 4:6 – My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
Obad 1:8 – Will I not on that day, declares the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
Have wisdom made into folly
Job 5:12 – He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
Isa 29:14 – therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden."
Jer 49:7 – Concerning Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
Obad 1:8 – Will I not on that day, declares the LORD, destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of Mount Esau?
1 Cor 1:19 – For it is written, "I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart."
1 Cor 1:20 – Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?
1 Cor 3:19 – For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"
Meet disasters
Isa 5:13 – Therefore my people go into exile for lack of knowledge; their honored men go hungry, and their multitude is parched with thirst.
Isa 5:21 – Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and shrewd in their own sight!
Isa 27:11 – When its boughs are dry, they are broken; women come and make a fire of them. For this is a people without discernment; therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them; he who formed them will show them no favor.
Ezek 28:7 – therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
Ezek 28:17 – Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.
Hos 4:6 – My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
Lk 11:52 – Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering."
Sin and come to ruin
Hos 4:14 – I will not punish your daughters when they play the whore, nor your brides when they commit adultery; for the men themselves go aside with prostitutes and sacrifice with cult prostitutes, and a people without understanding shall come to ruin.
Rom 1:28 – And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
1 Cor 8:7 – However, not all possess this knowledge. But some, through former association with idols, eat food as really offered to an idol, and their conscience, being weak, is defiled.
1 Cor 8:10 – For if anyone sees you who have knowledge eating in an idol's temple, will he not be encouraged, if his conscience is weak, to eat food offered to idols?
1 Cor 8:11 – And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.
Tit 1:15 – To the pure, all things are pure, but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their minds and their consciences are defiled.
2 Pet 2:20 – For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
Do not know God
Isa 1:3 – The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master's crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand."
Hos 4:1 – Hear the word of the LORD, O children of Israel, for the LORD has a controversy with the inhabitants of the land. There is no faithfulness or steadfast love, and no knowledge of God in the land;
Hos 13:2 – And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, "Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!"
Rom 1:28 – And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
Make and worship idols
Isa 44:19 – No one considers, nor is there knowledge or discernment to say, "Half of it I burned in the fire; I also baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and have eaten. And shall I make the rest of it an abomination? Shall I fall down before a block of wood?"
Jer 10:14 – Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.
Jer 51:17 – Every man is stupid and without knowledge; every goldsmith is put to shame by his idols, for his images are false, and there is no breath in them.
Hos 13:2 – And now they sin more and more, and make for themselves metal images, idols skillfully made of their silver, all of them the work of craftsmen. It is said of them, "Those who offer human sacrifice kiss calves!"
Be proud
Ezek 28:17 – Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.
1 Cor 8:1 – Now concerning food offered to idols: we know that "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge" puffs up, but love builds up.
Teach the wrong message
Dan 11:33 – And the wise among the people shall make many understand, though for some days they shall stumble by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder.
Lk 11:52 – Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering."
Have zeal not according to knowledge
Rom 10:2 – I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge.
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Job 28:28 – And he said to man, 'Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.'"
Verbs with "Wisdom" (חָכְמָה) as Subject
Find, מָצָא
Job 28:12 – "But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?
Prov 10:13 – On the lips of him who has understanding, wisdom is found, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks sense.
Come, בֹּוא
Job 28:20 – "From where, then, does wisdom come? And where is the place of understanding?
Prov 2:10 – for wisdom will come into your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul;
Be much, הַרְבָּה
1 Kgs 4:30 – so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Die, מוּת
Job 12:2 – "No doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.
Swallow, בָּלַע
Ps 107:27 – they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits' end.
Call, קָרָא
Prov 8:1 – Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice?
Settle, נוּחַ
Prov 14:33 – Wisdom rests in the heart of a man of understanding, but it makes itself known even in the midst of fools.
Stand, עָמַד
Eccl 2:9 – So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.
Be alive, חָיָה
Eccl 7:12 – For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Be strong, עָזַז
Eccl 7:19 – Wisdom gives strength to the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.
Be light, אֹור
Eccl 8:1 – Who is like the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
Perish, אָבַד
Isa 29:14 – therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden."
Overhanging, סָרוּחַ
Jer 49:7 – Concerning Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
Verbs with "Wisdom" (חָכְמָה) as Object
Give, נָתַן
Ex 31:6 – And behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. And I have given to all able men ability, that they may make all that I have commanded you:
Ex 36:1 – "Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the LORD has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the LORD has commanded."
Ex 36:2 – And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whose mind the LORD had put skill, everyone whose heart stirred him up to come to do the work.
1 Kgs 4:29 – And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding beyond measure, and breadth of mind like the sand on the seashore,
1 Kgs 5:12 – And the LORD gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him. And there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them made a treaty.
2 Chr 1:10 – Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?"
2 Chr 1:12 – wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like."
Prov 2:6 – For the LORD gives wisdom; from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
Prov 29:15 – The rod and reproof give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.
Eccl 2:26 – For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Know, דָּעָה
Job 32:7 – I said, 'Let days speak, and many years teach wisdom.'
Ps 51:6 – Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Prov 1:2 – To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight,
Prov 24:14 – Know that wisdom is such to your soul; if you find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.
Eccl 1:17 – And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.
Eccl 8:16 – When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one's eyes see sleep,
Hear, שָׁמַע
1 Kgs 4:34 – And people of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
1 Kgs 10:8 – Happy are your men! Happy are your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
1 Kgs 10:24 – And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
2 Chr 9:7 – Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
2 Chr 9:23 – And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
See, רָאָה
1 Kgs 10:4 – And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
2 Chr 9:3 – And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
Eccl 1:16 – I said in my heart, "I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."
Eccl 2:12 – So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.
Eccl 9:13 – I have also seen this example of wisdom under the sun, and it seemed great to me.
Buy, קָנָה
Prov 4:5 – Get wisdom; get insight; do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
Prov 4:7 – The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.
Prov 16:16 – How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Prov 17:16 – Why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom when he has no sense?
Be full, מָלֵא
Ex 35:35 – He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver–by any sort of workman or skilled designer.
1 Kgs 7:14 – He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.
Add, יָסַף
1 Kgs 10:7 – but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report that I heard.
Eccl 1:16 – I said in my heart, "I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."
Find, מָצָא
Job 32:13 – Beware lest you say, 'We have found wisdom; God may vanquish him, not a man.'
Prov 3:13 – Blessed is the one who finds wisdom, and the one who gets understanding,
Seek, בָּקַשׁ
Prov 14:6 – A scoffer seeks wisdom in vain, but knowledge is easy for a man of understanding.
Eccl 7:25 – I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.
Ask, שָׁאַל
2 Chr 1:11 – God answered Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king,
Clip, גָּרַע
Job 15:8 – Have you listened in the council of God? And do you limit wisdom to yourself?
Put, שִׁית
Job 38:36 – Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind?
Mutter, הָגָה
Ps 37:30 – The mouth of the righteous utters wisdom, and his tongue speaks justice.
Despise, בּוּז
Prov 1:7 – The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Thrive, נוּב
Prov 10:31 – The mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom, but the perverse tongue will be cut off.
Sell, מָכַר
Prov 23:23 – Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
Love, אָהַב
Prov 29:3 – He who loves wisdom makes his father glad, but a companion of prostitutes squanders his wealth.
Learn, לָמַד
Prov 30:3 – I have not learned wisdom, nor have I knowledge of the Holy One.
Destroy, שָׁחַת
Ezek 28:17 – Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.
Verbs with "Wisdom" (חָכְמָה) as Indirect Object
Hear, שָׁמַע
1 Kgs 10:6 – And she said to the king, "The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,
2 Chr 9:5 – And she said to the king, "The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,
Give attention, קָשַׁב
Prov 2:2 – making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
Prov 5:1 – My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,
Be full, מָלֵא
Ex 31:3 – and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship,
Found, יָסַד
Prov 3:19 – The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;
Say, אָמַר
Prov 7:4 – Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend,
Build, בָּנָה
Prov 24:3 – By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;
Walk, הָלַךְ
Prov 28:26 – Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
Be boastful, הָלַל
Jer 9:23 – Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
Be prudent, שָׂכַל
Dan 1:4 – youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.
Adjectives Modifying "Wisdom" (חָכְמָה)
[NEG], אַיִן
Prov 21:30 – No wisdom, no understanding, no counsel can avail against the LORD.
Eccl 9:10 – Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Not, הֲלֹא
Prov 8:1 – Does not wisdom call? Does not understanding raise her voice?
Predicate Complements of "Wisdom" (חָכְמָה)
In, among, בְּ
1 Kgs 3:28 – And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
Job 12:12 – Wisdom is with the aged, and understanding in length of days.
Eccl 7:12 – For the protection of wisdom is like the protection of money, and the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom preserves the life of him who has it.
Eccl 9:10 – Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Pleasant, טוֹב
Prov 8:11 – for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.
Eccl 7:11 – Wisdom is good with an inheritance, an advantage to those who see the sun.
Eccl 9:16 – But I say that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.
Eccl 9:18 – Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner destroys much good.
Together with, אֵת
Prov 11:2 – When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with the humble is wisdom.
Prov 13:10 – By insolence comes nothing but strife, but with those who take advice is wisdom.
Prov 17:24 – The discerning sets his face toward wisdom, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.
With, עִם
Job 12:13 – "With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
Despise, בָּזָה
Eccl 9:16 – But I say that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.
Profit, יִתְרֹון
Eccl 10:10 – If the iron is blunt, and one does not sharpen the edge, he must use more strength, but wisdom helps one to succeed.
Store, חֹסֶן
Isa 33:6 – and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is Zion's treasure.
To, for, לְ
Jer 8:9 – The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?
Prepositions with "Wisdom" (חָכְמָה)
In, among, בְּ
Ex 31:3 – and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship,
Ex 35:26 – All the women whose hearts stirred them to use their skill spun the goats' hair.
Ex 35:31 – and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship,
2 Sam 20:22 – Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
1 Chr 28:21 – And behold the divisions of the priests and the Levites for all the service of the house of God; and with you in all the work will be every willing man who has skill for any kind of service; also the officers and all the people will be wholly at your command."
Job 4:21 – Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them, do they not die, and that without wisdom?'
Job 38:37 – Who can number the clouds by wisdom? Or who can tilt the waterskins of the heavens,
Ps 104:24 – O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.
Prov 3:19 – The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;
Prov 24:3 – By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established;
Prov 28:26 – Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.
Prov 31:26 – She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.
Eccl 1:13 – And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.
Eccl 2:3 – I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine–my heart still guiding me with wisdom–and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life.
Eccl 2:21 – because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Eccl 7:23 – All this I have tested by wisdom. I said, "I will be wise," but it was far from me.
Eccl 9:15 – But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
Isa 10:13 – For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I remove the boundaries of peoples, and plunder their treasures; like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
Jer 9:23 – Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
Jer 10:12 – It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
Jer 51:15 – "It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
Ezek 28:4 – by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
Dan 1:4 – youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.
To, for, לְ
1 Kgs 10:23 – Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
Job 13:5 – Oh that you would keep silent, and it would be your wisdom!
Prov 2:2 – making your ear attentive to wisdom and inclining your heart to understanding;
Prov 5:1 – My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,
Prov 7:4 – Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call insight your intimate friend,
Eccl 2:13 – Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness.
Out of, מִן
1 Kgs 4:30 – so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Eccl 7:10 – Say not, "Why were the former days better than these?" For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.
Eccl 10:1 – Dead flies make the perfumer's ointment give off a stench; so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
Like, as, כְּ
2 Sam 14:20 – In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth."
1 Kgs 2:6 – Act therefore according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
Above, עַל
1 Kgs 10:6 – And she said to the king, "The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,
2 Chr 9:5 – And she said to the king, "The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,
… of "Wisdom" (חָכְמָה)
Whole, כֹּל
1 Kgs 4:30 – so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1 Kgs 10:4 – And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
Ps 107:27 – they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits' end.
Dan 1:4 – youths without blemish, of good appearance and skillful in all wisdom, endowed with knowledge, understanding learning, and competent to stand in the king's palace, and to teach them the literature and language of the Chaldeans.
Dan 1:17 – As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
Spirit, wind, רוּחַ
Ex 28:3 – You shall speak to all the skillful, whom I have filled with a spirit of skill, that they make Aaron's garments to consecrate him for my priesthood.
Deut 34:9 – And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him. So the people of Israel obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Isa 11:2 – And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him, the Spirit of wisdom and understanding, the Spirit of counsel and might, the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.
Beginning, רֵאשִׁית
Ps 111:10 – The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever!
Prov 4:7 – The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom, and whatever you get, get insight.
Multitude, רֹב
Eccl 1:18 – For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
Ezek 28:5 – by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth–
Great number, מַרְבִּית
2 Chr 9:6 – but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not told me; you surpass the report that I heard.
Bag, מֶשֶׁךְ
Job 28:18 – No mention shall be made of coral or of crystal; the price of wisdom is above pearls.
Heart, לֵבָב
Ps 90:12 – So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.
Way, דֶּרֶךְ
Prov 4:11 – I have taught you the way of wisdom; I have led you in the paths of uprightness.
Beginning, תְּחִלָּה
Prov 9:10 – The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.
Chastening, מוּסָר
Prov 15:33 – The fear of the LORD is instruction in wisdom, and humility comes before honor.
Well, מָקֹור
Prov 18:4 – The words of a man's mouth are deep waters; the fountain of wisdom is a bubbling brook.
Beauty, יֳפִי
Ezek 28:7 – therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
Word, דָּבָר
Dan 1:20 – And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.
"Wisdom" (חָכְמָה) of …
You
1 Kgs 2:6 – Act therefore according to your wisdom, but do not let his gray head go down to Sheol in peace.
1 Kgs 10:6 – And she said to the king, "The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,
1 Kgs 10:8 – Happy are your men! Happy are your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
2 Chr 9:5 – And she said to the king, "The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,
2 Chr 9:6 – but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, half the greatness of your wisdom was not told me; you surpass the report that I heard.
2 Chr 9:7 – Happy are your wives! Happy are these your servants, who continually stand before you and hear your wisdom!
Ezek 28:4 – by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
Ezek 28:5 – by your great wisdom in your trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart has become proud in your wealth–
Ezek 28:7 – therefore, behold, I will bring foreigners upon you, the most ruthless of the nations; and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of your wisdom and defile your splendor.
Ezek 28:17 – Your heart was proud because of your beauty; you corrupted your wisdom for the sake of your splendor. I cast you to the ground; I exposed you before kings, to feast their eyes on you.
Him
1 Kgs 4:34 – And people of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
1 Kgs 10:24 – And the whole earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
1 Kgs 11:41 – Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the Book of the Acts of Solomon?
2 Chr 9:23 – And all the kings of the earth sought the presence of Solomon to hear his wisdom, which God had put into his mind.
Eccl 9:15 – But there was found in it a poor, wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
Jer 9:23 – Thus says the LORD: "Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, let not the mighty man boast in his might, let not the rich man boast in his riches,
Jer 10:12 – It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
Jer 51:15 – "It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
Solomon, שְׁלֹמֹה
1 Kgs 4:30 – so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
1 Kgs 4:34 – And people of all nations came to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and from all the kings of the earth, who had heard of his wisdom.
1 Kgs 10:4 – And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
2 Chr 9:3 – And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
I
Prov 5:1 – My son, be attentive to my wisdom; incline your ear to my understanding,
Eccl 2:9 – So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.
Isa 10:13 – For he says: "By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom, for I have understanding; I remove the boundaries of peoples, and plunder their treasures; like a bull I bring down those who sit on thrones.
Them
Ps 107:27 – they reeled and staggered like drunken men and were at their wits' end.
Jer 49:7 – Concerning Edom. Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Is wisdom no more in Teman? Has counsel perished from the prudent? Has their wisdom vanished?
Understanding, תְּבוּנָה
Ex 35:31 – and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship,
Heart, לֵב
Ex 35:35 – He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver–by any sort of workman or skilled designer.
You
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Messenger, מַלְאָךְ
2 Sam 14:20 – In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth."
Her
2 Sam 20:22 – Then the woman went to all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri and threw it out to Joab. So he blew the trumpet, and they dispersed from the city, every man to his home. And Joab returned to Jerusalem to the king.
God/god(s), אֱלֹהִים
1 Kgs 3:28 – And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.
Whole, כֹּל
1 Kgs 4:30 – so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Egypt, מִצְרַיִם
1 Kgs 4:30 – so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Shrewd, עָרוּם
Prov 14:8 – The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deceiving.
Human, mankind, אָדָם
Eccl 8:1 – Who is like the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man's wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.
Poor, מִסְכֵּן
Eccl 9:16 – But I say that wisdom is better than might, though the poor man's wisdom is despised and his words are not heard.
Wise, חָכָם
Isa 29:14 – therefore, behold, I will again do wonderful things with this people, with wonder upon wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the discernment of their discerning men shall be hidden."
You
Isa 47:10 – You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me."
What, לָמָּה
Jer 8:9 – The wise men shall be put to shame; they shall be dismayed and taken; behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?
Understanding, בִּינָה
Dan 1:20 – And in every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his kingdom.
… and "Wisdom" (חָכְמָה)
Word, דָּבָר
1 Kgs 10:6 – And she said to the king, "The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,
2 Chr 9:5 – And she said to the king, "The report was true that I heard in my own land of your words and of your wisdom,
Riches, עֹשֶׁר
1 Kgs 10:23 – Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
2 Chr 9:22 – Thus King Solomon excelled all the kings of the earth in riches and in wisdom.
Son, בֵּן
1 Kgs 4:30 – so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Wisdom, חָכְמָה
1 Kgs 4:30 – so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Knowledge, דַּעַת
Eccl 9:10 – Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
Missive, סֵפֶר
Dan 1:17 – As for these four youths, God gave them learning and skill in all literature and wisdom, and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
"Wisdom" (חָכְמָה) and …
Knowledge, דַּעַת
Eccl 1:16 – I said in my heart, "I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."
Eccl 2:21 – because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Eccl 2:26 – For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Isa 33:6 – and he will be the stability of your times, abundance of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge; the fear of the LORD is Zion's treasure.
Isa 47:10 – You felt secure in your wickedness, you said, "No one sees me"; your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, "I am, and there is no one besides me."
Understanding, תְּבוּנָה
Ex 31:3 – and I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with ability and intelligence, with knowledge and all craftsmanship,
Ex 36:1 – "Bezalel and Oholiab and every craftsman in whom the LORD has put skill and intelligence to know how to do any work in the construction of the sanctuary shall work in accordance with all that the LORD has commanded."
1 Kgs 7:14 – He was the son of a widow of the tribe of Naphtali, and his father was a man of Tyre, a worker in bronze. And he was full of wisdom, understanding, and skill for making any work in bronze. He came to King Solomon and did all his work.
Ezek 28:4 – by your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;
Knowledge, מַדָּע
2 Chr 1:10 – Give me now wisdom and knowledge to go out and come in before this people, for who can govern this people of yours, which is so great?"
2 Chr 1:11 – God answered Solomon, "Because this was in your heart, and you have not asked possessions, wealth, honor, or the life of those who hate you, and have not even asked long life, but have asked wisdom and knowledge for yourself that you may govern my people over whom I have made you king,
2 Chr 1:12 – wisdom and knowledge are granted to you. I will also give you riches, possessions, and honor, such as none of the kings had who were before you, and none after you shall have the like."
Chastening, מוּסָר
Prov 1:2 – To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight,
Prov 1:7 – The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Prov 23:23 – Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
Whole, כֹּל
Ex 35:31 – and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship,
1 Kgs 4:30 – so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Understanding, בִּינָה
Deut 4:6 – Keep them and do them, for that will be your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, who, when they hear all these statutes, will say, 'Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.'
Prov 23:23 – Buy truth, and do not sell it; buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding.
Madness, הֹולֵלֹות
Eccl 1:17 – And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.
Eccl 2:12 – So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.
Folly, סִכְלוּת
Eccl 1:17 – And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.
Eccl 2:12 – So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly. For what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what has already been done.
Work, מְלָאכָה
Ex 35:31 – and he has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, with intelligence, with knowledge, and with all craftsmanship,
Wisdom, חָכְמָה
1 Kgs 4:30 – so that Solomon's wisdom surpassed the wisdom of all the people of the east and all the wisdom of Egypt.
Pleasant, טוֹב
1 Kgs 10:7 – but I did not believe the reports until I came and my own eyes had seen it. And behold, the half was not told me. Your wisdom and prosperity surpass the report that I heard.
House, בַּיִת
2 Chr 9:3 – And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, the house that he had built,
Strength, גְּבוּרָה
Job 12:13 – "With God are wisdom and might; he has counsel and understanding.
Know, דָּעָה
Eccl 1:17 – And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.
Advantage, כִּשְׁרֹון
Eccl 2:21 – because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
Joy, שִׂמְחָה
Eccl 2:26 – For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Account, חֶשְׁבֹּון
Eccl 7:25 – I turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.
"Wisdom" (חָכְמָה) as Adjunct of …
Secret, תַּעֲלֻמָה
Job 11:6 – and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
Job 11:6 – and that he would tell you the secrets of wisdom! For he is manifold in understanding. Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.
Job 42:3 – 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Mic 4:12 – But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.
1 Cor 2:1 – And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom.
1 Cor 2:7 – But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
Col 1:9 – And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
Col 2:2 – that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,
Omniscient (See <topic id=“533” startswith=“” nth=“”>God’s omniscience</topic>）
1 Chr 28:9 – "And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Job 10:7 – although you know that I am not guilty, and there is none to deliver out of your hand?
Job 11:11 – For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?
Ps 19:12 – Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.
Ps 33:15 – he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.
Ps 139:2 – You know when I sit down and when I rise up; you discern my thoughts from afar.
Isa 48:4 – Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,
Transcendent
Transcends the power of men
1 Sam 2:3 – Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Job 12:16 – With him are strength and sound wisdom; the deceived and the deceiver are his.
Job 26:14 – Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways, and how small a whisper do we hear of him! But the thunder of his power who can understand?"
Job 38:2 – "Who is this that darkens counsel by words without knowledge?
Job 38:18 – Have you comprehended the expanse of the earth? Declare, if you know all this.
Job 38:20 – that you may take it to its territory and that you may discern the paths to its home?
Job 42:3 – 'Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?' Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.
Ps 139:6 – Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
Isa 40:14 – Whom did he consult, and who made him understand? Who taught him the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed him the way of understanding?
Rom 11:34 – "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?"
1 Cor 2:16 – "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
Rom 11:34 – "For who has known the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor?"
1 Cor 1:21 – For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
1 Cor 3:19 – For the wisdom of this world is folly with God. For it is written, "He catches the wise in their craftiness,"
Transcends measurement
Ps 139:6 – Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
Ps 147:5 – Great is our Lord, and abundant in power; his understanding is beyond measure.
Isa 28:29 – This also comes from the LORD of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.
Isa 40:28 – Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Rom 11:33 – Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
Transcends limitation of time
1 Cor 2:7 – But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
Rev 7:12 – saying, "Amen! Blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our God forever and ever! Amen."
Holy
Rom 12:2 – Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.
The works of God’s wisdom
Creates
Ps 104:24 – O LORD, how manifold are your works! In wisdom have you made them all; the earth is full of your creatures.
Ps 136:5 – to him who by understanding made the heavens, for his steadfast love endures forever;
Prov 3:19 – The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens;
Prov 3:20 – by his knowledge the deeps broke open, and the clouds drop down the dew.
Isa 29:16 – You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, "He did not make me"; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, "He has no understanding"?
Isa 40:28 – Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Jer 10:12 – It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
Jer 51:15 – "It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.
Searches
1 Chr 28:9 – "And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve him with a whole heart and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek him, he will be found by you, but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.
Job 11:11 – For he knows worthless men; when he sees iniquity, will he not consider it?
Ps 19:12 – Who can discern his errors? Declare me innocent from hidden faults.
Ps 33:15 – he who fashions the hearts of them all and observes all their deeds.
Prov 22:12 – The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the traitor.
Prov 24:12 – If you say, "Behold, we did not know this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
Judges
1 Sam 2:3 – Talk no more so very proudly, let not arrogance come from your mouth; for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.
Job 21:22 – Will any teach God knowledge, seeing that he judges those who are on high?
Ps 94:10 – He who disciplines the nations, does he not rebuke? He who teaches man knowledge–
Prov 24:12 – If you say, "Behold, we did not know this," does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?
Saves
Mic 4:12 – But they do not know the thoughts of the LORD; they do not understand his plan, that he has gathered them as sheaves to the threshing floor.
Lk 11:49 – Therefore also the Wisdom of God said, 'I will send them prophets and apostles, some of whom they will kill and persecute,'
1 Cor 1:21 – For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe.
Gives
1 Cor 2:7 – But we impart a secret and hidden wisdom of God, which God decreed before the ages for our glory.
Eph 1:8 – which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight
Embodiment of God’s wisdom
Christ
1 Cor 1:24 – but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
1 Cor 1:30 – He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
Col 2:2 – that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,
Col 2:3 – in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Rev 5:12 – saying with a loud voice, "Worthy is the Lamb who was slain, to receive power and wealth and wisdom and might and honor and glory and blessing!"
Medium for God’s wisdom
Church
Eph 3:10 – so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly place.．
In John, the phrase “I am” in Greek is given prominence by the presence of the emphatic pronoun <i>egō</i>, ἐγώ (“I”) in addition to verb <i>eimi</i>, εἰμί (“I am”)
The phrase in reference to Jesus
Metaphorical use (In combination with a metaphor)
The bread of life (Jn 6:35, 48); the bread that came down from heaven (Jn 6:41); the living bread (Jn 6:51);
The light of the world (Jn 8:12; cf. Jn 9:5)
The door (Jn 10:7, 9)
The good shepherd (Jn 10:11, 14)
The resurrection and the life (Jn 11:25)
The way, the truth, and the life (Jn 14:6)
The (true) vine (Jn 15:1, 5)
Absolute use [footnote text=“"Absolute use" refers to the independent use of the expression "I am" without the addition of any metaphor.”]
Self-identification and expression of authority (Jn 6:20; 18:5, 6, 8)
Self-revelation of divinity and existence (Jn 8:24, 28, 58; 13:19)
See <topic id=“749” startswith=“The LORD’s self-revelation” nth=”1”>The LORD’s self-revelation in the Old Testament</topic>
Combined with participle (Jn 4:26; 8:18) or preposition (Jn 8:23)
“Where I am” (Jn 7:34, 36; 12:26; 14:3; 17:24)
“I am” used as self-identification by others
Jn 9:9 – Some said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he is like him." He kept saying, "I am the man."
Jn 18:35 – Pilate answered, "Am I a Jew? Your own nation and the chief priests have delivered you over to me. What have you done?"
John’s confession: “I am not”
Jn 1:20 – He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, "I am not the Christ."
Jn 3:28 – You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.'
The LORD’s self-revelation in the Old Testament
In Ex 3:14, the LORD declared His being with the expression “I AM WHO I AM.” The expression in Greek, Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ὤν, contains the <i>egō eimi,</i> ἐγὼ εἰμί (“I am”) self-identification Jesus uses repeatedly.
The LORD often identified Himself with “I am…” [footnote text=“The expression "I am" can be seen in the LXX version of the following verses”]
“I am he who blots out your transgressions (Isa 43:25)
“I am God” (Isa 45:22; 46:9; Hos 11:9)
“I am the first and I am forever” (Isa 48:12)
“I am he who comforts you” (Isa 51:12)
“I am he who speaks” (Isa 52:6)
“I am a great king” (Mal 1:14)
The absolute form of <i>egō eimi,</i> ἐγὼ εἰμί (“I am”) is found in the Greek version of the Old Testament Scriptures. It is the LORD’s declaration of His eternal existence, uniqueness, and salvation (Deut 32:39; Isa 43:10–11, 25; 45:18, 19; 46:4; 47:8, 10; 51:12).
Defiant use of the expression
Zeph 2:15 – This is the exultant city that lived securely, that said in her heart, "I am, and there is no one else." What a desolation she has become, a lair for wild beasts! Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
Jn 2:11 – This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
Jn 4:54 – This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.
Events named “signs”
Changing water to wine (Jn 2:1–12)
Raising the temple in three days (Jn 2:18–19)
Healing the official’s son (Jn 4:46–54)
Feeding the multitude (Jn 6:1–14)
Healing of the sick (Jn 6:2)
Healing the man born blind (implied in Jn 9:16)
Raising of Lazarus from the dead (Jn 12:17–18)
Appearing to the disciples (implied in Jn 20:30)
Attributed to what Jesus did
Jn 2:11 – This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
Jn 2:23 – Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.
Jn 4:54 – This was now the second sign that Jesus did when he had come from Judea to Galilee.
Jn 6:2 – And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.
Jn 6:14 – When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”
Jn 6:30 – So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?
Jn 7:31 – Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”
Jn 9:16 – Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them.
Jn 11:47 – So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.
Jn 12:18 – The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign.
Jn 12:37 – Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,
Jn 20:30 – Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;
Seeing signs
Jn 4:48 – So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”
Jn 6:2 – And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.
Jn 6:14 – When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”
Jn 6:26 – Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.
Signs and faith
Faith as a result of signs
Jn 4:48 – So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”
Jn 2:23 – Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.
Jn 20:30 – Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;
Jn 20:31 – but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Signs and glory and faith
Jn 2:11 – This, the first of his signs, Jesus did at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory. And his disciples believed in him.
Jn 11:4 – But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
Jn 11:40 – Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”
Failure to believe in Jesus despite seeing signs
Jn 6:26 – Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, you are seeking me, not because you saw signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves.
Jn 12:37 – Though he had done so many signs before them, they still did not believe in him,
Faith should not depend on signs
Jn 4:48 – So Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.”
Actions as result of seeing Jesus’ signs
Jn 2:23 – Now when he was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many believed in his name when they saw the signs that he was doing.
Jn 6:2 – And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick.
Jn 6:14 – When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, “This is indeed the Prophet who is to come into the world!”
Jn 12:18 – The reason why the crowd went to meet him was that they heard he had done this sign.
Purpose of recording Jesus’ signs
Jn 20:30 – Now Jesus did many other signs in the presence of the disciples, which are not written in this book;
Jn 20:31 – but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Asking for a sign
Jn 2:18 – So the Jews said to him, “What sign do you show us for doing these things?”
Jn 6:30 – So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?
Parallel with “works”
(Jn 7:3 with Jn 7:31; Jn 9:3-4 with Jn 9:16; Jn 10:25, 32, 37-38 With Jn 10:41; Jn 12:37 with Jn 15:24)
Jn 6:30 – So they said to him, “Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform?
Reflections on signs
Jn 3:2 – This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.”
Jn 7:31 – Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, “When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”
Jn 9:16 – Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them.
Jn 11:47 – So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the Council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.
Sign and John the Baptist
Jn 10:41 – And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but everything that John said about this man was true.”
Mt 24:38 – For as in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark
Lk 17:27 – They were eating and drinking and marrying and being given in marriage, until the day when Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all.
This age
Lk 20:34 – And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage
After resurrection
Mt 22:30 – For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Mk 12:25 – For when they rise from the dead, they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels in heaven.
Lk 20:35 – but those who are considered worthy to attain to that age and to the resurrection from the dead neither marry nor are given in marriage
Purpose for marriage
Companionship
Gen 2:18 – Then the LORD God said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a helper fit for him.”
Prov 2:16 – So you will be delivered from the forbidden woman, from the adulteress with her smooth words,
Prov 2:17 – who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the covenant of her God;
Mal 2:14 – But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
See also Eccl 4:9-11
To enjoy life together
Prov 5:18 – Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth
Eccl 9:9 – Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.
Godly offspring
Mal 2:15 – Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
To be heirs together of the grace of life
1 Pet 3:7 – Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Descriptions of marriage
Of actions relating to marriage
God
Brought woman to man
Gen 2:22 – And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
Joined together
Mt 19:6 – So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Mk 10:9 – What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Make them one
Mal 2:15 – Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. [footnote text=“It is not clear in Hebrew what "make them one" means.”]
Man/husband
Leave his father and mother (Gen 2:24; Mt 19:5; Mk 10:7; Eph 5:31)
Hold fast to his wife (Gen 2:24; Mt 19:5; Mk 10:7; Eph 5:31)
Two shall become one flesh
Gen 2:24 – Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Mal 2:15 – Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth. [footnote text=“It is not clear in Hebrew what "make them one" means.”]
Mt 19:5 – and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh’?
Mt 19:6 – So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Mk 10:8 – and they shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.
1 Cor 6:16 – Or do you not know that he who is joined to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, “The two will become one flesh.”
Eph 5:31 – “Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh.”
Not to be forbidden
Lk 20:34 – And Jesus said to them, “The sons of this age marry and are given in marriage
1 Cor 7:28 – But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.
1 Cor 7:36 – If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry–it is no sin.
1 Cor 9:5 – Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
1 Tim 4:3 – who forbid marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.
Between a man and woman
Gen 2:22 – And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
Gen 2:24 – Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Isa 62:5 – For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
1 Cor 7:2 – But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
A covenant
Jer 31:32 – not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD.
Ezek 16:8 – “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine.
Mal 2:14 – But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
A good thing
Prov 18:22 – He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
Rest
Ruth 3:1 – Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
Characterization of marriage
Love
Gen 24:67 – Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Gen 29:18 – Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Gen 29:20 – So Jacob served seven years for Rachel, and they seemed to him but a few days because of the love he had for her.
Gen 29:30 – So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.
1 Sam 1:4 – On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters.
1 Sam 1:5 – But to Hannah he gave a double portion, because he loved her, though the LORD had closed her womb.
1 Sam 18:20 – Now Saul’s daughter Michal loved David. And they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.
1 Sam 18:28 – But when Saul saw and knew that the LORD was with David, and that Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him,
1 Kgs 11:2 – from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.
2 Chr 11:21 – Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).
Prov 5:18 – Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
Prov 5:19 – a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
Eccl 9:9 – Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.
Song of Songs 1-8
Song 4:10 – How beautiful is your love, my sister, my bride! How much better is your love than wine, and the fragrance of your oils than any spice!
Jer 2:2 – “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD, “I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
Ezek 16:8 – “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine.
Lack of love
Gen 29:31 – When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Deut 21:15 – “If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,
Deut 21:16 – then on the day when he assigns his possessions as an inheritance to his sons, he may not treat the son of the loved as the firstborn in preference to the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn,
Faithful
Job 31:1 – “I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?
Hos 2:20 – I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD.
Hos 3:3 – And I said to her, “You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.”
Faithless
Ex 21:8 – If she does not please her master, who has designated her for himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has broken faith with her.
Num 5:12 – “Speak to the people of Israel, If any man’s wife goes astray and breaks faith with him,
Num 5:13 – if a man lies with her sexually, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she is undetected though she has defiled herself, and there is no witness against her, since she was not taken in the act,
Judg 19:2 – And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.
Jer 3:8 – She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.
Jer 3:20 – Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband, so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel, declares the LORD.'”
Hos 5:7 – They have dealt faithlessly with the LORD; for they have borne alien children. Now the new moon shall devour them with their fields.
Mal 2:11 – Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the LORD, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
Mal 2:14 – But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
Mal 2:15 – Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth
Mal 2:16 – “For the man who hates and divorces, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Cause of rejoicing
Deut 24:5 – “When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.
Ps 19:5 – which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.
Prov 5:18 – Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth
Eccl 9:9 – Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life that he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun.
Isa 62:4 – You shall no more be termed Forsaken, and your land shall no more be termed Desolate, but you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the LORD delights in you, and your land shall be married.
Isa 62:5 – For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
Jer 7:34 – And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.
Jer 16:9 – For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will silence in this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
Jer 25:10 – Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
Jer 33:11 – the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD: “‘Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!’ For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the LORD.
Jn 3:29 – The one who has the bride is the bridegroom. The friend of the bridegroom, who stands and hears him, rejoices greatly at the bridegroom’s voice. Therefore this joy of mine is now complete.
Rev 18:23 – and the light of a lamp will shine in you no more, and the voice of bridegroom and bride will be heard in you no more, for your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and all nations were deceived by your sorcery.
Earth-trembling
Prov 30:21 – Under three things the earth trembles; under four it cannot bear up:
Prov 30:23 – an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress.
Marriage and God
Instituted by God
Gen 2:22 – And the rib that the LORD God had taken from the man he made into a woman and brought her to the man.
Gen 2:24 – Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.
Mt 19:4 – He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,
Mt 19:5 – and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh’?
Mt 19:6 – So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Mk 10:6 – But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
Mk 10:7 – ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,
Mk 10:8 – and they shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.
Mk 10:9 – What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
God’s involvement
In punishing marital fidelity
Gen 12:17 – But the LORD afflicted Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife.
Gen 12:18 – So Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife?
Gen 12:19 – Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.”
Gen 12:20 – And Pharaoh gave men orders concerning him, and they sent him away with his wife and all that he had.
Gen 20:3 – But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.”
Gen 20:6 – Then God said to him in the dream, “Yes, I know that you have done this in the integrity of your heart, and it was I who kept you from sinning against me. Therefore I did not let you touch her.
Gen 20:7 – Now then, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, so that he will pray for you, and you shall live. But if you do not return her, know that you shall surely die, you, and all who are yours.”
2 Sam 11:27 – And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
2 Sam 12:9 – Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
2 Sam 12:10 – Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’
Ezek 22:1 – And the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
Ezek 22:2 – “And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.
Ezek 22:11 – One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
Ezek 22:15 – I will scatter you among the nations and disperse you through the countries, and I will consume your uncleanness out of you.
Heb 13:4 – Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
In choice of spouse
Gen 24:14 – Let the young woman to whom I shall say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who shall say, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels’–let her be the one whom you have appointed for your servant Isaac. By this I shall know that you have shown steadfast love to my master.”
Gen 24:40 – But he said to me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father’s house.
Gen 24:44 – and who will say to me, “Drink, and I will draw for your camels also,” let her be the woman whom the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.’
Gen 24:50 – Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, “The thing has come from the LORD; we cannot speak to you bad or good.
Gen 24:51 – Behold, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the LORD has spoken.”
Mt 1:19 – And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.
Mt 1:20 – But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.
Mt 1:24 – When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife
Within marriage
Gen 29:31 – When the LORD saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb, but Rachel was barren.
Gen 29:32 – And Leah conceived and bore a son, and she called his name Reuben, for she said, “Because the LORD has looked upon my affliction; for now my husband will love me.”
Gen 38:10 – And what he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and he put him to death also.
Prohibitions
Not to intermarry with Gentile nations (see also <topic id=”710” startswith=”As a result of marrying outside of faith” nth=”1”>As a result of marrying outside of faith</topic>)
Deut 7:1 – “When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,
Deut 7:2 – and when the LORD your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must devote them to complete destruction. You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.
Deut 7:3 – You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,
Deut 7:4 – for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
1 Kgs 11:2 – from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.
Ezra 9:1 – After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra 9:2 – For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”
Ezra 9:10 – “And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,
Ezra 9:11 – which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.
Ezra 9:12 – Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
Ezra 9:14 – shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
Consequences of disobeying God’s commands
As a result of marrying outside of faith
Heart turned away from God
Deut 7:1 – “When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to take possession of it, and clears away many nations before you, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves,
Deut 7:3 – You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,
Deut 7:4 – for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
Judg 3:6 – And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.
Judg 3:7 – And the people of Israel did what was evil in the sight of the LORD. They forgot the LORD their God and served the Baals and the Asheroth.
1 Kgs 11:2 – from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.
1 Kgs 11:3 – He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.
1 Kgs 11:4 – For when Solomon was old his wives turned away his heart after other gods, and his heart was not wholly true to the LORD his God, as was the heart of David his father.
1 Kgs 11:5 – For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.
1 Kgs 11:6 – So Solomon did what was evil in the sight of the LORD and did not wholly follow the LORD, as David his father had done.
1 Kgs 11:7 – Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, and for Molech the abomination of the Ammonites, on the mountain east of Jerusalem.
1 Kgs 11:8 – And so he did for all his foreign wives, who made offerings and sacrificed to their gods.
1 Kgs 11:9 – And the LORD was angry with Solomon, because his heart had turned away from the LORD, the God of Israel, who had appeared to him twice
Break faith with God
Ezra 9:1 – After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra 9:2 – For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”
Ezra 9:4 – Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the faithlessness of the returned exiles, gathered around me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice.
Ezra 10:2 – And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
Ezra 10:10 – And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.
Become unequally yoked
2 Cor 6:14 – Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
2 Cor 6:15 – What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?
2 Cor 6:16 – What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Fall in a snare and trap
Josh 23:12 – For if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations remaining among you and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
Josh 23:13 – know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you, but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good ground that the LORD your God has given you.
Anger God
Ezra 9:14 – shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
Ezra 10:14 – Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us.”
Do great evil and act treacherously against God
Ezra 9:13 – And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this,
Neh 13:27 – Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”
Commit abomination
Mal 2:11 – Judah has been faithless, and abomination has been committed in Israel and in Jerusalem. For Judah has profaned the sanctuary of the LORD, which he loves, and has married the daughter of a foreign god.
As a result of committing adultery
Prov 5:20 – Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
Prov 5:21 – For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths.
Mal 2:13 – And this second thing you do. You cover the LORD’s altar with tears, with weeping and groaning because he no longer regards the offering or accepts it with favor from your hand.
Mal 2:14 – But you say, “Why does he not?” Because the LORD was witness between you and the wife of your youth, to whom you have been faithless, though she is your companion and your wife by covenant.
Mal 2:15 – Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
Mal 2:16 – “For the man who hates and divorces, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Parables and analogies
God is the husband of Israel
Isa 54:5 – For your Maker is your husband, the LORD of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.
Jer 2:2 – “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD, “I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
Jer 3:1 – “If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the LORD.
Jer 3:14 – “Return, O backsliding children,” says the LORD; “for I am married to you. I will take you, one from a city and two from a family, and I will bring you to Zion. (NKJV)
Jer 3:20 – Surely, as a treacherous wife leaves her husband, so have you been treacherous to me, O house of Israel, declares the LORD.'”
Jer 31:32 – not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD.
Ezek 16:8 – “When I passed by you again and saw you, behold, you were at the age for love, and I spread the corner of my garment over you and covered your nakedness; I made my vow to you and entered into a covenant with you, declares the Lord GOD, and you became mine.
Ezek 23:4 – Oholah was the name of the elder and Oholibah the name of her sister. They became mine, and they bore sons and daughters. As for their names, Oholah is Samaria, and Oholibah is Jerusalem.
Hos 2:7 – She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say, ‘I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.’
Hos 2:16 – “And in that day, declares the LORD, you will call me ‘My Husband,’ and no longer will you call me ‘My Baal.’
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Hos 2:20 – I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD.
Rev 21:2 – And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
Bride and bridegroom
Isa 61:10 – I will greatly rejoice in the LORD; my soul shall exult in my God, for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness, as a bridegroom decks himself like a priest with a beautiful headdress, and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels.
Isa 62:5 – For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
Jer 7:34 – And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.
Jer 16:9 – For thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will silence in this place, before your eyes and in your days, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride.
Jer 25:10 – Moreover, I will banish from them the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the grinding of the millstones and the light of the lamp.
Jer 33:11 – the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the voices of those who sing, as they bring thank offerings to the house of the LORD: “‘Give thanks to the LORD of hosts, for the LORD is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!’For I will restore the fortunes of the land as at first, says the LORD.
Bride
Isa 49:18 – Lift up your eyes around and see; they all gather, they come to you. As I live, declares the LORD, you shall put them all on as an ornament; you shall bind them on as a bride does.
Jer 2:2 – “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem, Thus says the LORD, “I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.
Jer 2:32 – Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Bridegroom
Ps 19:5 – which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy.
Joel 1:8 – Lament like a virgin wearing sackcloth for the bridegroom of her youth.
Marriage and Jesus Christ
At wedding in Cana (Jn 2:1-11)
Jesus’ teachings about marriage
Mt 19:4 – He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female,
Mt 19:5 – and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh’?
Mt 19:6 – So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Mt 19:8 – He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
Mt 19:9 – And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
Mk 10:6 – But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’
Mk 10:7 – ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and mother and hold fast to his wife,
Mk 10:8 – and they shall become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two but one flesh.
Mk 10:9 – What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Mk 10:11 – And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,
Mk 10:12 – and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Lk 14:18 – But they all alike began to make excuses.
Lk 14:20 – And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’
Lk 14:26 – “If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple.
Lk 18:29 – And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God,
Lk 18:30 – who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the age to come eternal life.”
Analogies using wedding or marriage
Jesus as the bridegroom
Mt 9:15 – And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
Mt 25:1 – “Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom.
Mt 25:5 – As the bridegroom was delayed, they all became drowsy and slept.
Mt 25:6 – But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Here is the bridegroom! Come out to meet him.’
Mt 25:10 – And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
Mk 2:19 – And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
Mk 2:20 – The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in that day.
Lk 5:34 – And Jesus said to them, “Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?
Lk 5:35 – The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days.”
The church as the bride of Christ
2 Cor 11:2 – I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Eph 5:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Eph 5:24 – Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Rev 21:9 – Then came one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls full of the seven last plagues and spoke to me, saying, “Come, I will show you the Bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
Christ and church as model for marriage
Eph 5:24 – Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Eph 5:25 – Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Eph 5:28 – In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Eph 5:29 – For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church
Marriage supper of the Lamb (Rev 19:7-9)
Parables spoken by Jesus that refer to wedding feast
Parable of the wedding feast (Mt 22:1-14)
Parable of the ten virgins (Mt 25:1-13)
Parable of servant waiting for master’s return (Lk 12:35-40)
Parable of guest at wedding feast (Lk 14:7-11)
Principles concerning marriage
For husband and wife
Marry within the faith
Lev 21:14 – A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people
Deut 7:3 – You shall not intermarry with them, giving your daughters to their sons or taking their daughters for your sons,
Deut 7:4 – for they would turn away your sons from following me, to serve other gods. Then the anger of the LORD would be kindled against you, and he would destroy you quickly.
Judg 14:3 – But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”
1 Kgs 11:1 – Now King Solomon loved many foreign women, along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,
1 Kgs 11:2 – from the nations concerning which the LORD had said to the people of Israel, “You shall not enter into marriage with them, neither shall they with you, for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon clung to these in love.
Ezra 9:1 – After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.
Ezra 9:2 – For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”
Ezra 9:10 – “And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,
Ezra 9:11 – which you commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, ‘The land that you are entering, to take possession of it, is a land impure with the impurity of the peoples of the lands, with their abominations that have filled it from end to end with their uncleanness.
Ezra 9:12 – Therefore do not give your daughters to their sons, neither take their daughters for your sons, and never seek their peace or prosperity, that you may be strong and eat the good of the land and leave it for an inheritance to your children forever.’
Ezra 9:13 – And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, seeing that you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserved and have given us such a remnant as this,
Ezra 9:14 – shall we break your commandments again and intermarry with the peoples who practice these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?
1 Cor 7:39 – A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
1 Cor 9:5 – Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
2 Cor 6:14 – Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
2 Cor 6:15 – What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?
2 Cor 6:16 – What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, “I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
One spouse
Have one wife
1 Cor 7:2 – But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
1 Tim 3:2 – Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach
1 Tim 3:12 – Let deacons each be the husband of one wife, managing their children and their own households well.
Tit 1:6 – if anyone is above reproach, the husband of one wife, and his children are believers and not open to the charge of debauchery or insubordination.
Have one husband
Hos 3:3 – And I said to her, “You must dwell as mine for many days. You shall not play the whore, or belong to another man; so will I also be to you.”
1 Cor 7:2 – But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
1 Tim 5:9 – Let a widow be enrolled if she is not less than sixty years of age, having been the wife of one husband
2 Cor 11:2 – I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives
Rom 7:2 – Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.
Rom 7:3 – Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
1 Cor 7:10 – To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband
1 Cor 7:11 – (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.
1 Cor 7:39 – A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
Should not deprive one another
Ex 21:10 – If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
1 Cor 7:3 – The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
1 Cor 7:5 – Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Husband has authority over the body of wife
Num 5:20 – But if you have gone astray, though you are under your husband’s authority, and if you have defiled yourself, and some man other than your husband has lain with you,
Num 5:29 – “This is the law in cases of jealousy, when a wife, though under her husband’s authority, goes astray and defiles herself,
1 Cor 7:4 – For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
The head of the wife is her husband
1 Cor 11:3 – But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
Eph 5:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Wife has authority over the body of husband
1 Cor 7:4 – For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
For the wife
A virgin at time of marriage
Gen 24:16 – The young woman was very attractive in appearance, a maiden whom no man had known. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.
Gen 24:43 – behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, to whom I shall say, “Please give me a little water from your jar to drink,”
Lev 21:7 – They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
Lev 21:13 – And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
Lev 21:14 – A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people
Deut 22:15 – then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.
Deut 22:16 – And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her;
Deut 22:17 – and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, “I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity.” And yet this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city.
Deut 22:18 – Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him,
Deut 22:19 – and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.
Deut 22:20 – But if the thing is true, that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman,
Deut 22:21 – then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father’s house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Judg 21:12 – And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
Isa 62:5 – For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. [footnote text=“"A young woman" is a translation of the Hebrew word that means a virgin.”]
Ezek 44:22 – They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
Lk 2:36 – And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin
1 Cor 7:28 – But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. [footnote text=“"A betrothed woman" is a translation of the Greek word that means a virgin.”]
1 Cor 7:34 – and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. [footnote text=“"A betrothed woman" is a translation of the Greek word that means a virgin.”]
2 Cor 11:2 – I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Submit to her husband
Eph 5:22 – Wives, submit to your own husbands, as to the Lord.
Eph 5:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Eph 5:24 – Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
1 Cor 11:3 – But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
Col 3:18 – Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord.
Tit 2:5 – to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
1 Pet 3:1 – Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives–
1 Pet 3:5 – For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their husbands
Respect her husband
Eph 5:33 – However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
1 Pet 3:1, 2 – Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives, when they see your respectful and pure conduct.
Give her husband his conjugal rights
1 Cor 7:3 – The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
Not separate from her husband
1 Cor 7:10 – To the married I give this charge (not I, but the Lord): the wife should not separate from her husband
Love her husband and children
Tit 2:4 – and so train the young women to love their husbands and children
For husband
Not divorce his wife
Deut 22:13 – “If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her
Deut 22:16 – And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her;
Deut 22:19 – and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.
Mal 2:16 – “For the man who hates and divorces, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Mt 5:32 – But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
1 Cor 7:11 – (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.
Love his wife as himself
Eph 5:25 – Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her
Eph 5:28 – In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.
Eph 5:33 – However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let the wife see that she respects her husband.
Col 3:19 – Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
Guard himself in the spirit
Mal 2:15 – Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
Mal 2:16 – “For the man who hates and divorces, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Be understanding toward his wife
Col 3:19 – Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them.
1 Pet 3:7 – Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Give his wife her conjugal rights
1 Cor 7:3 – The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
For all
Man must not separate
Mt 19:6 – So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Mk 10:9 – What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”
Marriage to be held in honor among all
Heb 13:4 – Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Results of obeying teachings regarding marriage
Adversary is not given occasion to slander
1 Tim 5:14 – So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
The word of God may not be reviled
Tit 2:5 – to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.
The husband may be won by conduct of the wife
1 Pet 3:1 – Likewise, wives, be subject to your own husbands, so that even if some do not obey the word, they may be won without a word by the conduct of their wives–
Prayers may not be hindered
1 Pet 3:7 – Likewise, husbands, live with your wives in an understanding way, showing honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they are heirs with you of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
Positive examples
Of wives
Michal (1 Sam 19:11-18)
Abigail (1 Sam 25:14-42)
Pilate’s wife (Mt 27:19)
Described positively
A fruitful vine (Ps 128:3)
Excellent (Prov 12:4; 31:10)
Crown of her husband (Prov 12:4)
A good thing for the husband (Prov 18:22)
Prudent (Prov 19:14)
Fears the Lord (Prov 31:30)
Trustworthy (Prov 31:11)
Does her husband good, not harm (Prov 31:12)
Pure (1 Pet 3:2)
Gentle & quiet spirit (1 Pet 3:4)
Of husband and wife
Isaac and Rebekah (Gen 24:1-7, 67; 25:21; 26:8)
Woman who fears the LORD; her husband (Prov 31:10-12, 23, 28-29)
Aquila and Priscilla (Acts 18:2-3, 26)
Of actions in marriage
Sarah’s submission (1 Pet 3:5-6)
Negative examples
Of wives
Described negatively
Brings shame; rottenness in his bones (Prov 12:4)
Quarrelsome (Prov 19:13; 21:9, 19; 25:24)
Of choice of wife
Samson and Philistine wife (Jud 14:1-15:8)
David taking Bathsheba as wife (2 Sam 11:27; 2 Sam 12:9-10)
Adonijah requesting Abishag as wife (1 Kgs 2:13-25)
Solomon marrying Gentile wives (1 Kgs 11:1-8)
Ahab marrying Jezebel (1 Kgs 16:31)
Herod marrying his brother’s wife (Mk 6:18; Lk 3:19)
Of husband and wife
Adam and Even (Gen 3:6-19)
Jacob and Rachel and Leah (Gen 29:31-33; 30:1-2)
Ahab and Jezebel (1 Kgs 21:25)
Jehoram and the daughter of Ahab (2 Kgs 8:18)
Mordecai and Zeresh (Esth 5:14)
Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11)
Of actions in marriage
Rebekah’s deception (Gen 27:5-13)
Delilah (Judg 16:6)
Mical despising David (2 Sam 6:16, 20-23)
Queen Vashti’s disobedience (Est 1:10-20)
Job’s wife (Job 2:9-10)
Marriage and sex
Marriage as connected to sexual union and child-bearing
Gen 16:3 – So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
Gen 29:28 – Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.
Gen 29:30 – So Jacob went in to Rachel also, and he loved Rachel more than Leah, and served Laban for another seven years.
Gen 30:4 – So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
Gen 30:9 – When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Gen 38:14 – she took off her widow’s garments and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.
Ex 6:20 – Amram took as his wife Jochebed his father’s sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years.
Ex 6:23 – Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and the sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Ex 6:25 – Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites by their clans.
Ex 22:16 – “If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife.
Deut 21:13 – And she shall take off the clothes in which she was captured and shall remain in your house and lament her father and her mother a full month. After that you may go in to her and be her husband, and she shall be your wife.
Deut 22:29 – then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.
Deut 25:5 – “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
Judg 15:1 – After some days, at the time of wheat harvest, Samson went to visit his wife with a young goat. And he said, “I will go in to my wife in the chamber.” But her father would not allow him to go in.
Judg 21:1 – Now the men of Israel had sworn at Mizpah, “No one of us shall give his daughter in marriage to Benjamin.”
Judg 21:7 – What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them any of our daughters for wives?”
Judg 21:16 – Then the elders of the congregation said, “What shall we do for wives for those who are left, since the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?”
Ruth 4:10 – Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.”
Ruth 4:13 – So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.
2 Sam 11:27 – And when the mourning was over, David sent and brought her to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the LORD.
1 Chr 2:21 – Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub.
1 Chr 2:35 – So Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha his slave, and she bore him Attai.
1 Chr 5:1 – The sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn, but because he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, so that he could not be enrolled as the oldest son;
Jer 29:6 – Take wives and have sons and daughters; take wives for your sons, and give your daughters in marriage, that they may bear sons and daughters; multiply there, and do not decrease.
Hos 1:3 – So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
Mal 2:15 – Did he not make them one, with a portion of the Spirit in their union? And what was the one God seeking? Godly offspring. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and let none of you be faithless to the wife of your youth.
Mt 1:24 – When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife,
Mt 1:25 – but knew her not until she had given birth to a son. And he called his name Jesus.
Marriage as connected to passion
1 Cor 7:9 – But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.
1 Cor 7:36 – If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry–it is no sin.
1 Tim 5:11 – But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry
Virginity
Gen 24:16 – The young woman was very attractive in appearance, a maiden whom no man had known. She went down to the spring and filled her jar and came up.
Gen 24:43 – behold, I am standing by the spring of water. Let the virgin who comes out to draw water, to whom I shall say, “Please give me a little water from your jar to drink,”
Lev 21:7 – They shall not marry a prostitute or a woman who has been defiled, neither shall they marry a woman divorced from her husband, for the priest is holy to his God.
Lev 21:13 – And he shall take a wife in her virginity.
Lev 21:14 – A widow, or a divorced woman, or a woman who has been defiled, or a prostitute, these he shall not marry. But he shall take as his wife a virgin of his own people
Deut 22:15 – then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.
Deut 22:16 – And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her;
Deut 22:17 – and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, “I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity.” And yet this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city.
Deut 22:18 – Then the elders of that city shall take the man and whip him,
Deut 22:19 – and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.
Deut 22:20 – But if the thing is true, that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman,
Deut 22:21 – then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father’s house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Judg 21:12 – And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead 400 young virgins who had not known a man by lying with him, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
Isa 62:5 – For as a young man marries a young woman, so shall your sons marry you, and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you. [footnote text=“"A young woman" is a translation of the Hebrew word that means a virgin.”]
Ezek 44:22 – They shall not marry a widow or a divorced woman, but only virgins of the offspring of the house of Israel, or a widow who is the widow of a priest.
Lk 2:36 – And there was a prophetess, Anna, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher. She was advanced in years, having lived with her husband seven years from when she was a virgin
1 Cor 7:28 – But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that. [footnote text=“"A betrothed woman" is a translation of the Greek word that means a virgin.”]
1 Cor 7:34 – and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband. [footnote text=“"A betrothed woman" is a translation of the Greek word that means a virgin.”]
2 Cor 11:2 – I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Sex to be only with one’s spouse
Prov 5:18 – Let your fountain be blessed, and rejoice in the wife of your youth,
Prov 5:19 – a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love.
Prov 5:20 – Why should you be intoxicated, my son, with a forbidden woman and embrace the bosom of an adulteress?
Prov 5:21 – For a man’s ways are before the eyes of the LORD, and he ponders all his paths.
1 Cor 7:2 – But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
1 Cor 7:5 – Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
1 Cor 7:9 – But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to be aflame with passion.
Heb 13:4 – Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.
Prohibitions regarding sex and marriage
Not to take wife of another man or family member
Deut 22:22 – “If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Deut 22:23 – “If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,
Deut 22:24 – then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Deut 22:30 – “A man shall not take his father’s wife, so that he does not uncover his father’s nakedness.
Lev 18:20 – And you shall not lie sexually with your neighbor’s wife and so make yourself unclean with her.
Lev 20:21 – If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
Prov 6:27 – Can a man carry fire next to his chest and his clothes not be burned?
Prov 6:28 – Or can one walk on hot coals and his feet not be scorched?
Prov 6:29 – So is he who goes in to his neighbor’s wife; none who touches her will go unpunished.
Ezek 22:11 – One commits abomination with his neighbor’s wife; another lewdly defiles his daughter-in-law; another in you violates his sister, his father’s daughter.
Mk 6:18 – For John had been saying to Herod, “It is not lawful for you to have your brother’s wife.”
Lk 3:19 – But Herod the tetrarch, who had been reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evil things that Herod had done
1 Cor 5:1 – It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not tolerated even among pagans, for a man has his father’s wife.
Not to deprive spouse of sex
1 Cor 7:3 – The husband should give to his wife her conjugal rights, and likewise the wife to her husband.
1 Cor 7:4 – For the wife does not have authority over her own body, but the husband does. Likewise the husband does not have authority over his own body, but the wife does.
1 Cor 7:5 – Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
Newlyweds
Gen 24:67 – Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Deut 24:5 – “When a man is newly married, he shall not go out with the army or be liable for any other public duty. He shall be free at home one year to be happy with his wife whom he has taken.
Joel 2:16 – gather the people. Consecrate the congregation; assemble the elders; gather the children, even nursing infants. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.
Lk 14:20 – And another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’
Divorce and remarriage
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Divorce prohibited
Mal 2:16 – “For the man who hates and divorces, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Mt 19:8 – He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
1 Cor 7:11 – (but if she does, she should remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband), and the husband should not divorce his wife.
Divorce related to sexual immorality
Deut 24:1 – “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,
Jer 3:8 – She saw that for all the adulteries of that faithless one, Israel, I had sent her away with a decree of divorce. Yet her treacherous sister Judah did not fear, but she too went and played the whore.
Mt 1:19 – And her husband Joseph, being a just man and unwilling to put her to shame, resolved to divorce her quietly.
Mt 5:32 – But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Mt 19:9 – And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
Divorce related to hate
Deut 22:13 – “If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and then hates her
Deut 22:19 – and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.
Deut 24:3 – and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife,
Mal 2:16 – “For the man who hates and divorces, says the LORD, the God of Israel, covers his garment with violence, says the LORD of hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”
Divorce related to unbelieving spouse
1 Cor 7:12 – To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.
1 Cor 7:13 – If any woman has a husband who is an unbeliever, and he consents to live with her, she should not divorce him.
Divorcing and marrying another
Deut 24:4 – then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the LORD. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.
Jer 3:1 – “If a man divorces his wife and she goes from him and becomes another man’s wife, will he return to her? Would not that land be greatly polluted? You have played the whore with many lovers; and would you return to me? declares the LORD.
Mt 19:8 – He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
Mt 19:9 – And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”
Mk 10:11 – And he said to them, “Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery against her,
Mk 10:12 – and if she divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.”
Lk 16:18 – “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
Marrying a divorced woman
Deut 24:1 – “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,
Deut 24:2 – and if she goes and becomes another man’s wife,
Deut 24:3 – and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife,
Deut 24:4 – then her former husband, who sent her away, may not take her again to be his wife, after she has been defiled, for that is an abomination before the LORD. And you shall not bring sin upon the land that the LORD your God is giving you for an inheritance.
Mt 5:32 – But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Lk 16:18 – “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a woman divorced from her husband commits adultery.
Questions posed to Jesus about divorce and remarriage
Mt 19:3 – And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?”
Mt 19:7 – They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”
Mt 22:28 – In the resurrection, therefore, of the seven, whose wife will she be? For they all had her.”
Mk 10:2 – And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”
Mk 12:23 – In the resurrection, when they rise again, whose wife will she be? For the seven had her as wife.”
Lk 20:33 – In the resurrection, therefore, whose wife will the woman be? For the seven had her as wife.”
Those who remarried
Abraham (Gen 25:1; 1 Chron 1:32)
Ruth (Ruth 3:1-4:13)
Abigail (1 Sam 25:39-42)
The Samaritan woman (Jn 4:16-18)
If husband dies, can remarry in the Lord
1 Cor 7:39 – A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
1 Tim 5:14 – So I would have younger widows marry, bear children, manage their households, and give the adversary no occasion for slander.
Marriage practices
Actions involved in marriage
Man sees
Gen 34:2 – And when Shechem the son of Hamor the Hivite, the prince of the land, saw her, he seized her and lay with her and humiliated her.
Gen 38:2 – There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her and went in to her,
Gen 38:3 – and she conceived and bore a son, and he called his name Er.
Gen 38:4 – She conceived again and bore a son, and she called his name Onan.
Gen 38:5 – Yet again she bore a son, and she called his name Shelah. Judah was in Chezib when she bore him.
Deut 21:11 – and you see among the captives a beautiful woman, and you desire to take her to be your wife,
Judg 14:2 – Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.”
Man requests
Gen 29:18 – Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Gen 34:4 – So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl for my wife.”
Judg 14:2 – Then he came up and told his father and mother, “I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah. Now get her for me as my wife.”
Judg 14:3 – But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”
1 Sam 25:39 – When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the LORD who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. The LORD has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent and spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife.
1 Sam 25:40 – When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.”
Woman requests
Ruth 3:9 – He said, “Who are you?” And she answered, “I am Ruth, your servant. Spread your wings over your servant, for you are a redeemer.”
Ruth 3:10 – And he said, “May you be blessed by the LORD, my daughter. You have made this last kindness greater than the first in that you have not gone after young men, whether poor or rich.
Man pays bride price to bride’s family to be betrothed
Gen 34:11 – Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.
Gen 34:12 – Ask me for as great a bride price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife.”
Ex 22:16 – “If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife.
Deut 22:29 – then the man who lay with her shall give to the father of the young woman fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife, because he has violated her. He may not divorce her all his days.
2 Sam 3:14 – Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, for whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
Woman obeys
Gen 24:57 – They said, “Let us call the young woman and ask her.”
Gen 24:58 – And they called Rebekah and said to her, “Will you go with this man?” She said, “I will go.”
Gen 24:61 – Then Rebekah and her young women arose and rode on the camels and followed the man. Thus the servant took Rebekah and went his way.
1 Sam 25:40 – When the servants of David came to Abigail at Carmel, they said to her, “David has sent us to you to take you to him as his wife.”
1 Sam 25:41 – And she rose and bowed with her face to the ground and said, “Behold, your handmaid is a servant to wash the feet of the servants of my lord.”
1 Sam 25:42 – And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.
Man takes a wife [footnote text=“The phrase "takes a wife" is sometimes translated as "marries."”]
Lamech
Gen 4:19 – And Lamech took two wives. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Sons of God
Gen 6:2 – the sons of God saw that the daughters of man were attractive. And they took as their wives any they chose.
Abraham
Gen 11:29 – And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
Gen 20:12 – Besides, she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father though not the daughter of my mother, and she became my wife.
Nahor
Gen 11:29 – And Abram and Nahor took wives. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor’s wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran the father of Milcah and Iscah.
Pharaoh
Gen 12:19 – Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her for my wife? Now then, here is your wife; take her, and go.”
Lot’s sons-in-law
Gen 19:14 – So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up! Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.
Abimelech
Gen 20:2 – And Abraham said of Sarah his wife, “She is my sister.” And Abimelech king of Gerar sent and took Sarah.
Gen 20:3 – But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night and said to him, “Behold, you are a dead man because of the woman whom you have taken, for she is a man’s wife.”
Isaac
Gen 24:67 – Then Isaac brought her into the tent of Sarah his mother and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. So Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.
Gen 25:20 – and Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to be his wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean.
Esau
Gen 26:34 – When Esau was forty years old, he took Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite to be his wife, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite
Gen 28:9 – Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth.
Gen 36:2 – Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
Gen 36:3 – and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.
Judah
Gen 38:2 – There Judah saw the daughter of a certain Canaanite whose name was Shua. He took her and went in to her,
Amram
Ex 2:1 – Now a man from the house of Levi went and took as his wife a Levite woman.
Ex 6:20 – Amram took as his wife Jochebed his father’s sister, and she bore him Aaron and Moses, the years of the life of Amram being 137 years.
Aaron
Ex 6:23 – Aaron took as his wife Elisheba, the daughter of Amminadab and the sister of Nahshon, and she bore him Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Eleazar
Ex 6:25 – Eleazar, Aaron’s son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel, and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites by their clans.
Moses
Num 12:1 – Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Cushite woman whom he had married, for he had married a Cushite woman.
God’s people who married foreign women
Judg 3:6 – And their daughters they took to themselves for wives, and their own daughters they gave to their sons, and they served their gods.
Ezra 9:2 – For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”
Ezra 10:2 – And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this.
Ezra 10:10 – And Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, “You have broken faith and married foreign women, and so increased the guilt of Israel.
Ezra 10:14 – Let our officials stand for the whole assembly. Let all in our cities who have taken foreign wives come at appointed times, and with them the elders and judges of every city, until the fierce wrath of our God over this matter is turned away from us.”
Ezra 10:17 – and by the first day of the first month they had come to the end of all the men who had married foreign women.
Ezra 10:18 – Now there were found some of the sons of the priests who had married foreign women: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah, some of the sons of Jeshua the son of Jozadak and his brothers.
Ezra 10:44 – All these had married foreign women, and some of the women had even borne children.
Neh 13:23 – In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
Neh 13:27 – Shall we then listen to you and do all this great evil and act treacherously against our God by marrying foreign women?”
Samson
Judg 14:8 – After some days he returned to take her. And he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey.
People of Benjamin
Judg 21:23 – And the people of Benjamin did so and took their wives, according to their number, from the dancers whom they carried off. Then they went and returned to their inheritance and rebuilt the towns and lived in them.
Mahlon and Chilion
Ruth 1:4 – These took Moabite wives; the name of the one was Orpah and the name of the other Ruth. They lived there about ten years,
Boaz
Ruth 4:13 – So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And he went in to her, and the LORD gave her conception, and she bore a son.
David
1 Sam 25:39 – When David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, “Blessed be the LORD who has avenged the insult I received at the hand of Nabal, and has kept back his servant from wrongdoing. The LORD has returned the evil of Nabal on his own head.” Then David sent and spoke to Abigail, to take her as his wife.
1 Sam 25:43 – David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and both of them became his wives.
2 Sam 12:9 – Why have you despised the word of the LORD, to do what is evil in his sight? You have struck down Uriah the Hittite with the sword and have taken his wife to be your wife and have killed him with the sword of the Ammonites.
2 Sam 12:10 – Now therefore the sword shall never depart from your house, because you have despised me and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.’
Ahimaaz
1 Kgs 4:15 – Ahimaaz, in Naphtali (he had taken Basemath the daughter of Solomon as his wife);
Solomon
1 Kgs 7:8 – His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter whom he had taken in marriage.
Ahab
1 Kgs 16:31 – And as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, he took for his wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal and worshiped him.
Caleb
1 Chr 2:19 – When Azubah died, Caleb married Ephrath, who bore him Hur.
Hezron
1 Chr 2:21 – Afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was sixty years old, and she bore him Segub.
Mered
1 Chr 4:17 – The sons of Ezrah: Jether, Mered, Epher, and Jalon. These are the sons of Bithiah, the daughter of Pharaoh, whom Mered married; and she conceived and bore Miriam, Shammai, and Ishbah, the father of Eshtemoa.
Sons of Kish
1 Chr 23:22 – Eleazar died having no sons, but only daughters; their kinsmen, the sons of Kish, married them.
Rehoboam
2 Chr 11:18 – Rehoboam took as wife Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse,
2 Chr 11:20 – After her he took Maacah the daughter of Absalom, who bore him Abijah, Attai, Ziza, and Shelomith.
2 Chr 11:21 – Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).
Abijah
2 Chr 13:21 – But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
Jehoiada
2 Chr 24:3 – Jehoiada got for him two wives, and he had sons and daughters.
Sons of Barzillai
Ezra 2:61 – Also, of the sons of the priests: the sons of Habaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, and the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called by their name).
Neh 7:63 – Also, of the priests: the sons of Hobaiah, the sons of Hakkoz, the sons of Barzillai (who had taken a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite and was called by their name).
Hosea
Hos 1:3 – So he went and took Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she conceived and bore him a son.
Joseph
Mt 1:24 – When Joseph woke from sleep, he did as the angel of the Lord commanded him: he took his wife,
Herod
Mk 6:17 – For it was Herod who had sent and seized John and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife, because he had married her.
Brothers of Jesus
1 Cor 9:5 – Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
Cephas (Peter)
1 Cor 9:5 – Do we not have the right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the brothers of the Lord and Cephas?
Man given a wife
Gen 41:45 – And Pharaoh called Joseph’s name Zaphenath-paneah. And he gave him in marriage Asenath, the daughter of Potiphera priest of On. So Joseph went out over the land of Egypt.
1 Chr 7:15 – And Machir took a wife for Huppim and for Shuppim. The name of his sister was Maacah. And the name of the second was Zelophehad, and Zelophehad had daughters.
Betrothal
Deut 20:7 – And is there any man who has betrothed a wife and has not taken her? Let him go back to his house, lest he die in the battle and another man take her.’
Hos 2:19 – And I will betroth you to me forever. I will betroth you to me in righteousness and in justice, in steadfast love and in mercy.
Hos 2:20 – I will betroth you to me in faithfulness. And you shall know the LORD.
Betrothed upon paying bride price to bride’s father
Gen 29:18 – Jacob loved Rachel. And he said, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
Gen 34:11 – Shechem also said to her father and to her brothers, “Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you say to me I will give.
Gen 34:12 – Ask me for as great a bride price and gift as you will, and I will give whatever you say to me. Only give me the young woman to be my wife.”
Ex 22:16 – “If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married and lies with her, he shall give the bride-price for her and make her his wife.
1 Sam 18:25 – Then Saul said, “Thus shall you say to David, ‘The king desires no bride-price except a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, that he may be avenged of the king’s enemies.'” Now Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.
2 Sam 3:14 – Then David sent messengers to Ish-bosheth, Saul’s son, saying, “Give me my wife Michal, for whom I paid the bridal price of a hundred foreskins of the Philistines.”
Punishment for lying with a betrothed woman
Deut 22:23 – “If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,
Deut 22:24 – then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Deut 22:25 – “But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.
Betrothal of virgins
Deut 22:23 – “If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her
Lk 1:27 – to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David. And the virgin’s name was Mary.
2 Cor 11:2 – I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
Family involvement in marriage
Fathers give their daughters in marriage
Gen 24:50 – Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, “The thing has come from the LORD; we cannot speak to you bad or good.
Gen 24:51 – Behold, Rebekah is before you; take her and go, and let her be the wife of your master’s son, as the LORD has spoken.”
Gen 29:19 – Laban said, “It is better that I give her to you than that I should give her to any other man; stay with me.”
Gen 29:28 – Jacob did so, and completed her week. Then Laban gave him his daughter Rachel to be his wife.
Gen 34:4 – So Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, “Get me this girl for my wife.”
Gen 34:8 – But Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him to be his wife.
Gen 34:9 – Make marriages with us. Give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.
Gen 34:21 – “These men are at peace with us; let them dwell in the land and trade in it, for behold, the land is large enough for them. Let us take their daughters as wives, and let us give them our daughters.
Gen 38:14 – she took off her widow’s garments and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.
Ex 22:17 – If her father utterly refuses to give her to him, he shall pay money equal to the bride-price for virgins.
Deut 22:16 – And the father of the young woman shall say to the elders, ‘I gave my daughter to this man to marry, and he hates her
Josh 15:16 – And Caleb said, “Whoever strikes Kiriath-sepher and captures it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as wife.”
Josh 15:17 – And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
Judg 1:12 – And Caleb said, “He who attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give him Achsah my daughter for a wife.”
Judg 1:13 – And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother, captured it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.
Judg 12:9 – He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
Judg 14:20 – And Samson’s wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man.
Judg 15:2 – And her father said, “I really thought that you utterly hated her, so I gave her to your companion. Is not her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her instead.”
1 Sam 18:17 – Then Saul said to David, “Here is my elder daughter Merab. I will give her to you for a wife. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” For Saul thought, “Let not my hand be against him, but let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
1 Sam 18:19 – But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite for a wife.
1 Sam 18:21 – Saul thought, “Let me give her to him, that she may be a snare for him and that the hand of the Philistines may be against him.” Therefore Saul said to David a second time, “You shall now be my son-in-law.”
1 Sam 18:27 – David arose and went, along with his men, and killed two hundred of the Philistines. And David brought their foreskins, which were given in full number to the king, that he might become the king’s son-in-law. And Saul gave him his daughter Michal for a wife.
1 Sam 25:44 – Saul had given Michal his daughter, David’s wife, to Palti the son of Laish, who was of Gallim.
2 Kgs 14:9 – And Jehoash king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.
1 Chr 2:35 – So Sheshan gave his daughter in marriage to Jarha his slave, and she bore him Attai.
2 Chr 25:18 – And Joash the king of Israel sent word to Amaziah king of Judah, “A thistle on Lebanon sent to a cedar on Lebanon, saying, ‘Give your daughter to my son for a wife,’ and a wild beast of Lebanon passed by and trampled down the thistle.
Parental involvement in choice of spouse
Gen 24:3 – that I may make you swear by the LORD, the God of heaven and God of the earth, that you will not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, among whom I dwell,
Gen 24:4 – but will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.”
Gen 24:7 – The LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, ‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ he will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there.
Gen 24:37 – My master made me swear, saying, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell,
Gen 24:38 – but you shall go to my father’s house and to my clan and take a wife for my son.’
Gen 24:40 – But he said to me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send his angel with you and prosper your way. You shall take a wife for my son from my clan and from my father’s house.
Gen 28:1 – Then Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women.
Gen 28:2 – Arise, go to Paddan-aram to the house of Bethuel your mother’s father, and take as your wife from there one of the daughters of Laban your mother’s brother.
Gen 28:6 – Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan-aram to take a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he directed him, “You must not take a wife from the Canaanite women,”
Gen 38:6 – And Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar.
Judg 12:9 – He had thirty sons, and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years.
Judg 14:3 – But his father and mother said to him, “Is there not a woman among the daughters of your relatives, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?” But Samson said to his father, “Get her for me, for she is right in my eyes.”
Ruth 3:1 – Then Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
Ruth 3:2 – Is not Boaz our relative, with whose young women you were? See, he is winnowing barley tonight at the threshing floor.
Ruth 3:3 – Wash therefore and anoint yourself, and put on your cloak and go down to the threshing floor, but do not make yourself known to the man until he has finished eating and drinking.
Ruth 3:4 – But when he lies down, observe the place where he lies. Then go and uncover his feet and lie down, and he will tell you what to do.”
Parents keep evidence of virginity
Deut 22:15 – then the father of the young woman and her mother shall take and bring out the evidence of her virginity to the elders of the city in the gate.
Deut 22:17 – and behold, he has accused her of misconduct, saying, “I did not find in your daughter evidence of virginity.” And yet this is the evidence of my daughter’s virginity.’ And they shall spread the cloak before the elders of the city.
Family blesses
Gen 24:60 – And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become thousands of ten thousands, and may your offspring possess the gate of those who hate them!”
Marriage feast
Gen 29:21 – Then Jacob said to Laban, “Give me my wife that I may go in to her, for my time is completed.”
Gen 29:22 – So Laban gathered together all the people of the place and made a feast.
Judg 14:10 – His father went down to the woman, and Samson prepared a feast there, for so the young men used to do.
Judg 14:12 – And Samson said to them, “Let me now put a riddle to you. If you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothes,
Mt 9:15 – And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast.
Mt 22:1 – And again Jesus spoke to them in parables, saying,
Mt 22:2 – “The kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king who gave a wedding feast for his son,
Mt 22:3 – and sent his servants to call those who were invited to the wedding feast, but they would not come.
Mt 22:4 – Again he sent other servants, saying, ‘Tell those who are invited, See, I have prepared my dinner, my oxen and my fat calves have been slaughtered, and everything is ready. Come to the wedding feast.’
Mt 22:8 – Then he said to his servants, ‘The wedding feast is ready, but those invited were not worthy.
Mt 22:9 – Go therefore to the main roads and invite to the wedding feast as many as you find.’
Mt 22:10 – And those servants went out into the roads and gathered all whom they found, both bad and good. So the wedding hall was filled with guests.
Mt 25:10 – And while they were going to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.
Mk 2:19 – And Jesus said to them, “Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? As long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.
Lk 12:36 – and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks.
Lk 14:7 – Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them,
Lk 14:8 – “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him,
Jn 2:1 – On the third day there was a wedding at Cana in Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there.
Jn 2:2 – Jesus also was invited to the wedding with his disciples.
Jn 2:3 – When the wine ran out, the mother of Jesus said to him, “They have no wine.”
Jn 2:8 – And he said to them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the feast.” So they took it.
Jn 2:9 – When the master of the feast tasted the water now become wine, and did not know where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), the master of the feast called the bridegroom
Jn 2:10 – and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and when people have drunk freely, then the poor wine. But you have kept the good wine until now.”
Multiple wives and concubines
Gen 16:3 – So, after Abram had lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai, Abram’s wife, took Hagar the Egyptian, her servant, and gave her to Abram her husband as a wife.
Gen 30:4 – So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
Gen 30:9 – When Leah saw that she had ceased bearing children, she took her servant Zilpah and gave her to Jacob as a wife.
Gen 4:19 – And Lamech took two wives. The name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.
Gen 28:9 – Esau went to Ishmael and took as his wife, besides the wives he had, Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael, Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebaioth.
Gen 36:2 – Esau took his wives from the Canaanites: Adah the daughter of Elon the Hittite, Oholibamah the daughter of Anah the daughter of Zibeon the Hivite,
Gen 36:3 – and Basemath, Ishmael’s daughter, the sister of Nebaioth.
Ex 21:10 – If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marital rights.
Lev 18:18 – And you shall not take a woman as a rival wife to her sister, uncovering her nakedness while her sister is still alive.
Deut 17:17 – And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.
Deut 21:15 – “If a man has two wives, the one loved and the other unloved, and both the loved and the unloved have borne him children, and if the firstborn son belongs to the unloved,
Judg 8:30 – Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives.
1 Sam 1:4 – On the day when Elkanah sacrificed, he would give portions to Peninnah his wife and to all her sons and daughters.
1 Sam 25:42 – And Abigail hurried and rose and mounted a donkey, and her five young women attended her. She followed the messengers of David and became his wife.
1 Sam 25:43 – David also took Ahinoam of Jezreel, and both of them became his wives.
2 Sam 5:13 – And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.
1 Kgs 11:3 – He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.
1 Chr 14:3 – And David took more wives in Jerusalem, and David fathered more sons and daughters.
2 Chr 11:21 – Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).
2 Chr 13:21 – But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
Concubine(s)
Of Nahor
Gen 22:24 – Moreover, his concubine, whose name was Reumah, bore Tebah, Gaham, Tahash, and Maacah.
Of Abraham
Gen 25:1 – Abraham took another wife, whose name was Keturah.
Gen 25:6 – But to the sons of his concubines Abraham gave gifts, and while he was still living he sent them away from his son Isaac, eastward to the east country.
1 Chr 1:32 – The sons of Keturah, Abraham’s concubine: she bore Zimran, Jokshan, Medan, Midian, Ishbak, and Shuah. The sons of Jokshan: Sheba and Dedan.
Of Jacob/Israel
Gen 30:4 – So she gave him her servant Bilhah as a wife, and Jacob went in to her.
Gen 35:22 – While Israel lived in that land, Reuben went and lay with Bilhah his father’s concubine. And Israel heard of it. Now the sons of Jacob were twelve.
Of Eliphaz
Gen 36:12 – (Timna was a concubine of Eliphaz, Esau’s son; she bore Amalek to Eliphaz.) These are the sons of Adah, Esau’s wife.
Of a Levite
Judg 19:1 – In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah.
Judg 19:2 – And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months.
Of Caleb
1 Chr 2:46 – Ephah also, Caleb’s concubine, bore Haran, Moza, and Gazez; and Haran fathered Gazez.
1 Chr 7:14 – The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, whom his Aramean concubine bore; she bore Machir the father of Gilead.
Of rulers
Of Gideon
Judg 8:31 – And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech.
Of Saul
2 Sam 3:7 – Now Saul had a concubine whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah. And Ish-bosheth said to Abner, “Why have you gone in to my father’s concubine?”
2 Sam 21:11 – When David was told what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done,
Of David
2 Sam 5:13 – And David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, after he came from Hebron, and more sons and daughters were born to David.
2 Sam 15:16 – So the king went out, and all his household after him. And the king left ten concubines to keep the house.
2 Sam 16:21 – Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines, whom he has left to keep the house, and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself a stench to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”
2 Sam 16:22 – So they pitched a tent for Absalom on the roof. And Absalom went in to his father’s concubines in the sight of all Israel.
2 Sam 20:3 – And David came to his house at Jerusalem. And the king took the ten concubines whom he had left to care for the house and put them in a house under guard and provided for them, but did not go in to them. So they were shut up until the day of their death, living as if in widowhood.
1 Chr 3:9 – All these were David’s sons, besides the sons of the concubines, and Tamar was their sister.
Of Solomon
1 Kgs 11:3 – He had 700 wives, princesses, and 300 concubines. And his wives turned away his heart.
Eccl 2:8 – I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, the delight of the children of man.
Of Rehoboam
2 Chr 11:21 – Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines (he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters).
Of King Ahasuerus
Est 2:14 – In the evening she would go in, and in the morning she would return to the second harem in custody of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch, who was in charge of the concubines. She would not go in to the king again, unless the king delighted in her and she was summoned by name.
Of a king
Song 6:8 – There are sixty queens and eighty concubines, and virgins without number.
Song 6:9 – My dove, my perfect one, is the only one, the only one of her mother, pure to her who bore her. The young women saw her and called her blessed; the queens and concubines also, and they praised her.
Of Belshazzar
Dan 5:2 – Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them.
Dan 5:3 – Then they brought in the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them.
Dan 5:23 – but you have lifted up yourself against the Lord of heaven. And the vessels of his house have been brought in before you, and you and your lords, your wives, and your concubines have drunk wine from them. And you have praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood, and stone, which do not see or hear or know, but the God in whose hand is your breath, and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.
Marriages of kings to demonstrate power or make an alliance
Deut 17:17 – And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.
1 Kgs 2:17 – And he said, “Please ask King Solomon–he will not refuse you–to give me Abishag the Shunammite as my wife.”
1 Kgs 2:22 – King Solomon answered his mother, “And why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Ask for him the kingdom also, for he is my older brother, and on his side are Abiathar the priest and Joab the son of Zeruiah.”
1 Kgs 3:1 Solomon made a marriage alliance with Pharaoh king of Egypt. He took Pharaoh’s daughter and brought her into the city of David until he had finished building his own house and the house of the LORD and the wall around Jerusalem.
1 Kgs 7:8 – His own house where he was to dwell, in the other court back of the hall, was of like workmanship. Solomon also made a house like this hall for Pharaoh’s daughter whom he had taken in marriage.
1 Kgs 11:19 – And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him in marriage the sister of his own wife, the sister of Tahpenes the queen.
1 Kgs 20:2 – And he sent messengers into the city to Ahab king of Israel and said to him, “Thus says Ben-hadad:
1 Kgs 20:3 – ‘Your silver and your gold are mine; your best wives and children also are mine.'”
1 Kgs 20:5 – The messengers came again and said, “Thus says Ben-hadad: ‘I sent to you, saying, “Deliver to me your silver and your gold, your wives and your children.”
1 Kgs 20:7 – Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land and said, “Mark, now, and see how this man is seeking trouble, for he sent to me for my wives and my children, and for my silver and my gold, and I did not refuse him.”
2 Chr 13:21 – But Abijah grew mighty. And he took fourteen wives and had twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.
2 Chr 18:1 Now Jehoshaphat had great riches and honor, and he made a marriage alliance with Ahab.
Certificate of divorce
Deut 24:1 – “When a man takes a wife and marries her, if then she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency in her, and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, and she departs out of his house,
Deut 24:2 – and if she goes and becomes another man’s wife,
Deut 24:3 – and the latter man hates her and writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house, or if the latter man dies, who took her to be his wife,
Mt 5:31 – “It was also said, ‘Whoever divorces his wife, let him give her a certificate of divorce.’
Mt 5:32 – But I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
Mt 19:7 – They said to him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?”
Mt 19:8 – He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so.
Mk 10:4 – They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.”
Mk 10:5 – And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment.
Wives’ headcovering
1 Cor 11:5 – but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head–it is the same as if her head were shaven.
1 Cor 11:6 – For if a wife will not cover her head, then she should cut her hair short. But since it is disgraceful for a wife to cut off her hair or shave her head, let her cover her head.
1 Cor 11:10 – That is why a wife ought to have a symbol of authority on her head, because of the angels.
1 Cor 11:13 – Judge for yourselves: is it proper for a wife to pray to God with her head uncovered?
Wedding garments
Mt 22:11 – “But when the king came in to look at the guests, he saw there a man who had no wedding garment.
Mt 22:12 – And he said to him, ‘Friend, how did you get in here without a wedding garment?’ And he was speechless.
Marriage laws
Levirate marriage
Gen 38:8 – Then Judah said to Onan, “Go in to your brother’s wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her, and raise up offspring for your brother.”
Gen 38:9 – But Onan knew that the offspring would not be his. So whenever he went in to his brother’s wife he would waste the semen on the ground, so as not to give offspring to his brother.
Gen 38:10 – And what he did was wicked in the sight of the LORD, and he put him to death also.
Gen 38:11 – Then Judah said to Tamar his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, till Shelah my son grows up”–for he feared that he would die, like his brothers. So Tamar went and remained in her father’s house.
Gen 38:14 – she took off her widow’s garments and covered herself with a veil, wrapping herself up, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah. For she saw that Shelah was grown up, and she had not been given to him in marriage.
Deut 25:5 – “If brothers dwell together, and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not be married outside the family to a stranger. Her husband’s brother shall go in to her and take her as his wife and perform the duty of a husband’s brother to her.
Deut 25:6 – And the first son whom she bears shall succeed to the name of his dead brother, that his name may not be blotted out of Israel.
Deut 25:7 – And if the man does not wish to take his brother’s wife, then his brother’s wife shall go up to the gate to the elders and say, ‘My husband’s brother refuses to perpetuate his brother’s name in Israel; he will not perform the duty of a husband’s brother to me.’
Ruth 1:12 – Turn back, my daughters; go your way, for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say I have hope, even if I should have a husband this night and should bear sons,
Ruth 1:13 – would you therefore wait till they were grown? Would you therefore refrain from marrying? No, my daughters, for it is exceedingly bitter to me for your sake that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”
Ruth 4:5 – Then Boaz said, “The day you buy the field from the hand of Naomi, you also acquire Ruth the Moabite, the widow of the dead, in order to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance.”
Ruth 4:6 – Then the redeemer said, “I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I impair my own inheritance. Take my right of redemption yourself, for I cannot redeem it.”
Ruth 4:10 – Also Ruth the Moabite, the widow of Mahlon, I have bought to be my wife, to perpetuate the name of the dead in his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his native place. You are witnesses this day.”
Mt 22:24 – saying, “Teacher, Moses said, ‘If a man dies having no children, his brother must marry the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.’
Mt 22:25 – Now there were seven brothers among us. The first married and died, and having no children left his wife to his brother.
Mk 12:19 – “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies and leaves a wife, but leaves no child, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
Mk 12:20 – There were seven brothers; the first took a wife, and when he died left no offspring.
Lk 20:28 – and they asked him a question, saying, “Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a man’s brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the widow and raise up offspring for his brother.
Punishments
For sexual behavior outside of marriage
Deut 22:20 – But if the thing is true, that evidence of virginity was not found in the young woman,
Deut 22:21 – then they shall bring out the young woman to the door of her father’s house, and the men of her city shall stone her to death with stones, because she has done an outrageous thing in Israel by whoring in her father’s house. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Deut 22:22 – If a man is found lying with the wife of another man, both of them shall die, the man who lay with the woman, and the woman. So you shall purge the evil from Israel.
Deut 22:23 – “If there is a betrothed virgin, and a man meets her in the city and lies with her,
Deut 22:24 – then you shall bring them both out to the gate of that city, and you shall stone them to death with stones, the young woman because she did not cry for help though she was in the city, and the man because he violated his neighbor’s wife. So you shall purge the evil from your midst.
Deut 22:25 – “But if in the open country a man meets a young woman who is betrothed, and the man seizes her and lies with her, then only the man who lay with her shall die.
Lev 20:10 – “If a man commits adultery with the wife of his neighbor, both the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.
Lev 20:11 – If a man lies with his father’s wife, he has uncovered his father’s nakedness; both of them shall surely be put to death; their blood is upon them.
Lev 20:20 – If a man lies with his uncle’s wife, he has uncovered his uncle’s nakedness; they shall bear their sin; they shall die childless.
Lev 20:21 – If a man takes his brother’s wife, it is impurity. He has uncovered his brother’s nakedness; they shall be childless.
For trying to divorce a hated wife using false accusation of impurity
Deut 22:19 – and they shall fine him a hundred shekels of silver and give them to the father of the young woman, because he has brought a bad name upon a virgin of Israel. And she shall be his wife. He may not divorce her all his days.
Wife bound by law to her husband as long as he lives
Rom 7:2 – Thus a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage.
Rom 7:3 – Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress.
1 Cor 7:39 – A wife is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to be married to whom she wishes, only in the Lord.
Inheritance to go to tribe of wife’s husband
Num 36:3 – But if they are married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the people of Israel, then their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of our fathers and added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry. So it will be taken away from the lot of our inheritance.
Num 36:4 – And when the jubilee of the people of Israel comes, then their inheritance will be added to the inheritance of the tribe into which they marry, and their inheritance will be taken from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.”
Marrying within the clan
Num 36:6 – This is what the LORD commands concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, ‘Let them marry whom they think best, only they shall marry within the clan of the tribe of their father.
Opinions about marriage
Better not to marry
Mt 19:10 – The disciples said to him, “If such is the case of a man with his wife, it is better not to marry.”
1 Cor 7:8 – To the unmarried and the widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am.
1 Cor 7:27 – Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
1 Cor 7:38 – So then he who marries his betrothed does well, and he who refrains from marriage will do even better.
1 Cor 7:40 – Yet in my judgment she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
To be spared of worldly troubles
1 Cor 7:28 But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.
1 Cor 7:32 – I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.
1 Cor 7:33 – But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife
1 Cor 7:34 – and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.
Interests divided away from things of the Lord
1 Cor 7:32 – I want you to be free from anxieties. The unmarried man is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to please the Lord.
1 Cor 7:33 – But the married man is anxious about worldly things, how to please his wife,
1 Cor 7:34 – and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.
To promote good order and secure undivided devotion to the Lord
1 Cor 7:35 – I say this for your own benefit, not to lay any restraint upon you, but to promote good order and to secure your undivided devotion to the Lord.
Unbelieving spouses
1 Cor 7:12 – To the rest I say (I, not the Lord) that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever, and she consents to live with him, he should not divorce her.
1 Cor 7:14 – For the unbelieving husband is made holy because of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is made holy because of her husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, but as it is, they are holy.
1 Cor 7:15 – But if the unbelieving partner separates, let it be so. In such cases the brother or sister is not enslaved. God has called you to peace.
1 Cor 7:16 – Wife, how do you know whether you will save your husband? Husband, how do you know whether you will save your wife?
Not a sin to marry
1 Cor 7:28 – But if you do marry, you have not sinned, and if a betrothed woman marries, she has not sinned. Yet those who marry will have worldly troubles, and I would spare you that.
1 Cor 7:36 – If anyone thinks that he is not behaving properly toward his betrothed, if his passions are strong, and it has to be, let him do as he wishes: let them marry–it is no sin.
Better to remain in your current status
1 Cor 7:27 – Are you bound to a wife? Do not seek to be free. Are you free from a wife? Do not seek a wife.
Gen 15:6 – And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Ex 23:7 – Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
1 Kgs 8:32 – then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
2 Chr 6:23 – then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
Ps 51:4 – Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
Mt 12:37 – for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
Rom 1:32 – Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Rom 3:30 – since God is one. He will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Rom 4:3 – For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness."
Rom 4:5 – And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Rom 8:30 – And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Rom 8:33 – Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
1 Cor 4:4 – I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
1 Cor 6:11 – And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Jesus
Lk 18:14 – I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
Men
Oneself
Job
Job 6:29 – Please turn; let no injustice be done. Turn now; my vindication is at stake.
Job 9:15 – Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
Job 9:20 – Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
Job 10:15 – If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction.
Job 12:4 – I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
Job 13:18 – Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
Job 27:5 – Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
Job 27:6 – I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
Job 32:1 – So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Job 32:2 – Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.
Job 34:5 – For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
Job 35:2 – "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'
Job 35:7 – If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
Job 40:8 – Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
Israelites
Isa 43:9 – All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true.
Isa 43:26 – Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
Isa 57:12 – I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, but they will not profit you.
Jer 3:11 – And the LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
Jer 50:7 – All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, 'We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.'
The lawyer
Lk 10:29 – But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
Pharisees
Lk 16:15 – And he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Judges
Deut 25:1 – "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
Isa 5:23 – who acquit the guilty for a bribe, and deprive the innocent of his right!
Jerusalem
Ezek 16:51 – Samaria has not committed half your sins. You have committed more abominations than they, and have made your sisters appear righteous by all the abominations that you have committed.
Ezek 16:52 – Bear your disgrace, you also, for you have intervened on behalf of your sisters. Because of your sins in which you acted more abominably than they, they are more in the right than you. So be ashamed, you also, and bear your disgrace, for you have made your sisters appear righteous.
The children of wisdom
Mt 11:19 – The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds."
Lk 7:35 – Yet wisdom is justified by all her children."
Those who turn many to righteousness
Dan 12:3 – And those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the sky above; and those who turn many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
Other individuals
Eliphaz
Job 4:17 – 'Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
Job 15:14 – What is man, that he can be pure? Or he who is born of a woman, that he can be righteous?
Job 22:3 – Is it any pleasure to the Almighty if you are in the right, or is it gain to him if you make your ways blameless?
Elihu
Job 33:12 – "Behold, in this you are not right. I will answer you, for God is greater than man.
Job 33:32 – If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
Job 35:7 – If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
Judah
Gen 38:26 – Then Judah identified them and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know her again.
Gen 44:16 – And Judah said, "What shall we say to my lord? What shall we speak? Or how can we clear ourselves? God has found out the guilt of your servants; behold, we are my lord's servants, both we and he also in whose hand the cup has been found."
Absalom
2 Sam 15:4 – Then Absalom would say, "Oh that I were judge in the land! Then every man with a dispute or cause might come to me, and I would give him justice."
Zophar
Job 11:2 – "Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be judged right?
Bildad
Job 25:4 – How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
Those who are justified
Justified by God
Individuals
Abram/Abraham
Gen 15:6 – And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Rom 4:2 – For if Abraham was justified by works, he has something to boast about, but not before God.
Rom 4:3 – For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness."
Rom 4:9 – Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 4:13 – For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom 4:22 – That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness."
Gal 3:6 – just as Abraham "believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"?
Jas 2:23 – and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"–and he was called a friend of God.
Noah
Gen 7:1 – Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
Job
Job 33:26 – then man prays to God, and he accepts him; he sees his face with a shout of joy, and he restores to man his righteousness.
David
Ps 4:1 – Answer me when I call, O God of my righteousness! You have given me relief when I was in distress. Be gracious to me and hear my prayer!
Phinehas
Ps 106:31 – And that was counted to him as righteousness from generation to generation forever.
Isaiah
Isa 50:8 – He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
Christ
Isa 53:11 – Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
Zechariah and Elizabeth
Lk 1:6 – And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
Rahab
Jas 2:25 – And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
Groups
Descendents of Israel
Isa 45:25 – In the LORD all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory."。
Gentiles
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Qualifications
Those who trust in Jesus/God
Rom 3:24 – and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Rom 3:30 – since God is one. He will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Rom 4:5 – And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Those who act by faith
Rom 2:13 – For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
Rom 3:30 – since God is one. He will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Sinners
Rom 4:5 – And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Rom 5:19 – For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.
Those who are chosen
Rom 8:30 – And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Rom 8:33 – Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
The afflicted and the destitute
Ps 82:3 – Give justice to the weak and the fatherless; maintain the right of the afflicted and the destitute.
Those who are humble
Lk 18:14 – I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."
Sanctuary
Dan 8:14 – And he said to me, "For 2,300 evenings and mornings. Then the sanctuary shall be restored to its rightful state."
Justified by the Holy Spirit
Christ
1 Tim 3:16 – Great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness: He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the Spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory.
Justified by men
God
Ezra 9:15 – O LORD the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this."
Neh 9:8 – You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.
Neh 9:33 – Yet you have been righteous in all that has come upon us, for you have dealt faithfully and we have acted wickedly.
Job 34:17 – Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
Ps 119:137 – Righteous are you, O LORD, and right are your rules.
Ps 129:4 – The LORD is righteous; he has cut the cords of the wicked.
Ps 145:17 – The LORD is righteous in all his ways and kind in all his works.
Isa 50:8 – He who vindicates me is near. Who will contend with me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
Jer 12:1 – Righteous are you, O LORD, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
Lam 1:18 – "The LORD is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and see my suffering; my young women and my young men have gone into captivity.
Dan 9:14 – Therefore the LORD has kept ready the calamity and has brought it upon us, for the LORD our God is righteous in all the works that he has done, and we have not obeyed his voice.
Zeph 3:5 – The LORD within her is righteous; he does no injustice; every morning he shows forth his justice; each dawn he does not fail; but the unjust knows no shame.
Zech 9:9 – Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! behold, your king is coming to you; righteous and having salvation is he, humble and mounted on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
Lk 7:29 – (When all the people heard this, and the tax collectors too, they declared God just, having been baptized with the baptism of John,
Jn 17:25 – O righteous Father, even though the world does not know you, I know you, and these know that you have sent me.
Acts 3:14 – But you denied the Holy and Righteous One, and asked for a murderer to be granted to you,
Acts 22:14 – And he said, 'The God of our fathers appointed you to know his will, to see the Righteous One and to hear a voice from his mouth;
Rom 3:4 – By no means! Let God be true though every one were a liar, as it is written, "That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged."
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
1 Jn 2:1 – My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
1 Jn 2:29 – If you know that he is righteous, you may be sure that everyone who practices righteousness has been born of him.
Men
Oneself
Job
Job 6:29 – Please turn; let no injustice be done. Turn now; my vindication is at stake.
Job 9:15 – Though I am in the right, I cannot answer him; I must appeal for mercy to my accuser.
Job 9:20 – Though I am in the right, my own mouth would condemn me; though I am blameless, he would prove me perverse.
Job 10:15 – If I am guilty, woe to me! If I am in the right, I cannot lift up my head, for I am filled with disgrace and look on my affliction.
Job 12:4 – I am a laughingstock to my friends; I, who called to God and he answered me, a just and blameless man, am a laughingstock.
Job 13:18 – Behold, I have prepared my case; I know that I shall be in the right.
Job 27:5 – Far be it from me to say that you are right; till I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
Job 27:6 – I hold fast my righteousness and will not let it go; my heart does not reproach me for any of my days.
Job 32:1 – So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.
Job 32:2 – Then Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram, burned with anger. He burned with anger at Job because he justified himself rather than God.
Job 34:5 – For Job has said, 'I am in the right, and God has taken away my right;
Job 35:2 – "Do you think this to be just? Do you say, 'It is my right before God,'
Job 35:7 – If you are righteous, what do you give to him? Or what does he receive from your hand?
Job 40:8 – Will you even put me in the wrong? Will you condemn me that you may be in the right?
Isralites
Isa 43:9 – All the nations gather together, and the peoples assemble. Who among them can declare this, and show us the former things? Let them bring their witnesses to prove them right, and let them hear and say, It is true.
Isa 43:26 – Put me in remembrance; let us argue together; set forth your case, that you may be proved right.
Isa 57:12 – I will declare your righteousness and your deeds, but they will not profit you.
Jer 3:11 – And the LORD said to me, "Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.
Jer 50:7 – All who found them have devoured them, and their enemies have said, 'We are not guilty, for they have sinned against the LORD, their habitation of righteousness, the LORD, the hope of their fathers.'
Lawyer
Lk 10:29 – But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?"
Pharisees
Lk 16:15 – And he said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
The righteous
Deut 25:1 – "If there is a dispute between men and they come into court and the judges decide between them, acquitting the innocent and condemning the guilty,
1 Kgs 8:32 – then hear in heaven and act and judge your servants, condemning the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
2 Chr 6:23 – then hear from heaven and act and judge your servants, repaying the guilty by bringing his conduct on his own head, and vindicating the righteous by rewarding him according to his righteousness.
The wicked
Prov 17:15 – He who justifies the wicked and he who condemns the righteous are both alike an abomination to the LORD.
Other individuals
Tamar
Gen 38:26 – Then Judah identified them and said, "She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah." And he did not know her again.
Wisdom
Mt 11:19 – The Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, 'Look at him! A glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax collectors and sinners!' Yet wisdom is justified by her deeds."
Lk 7:35 – Yet wisdom is justified by all her children."
State of men before justification by God (See <topic id=”489” startswith=”Reasons for condemnation” nth=”1”>“Condemnation” in the New Testament > Reasons for condemnation</topic>）
Impossible to be righteous
Job 4:17 – 'Can mortal man be in the right before God? Can a man be pure before his Maker?
Job 9:2 – "Truly I know that it is so: But how can a man be in the right before God?
Job 11:2 – "Should a multitude of words go unanswered, and a man full of talk be judged right?
Job 25:4 – How then can man be in the right before God? How can he who is born of woman be pure?
Job 33:32 – If you have any words, answer me; speak, for I desire to justify you.
Ps 51:4 – Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified in your words and blameless in your judgment.
Rom 3:20 – For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
1 Cor 4:4 – I am not aware of anything against myself, but I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me.
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 3:11 – Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."
As the slaves of sin
Rom 6:19 – I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
Rom 6:20 – When you were slaves of sin, you were free in regard to righteousness.
Living in hypocrisy
Ex 23:7 – Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
Violent
Ex 23:7 – Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
Persecuting the righteous
Ex 23:7 – Keep far from a false charge, and do not kill the innocent and righteous, for I will not acquit the wicked.
Unable to lead to righteousness
Rom 9:31 – but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.
Unsubmissive to God’s righteousness
Rom 10:3 – For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness.
Reasons men are justified by God
By faith
Gen 15:6 – And he believed the LORD, and he counted it to him as righteousness.
Acts 13:39 – from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Rom 3:28 – For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Rom 3:30 – since God is one. He will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith.
Rom 4:3 – For what does the Scripture say? "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness."
Rom 4:5 – And to the one who does not work but trusts him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is counted as righteousness,
Rom 4:9 – Is this blessing then only for the circumcised, or also for the uncircumcised? We say that faith was counted to Abraham as righteousness.
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 4:13 – For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom 4:22 – That is why his faith was "counted to him as righteousness."
Rom 5:1 – Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 10:10 – For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 3:8 – And the Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand to Abraham, saying, "In you shall all the nations be blessed."
Gal 3:11 – Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."
Gal 3:24 – So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
Heb 11:4 – By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
Jas 2:23 – and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"–and he was called a friend of God.
By the redemption of Christ
Isa 53:11 – Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
Acts 13:39 – from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
Rom 3:24 – and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Rom 3:25 – whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Rom 4:25 – who was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification.
Rom 5:9 – Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Rom 5:17 – If, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
Rom 5:18 – Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
Rom 5:19 – For as by the one man's disobedience the many were made sinners, so by the one man's obedience the many will be made righteous.
Rom 5:21 – so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 8:10 – But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
2 Cor 5:21 – For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 3:24 – So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
1 Pet 2:24 – He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
1 Pet 3:18 – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
Not by observing the law
Deut 9:5 – Not because of your righteousness or the uprightness of your heart are you going in to possess their land, but because of the wickedness of these nations the LORD your God is driving them out from before you, and that he may confirm the word that the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.
Rom 3:20 – For by works of the law no human being will be justified in his sight, since through the law comes knowledge of sin.
Rom 3:21 – But now the righteousness of God has been manifested apart from the law, although the Law and the Prophets bear witness to it–
Rom 3:28 – For we hold that one is justified by faith apart from works of the law.
Rom 4:13 – For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.
Rom 9:31 – but that Israel who pursued a law that would lead to righteousness did not succeed in reaching that law.
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 2:21 – I do not nullify the grace of God, for if justification were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
Gal 3:11 – Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."
Gal 3:21 – Is the law then contrary to the promises of God? Certainly not! For if a law had been given that could give life, then righteousness would indeed be by the law.
Gal 5:4 – You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
Phil 3:9 – and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith–
Tit 3:5 – he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
By the deeds done through faith
Lk 1:6 – And they were both righteous before God, walking blamelessly in all the commandments and statutes of the Lord.
Rom 2:13 – For it is not the hearers of the law who are righteous before God, but the doers of the law who will be justified.
Rom 2:26 – So, if a man who is uncircumcised keeps the precepts of the law, will not his uncircumcision be regarded as circumcision?
Rom 4:11 – He received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was to make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well,
Rom 10:5 – For Moses writes about the righteousness that is based on the law, that the person who does the commandments shall live by them.
Heb 11:4 – By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks.
Heb 11:7 – By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Heb 11:33 – who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Jas 2:21 – Was not Abraham our father justified by works when he offered up his son Isaac on the altar?
Jas 2:24 – You see that a person is justified by works and not by faith alone.
Jas 2:25 – And in the same way was not also Rahab the prostitute justified by works when she received the messengers and sent them out by another way?
By God’s grace
Rom 3:24 – and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Rom 3:25 – whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Rom 4:6 – just as David also speaks of the blessing of the one to whom God counts righteousness apart from works:
Rom 5:16 – And the free gift is not like the result of that one man's sin. For the judgment following one trespass brought condemnation, but the free gift following many trespasses brought justification.
Gal 2:21 – I do not nullify the grace of God, for if justification were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
Tit 3:5 – he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
Tit 3:7 – so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
By God’s election
Rom 8:30 – And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Rom 8:33 – Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
How to be justified by God
Have faith in Jesus
Acts 13:39 – from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.
Rom 3:26 – It was to show his righteousness at the present time, so that he might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus.
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Receive baptism for the remission of sins
In the name of the Lord Jesus
1 Cor 6:11 – And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Washed by the Spirit of God
Isa 4:3 – And he who is left in Zion and remains in Jerusalem will be called holy, everyone who has been recorded for life in Jerusalem,
1 Cor 6:11 – And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
By the blood of Jesus
Rom 5:9 – Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
In Christ
2 Cor 5:21 – For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Face judgment on the last day
Mt 12:37 – for by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned."
Results of justification by God
Receive life
Gen 7:1 – Then the LORD said to Noah, "Go into the ark, you and all your household, for I have seen that you are righteous before me in this generation.
Hab 2:4 – "Behold, his soul is puffed up; it is not upright within him, but the righteous shall live by his faith.
Rom 1:17 – For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith for faith, as it is written, "The righteous shall live by faith."
Rom 5:18 – Therefore, as one trespass led to condemnation for all men, so one act of righteousness leads to justification and life for all men.
Rom 5:21 – so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 8:10 – But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Gal 3:11 – Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for "The righteous shall live by faith."
Tit 3:7 – so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Heb 10:38 – but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."
1 Pet 2:24 – He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Receive righteousness
Ps 24:5 – He will receive blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation.
Rom 9:30 – What shall we say, then? That Gentiles who did not pursue righteousness have attained it, that is, a righteousness that is by faith;
Rom 10:4 – For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
1 Cor 1:30 – He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
2 Cor 5:21 – For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Heb 11:7 – By faith Noah, being warned by God concerning events as yet unseen, in reverent fear constructed an ark for the saving of his household. By this he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness that comes by faith.
Be free from sin
Isa 53:11 – Out of the anguish of his soul he shall see and be satisfied; by his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities.
Rom 3:25 – whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins.
Rom 6:7 – For one who has died has been set free from sin.
Rom 6:18 – and, having been set free from sin, have become slaves of righteousness.
2 Cor 5:21 – For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
1 Pet 2:24 – He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Have peace with God
Rom 5:1 – Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 5:9 – Since, therefore, we have now been justified by his blood, much more shall we be saved by him from the wrath of God.
Jas 2:23 – and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"–and he was called a friend of God.
Receive glory
Isa 45:25 – In the LORD all the offspring of Israel shall be justified and shall glory."
Rom 8:30 – And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.
Be sanctified
Rom 6:19 – I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
1 Cor 6:11 – And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Be with God
Jas 2:23 – and the Scripture was fulfilled that says, "Abraham believed God, and it was counted to him as righteousness"–and he was called a friend of God.
1 Pet 3:18 – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
Be heir of the world
Rom 4:13 – For the promise to Abraham and his offspring that he would be heir of the world did not come through the law but through the righteousness of faith.。
Be free from any charge
Rom 8:33 – Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies.
Receive authority and power
2 Cor 6:7 – by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;
Become heirs
Tit 3:7 – so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Obtain promises
Heb 11:33 – who through faith conquered kingdoms, enforced justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Obtain faith
2 Pet 1:1 – Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
Actions after being justified by God
Be renewed by the Holy Spirit
Rom 6:16 – Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness?
Rom 8:4 – in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Rom 8:10 – But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Gal 5:5 – For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness.
Tit 3:5 – he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,
Sin no more
2 Cor 6:14 – Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Gal 2:17 – But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!
1 Jn 2:1 – My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
1 Jn 3:7 – Little children, let no one deceive you. Whoever practices righteousness is righteous, as he is righteous.
Present members to God
Rom 6:13 – Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness.
Rom 6:19 – I am speaking in human terms, because of your natural limitations. For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and to lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.
Minister to God
2 Cor 3:9 – For if there was glory in the ministry of condemnation, the ministry of righteousness must far exceed it in glory.
2 Cor 6:7 – by truthful speech, and the power of God; with the weapons of righteousness for the right hand and for the left;
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<topic id=“455” startswith=“” nth=“”>“Judgment” in the Old testament</topic>
<topic id=“488” startswith=“” nth=“”>“Judgment” in the New testament</topic>
<topic id=“496” startswith=“” nth=“”>“Discernment” in the New Testament</topic>
<topic id=“489” startswith=“” nth=“”>“Condemnation” in the New Testament</topic>
“Messiah” is a transliteration of the Hebrew word that means “anointed,” or “anointed one.”
The Greek equivalent is “Christ,” although in the New Testament the word has become a unique designation for Jesus (i.e. “The Anointed One”).
Who are called “the anointed”
Saul
1 Sam 12:3 – Here I am; testify against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you."
1 Sam 12:5 – And he said to them, "The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand." And they said, "He is witness."
1 Sam 24:6 – He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD's anointed."
1 Sam 24:10 – Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, 'I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD's anointed.'
1 Sam 26:9 – But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?"
1 Sam 26:11 – The LORD forbid that I should put out my hand against the LORD's anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go."
1 Sam 26:16 – This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was at his head."
1 Sam 26:23 – The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the LORD gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the LORD's anointed.
2 Sam 1:14 – David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?"
2 Sam 1:16 – And David said to him, "Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed the LORD's anointed.'"
David’s offspring
Ps 18:50 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
Ps 89:38 – But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed.
Ps 89:51 – with which your enemies mock, O LORD, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.
Ps 132:10 – For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your anointed one.
Ps 132:17 – There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.
Cf. Ps 132:11-12
Priest
Lev 4:3 – if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering.
Lev 4:5 – And the anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it into the tent of meeting,
Lev 4:16 – Then the anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull into the tent of meeting,
Lev 6:22 – The priest from among Aaron's sons, who is anointed to succeed him, shall offer it to the LORD as decreed forever. The whole of it shall be burned.
King
1 Sam 2:10 – The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the power of his anointed."
1 Sam 16:6 – When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD's anointed is before him."
Ps 2:2 – The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his anointed, saying,
Cf. Ps 2:6
Ps 18:50 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
David
2 Sam 19:21 – Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?"
2 Sam 22:51 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever."
2 Sam 23:1 – Now these are the last words of David: The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:
Ps 18:50 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
Chosen people
1 Chr 16:22 – saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"
Ps 105:15 – saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"
Hab 3:13 – You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah [footnote text=“"The anointed" here could also be a reference to the king.”]
Cyrus
Isa 45:1 – Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:
Shield
2 Sam 1:21 – "You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor fields of offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
God’s anointed
1 Sam 2:10 – The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the power of his anointed."
1 Sam 2:35 – And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever.
1 Sam 12:3 – Here I am; testify against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you."
1 Sam 12:5 – And he said to them, "The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand." And they said, "He is witness."
1 Sam 16:6 – When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD's anointed is before him."
1 Sam 24:6 – He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD's anointed."
1 Sam 24:10 – Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, 'I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD's anointed.'
1 Sam 26:9 – But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?"
1 Sam 26:11 – The LORD forbid that I should put out my hand against the LORD's anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go."
1 Sam 26:16 – This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was at his head."
1 Sam 26:23 – The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the LORD gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the LORD's anointed.
2 Sam 1:14 – David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?"
2 Sam 1:16 – And David said to him, "Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed the LORD's anointed.'"
2 Sam 19:21 – Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?"
2 Sam 22:51 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever."
2 Sam 23:1 – Now these are the last words of David: The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:
1 Chr 16:22 – saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"
2 Chr 6:42 – O LORD God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember your steadfast love for David your servant."
Ps 2:2 – The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his anointed, saying,
Ps 18:50 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
Ps 20:6 – Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand.
Ps 28:8 – The LORD is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
Ps 84:9 – Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed!
Ps 89:38 – But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed.
Ps 89:51 – with which your enemies mock, O LORD, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.
Ps 105:15 – saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"
Ps 132:10 – For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your anointed one.
Ps 132:17 – There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.
Isa 45:1 – Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:
Lam 4:20 – The breath of our nostrils, the LORD's anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the nations."
Hab 3:13 – You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah
Finding the Messiah
Jn 1:41 – He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means Christ).
What the Messiah will do
Jn 4:25 – The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things."
Words related grammatically to “anointed” (מָשִׁיחַ)
Subjects of "Anointed" (מָשִׁיחַ)
He, הוּא
1 Sam 24:6 – He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD's anointed."
1 Sam 24:10 – Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, 'I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD's anointed.'
Verbs with "Anointed" (מָשִׁיחַ) as Subject
Cut, כָּרַת
Dan 9:26 – And after the sixty-two weeks, an anointed one shall be cut off and shall have nothing. And the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary. Its end shall come with a flood, and to the end there shall be war. Desolations are decreed.
Verbs with "Anointed" (מָשִׁיחַ) as Object
Destroy, שָׁחַת
2 Sam 1:14 – David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?"
Die, מוּת
2 Sam 1:16 – And David said to him, "Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed the LORD's anointed.'"
Be slight, קָלַל
2 Sam 19:21 – Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?"
Help, יָשַׁע
Ps 20:6 – Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand.
Verbs with "Anointed" (מָשִׁיחַ) as Indirect Object
Do, עָשָׂה
1 Sam 24:6 – He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD's anointed."
2 Sam 22:51 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever."
Ps 18:50 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
Send, שָׁלַח
1 Sam 26:9 – But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?"
1 Sam 26:11 – The LORD forbid that I should put out my hand against the LORD's anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go."
1 Sam 26:23 – The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the LORD gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the LORD's anointed.
Touch, נָגַע
1 Chr 16:22 – saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"
Ps 105:15 – saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"
Keep, שָׁמַר
1 Sam 26:16 – This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was at his head."
Found, יָסַד
Ps 2:2 – The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his anointed, saying,
Pass over, עָבַר
Ps 89:38 – But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed.
Arrange in order, עָרַךְ
Ps 132:17 – There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.
Say, אָמַר
Isa 45:1 – Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:
Predicate Complements of "Anointed" (מָשִׁיחַ)
Witness, עֵד
1 Sam 12:5 – And he said to them, "The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand." And they said, "He is witness."
Counterpart, נֶגֶד
1 Sam 16:6 – When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD's anointed is before him."
Appositions with "Anointed" (מָשִׁיחַ)
Chief, נָגִיד
Dan 9:25 – Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.
Prepositions with "Anointed" (מָשִׁיחַ)
To, for, לְ
1 Sam 24:6 – He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD's anointed."
2 Sam 22:51 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever."
Ps 18:50 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
Ps 132:17 – There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.
Isa 45:1 – Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:
In, among, בְּ
1 Sam 26:9 – But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?"
1 Sam 26:11 – The LORD forbid that I should put out my hand against the LORD's anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go."
1 Sam 26:23 – The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the LORD gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the LORD's anointed.
1 Chr 16:22 – saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"
Ps 105:15 – saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"
Above, עַל
1 Sam 26:16 – This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was at his head."
Ps 2:2 – The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his anointed, saying,
Counterpart, נֶגֶד
1 Sam 12:3 – Here I am; testify against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you."
Destruction, בְּלִי
2 Sam 1:21 – "You mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain upon you, nor fields of offerings! For there the shield of the mighty was defiled, the shield of Saul, not anointed with oil.
With, עִם
Ps 89:38 – But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed.
Unto, עַד
Dan 9:25 – Know therefore and understand that from the going out of the word to restore and build Jerusalem to the coming of an anointed one, a prince, there shall be seven weeks. Then for sixty-two weeks it shall be built again with squares and moat, but in a troubled time.
[object marker], אֵת
Hab 3:13 – You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah
… of "Anointed" (מָשִׁיחַ)
Face, לִפְנֵי
1 Sam 2:35 – And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever.
2 Chr 6:42 – O LORD God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember your steadfast love for David your servant."
Ps 84:9 – Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed!
Ps 132:10 – For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your anointed one.
Horn, קֶרֶן
1 Sam 2:10 – The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the power of his anointed."
Salvation, יְשׁוּעָה
Ps 28:8 – The LORD is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
Heel, עָקֵב
Ps 89:51 – with which your enemies mock, O LORD, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.
"Anointed" (מָשִׁיחַ) of …
Him
1 Sam 2:10 – The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; against them he will thunder in heaven. The LORD will judge the ends of the earth; he will give strength to his king and exalt the power of his anointed."
1 Sam 12:3 – Here I am; testify against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you."
1 Sam 12:5 – And he said to them, "The LORD is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that you have not found anything in my hand." And they said, "He is witness."
1 Sam 16:6 – When they came, he looked on Eliab and thought, "Surely the LORD's anointed is before him."
2 Sam 22:51 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever."
Ps 2:2 – The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his anointed, saying,
Ps 18:50 – Great salvation he brings to his king, and shows steadfast love to his anointed, to David and his offspring forever.
Ps 20:6 – Now I know that the LORD saves his anointed; he will answer him from his holy heaven with the saving might of his right hand.
Ps 28:8 – The LORD is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.
Isa 45:1 – Thus says the LORD to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have grasped, to subdue nations before him and to loose the belts of kings, to open doors before him that gates may not be closed:
YHWH, יהוה
1 Sam 24:10 – Behold, this day your eyes have seen how the LORD gave you today into my hand in the cave. And some told me to kill you, but I spared you. I said, 'I will not put out my hand against my lord, for he is the LORD's anointed.'
1 Sam 26:9 – But David said to Abishai, "Do not destroy him, for who can put out his hand against the LORD's anointed and be guiltless?"
1 Sam 26:11 – The LORD forbid that I should put out my hand against the LORD's anointed. But take now the spear that is at his head and the jar of water, and let us go."
1 Sam 26:16 – This thing that you have done is not good. As the LORD lives, you deserve to die, because you have not kept watch over your lord, the LORD's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is and the jar of water that was at his head."
1 Sam 26:23 – The LORD rewards every man for his righteousness and his faithfulness, for the LORD gave you into my hand today, and I would not put out my hand against the LORD's anointed.
2 Sam 1:14 – David said to him, "How is it you were not afraid to put out your hand to destroy the LORD's anointed?"
2 Sam 1:16 – And David said to him, "Your blood be on your head, for your own mouth has testified against you, saying, 'I have killed the LORD's anointed.'"
2 Sam 19:21 – Abishai the son of Zeruiah answered, "Shall not Shimei be put to death for this, because he cursed the LORD's anointed?"
Lam 4:20 – The breath of our nostrils, the LORD's anointed, was captured in their pits, of whom we said, "Under his shadow we shall live among the nations."
You
2 Chr 6:42 – O LORD God, do not turn away the face of your anointed one! Remember your steadfast love for David your servant."
Ps 84:9 – Behold our shield, O God; look on the face of your anointed!
Ps 89:38 – But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed.
Ps 89:51 – with which your enemies mock, O LORD, with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.
Ps 132:10 – For the sake of your servant David, do not turn away the face of your anointed one.
Hab 3:13 – You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed. You crushed the head of the house of the wicked, laying him bare from thigh to neck. Selah
I
1 Sam 2:35 – And I will raise up for myself a faithful priest, who shall do according to what is in my heart and in my mind. And I will build him a sure house, and he shall go in and out before my anointed forever.
1 Chr 16:22 – saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"
Ps 105:15 – saying, "Touch not my anointed ones, do my prophets no harm!"
Ps 132:17 – There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepared a lamp for my anointed.
YHWH, יהוה
1 Sam 24:6 – He said to his men, "The LORD forbid that I should do this thing to my lord, the LORD's anointed, to put out my hand against him, seeing he is the LORD's anointed."
God/god(s), אֱלֹהִים
2 Sam 23:1 – Now these are the last words of David: The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:
… and "Anointed" (מָשִׁיחַ)
YHWH, יהוה
1 Sam 12:3 – Here I am; testify against me before the LORD and before his anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose donkey have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I taken a bribe to blind my eyes with it? Testify against me and I will restore it to you."
Ps 2:2 – The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against his anointed, saying,
"Anointed" (מָשִׁיחַ) and …
Pleasant, נָעִים
2 Sam 23:1 – Now these are the last words of David: The oracle of David, the son of Jesse, the oracle of the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, the sweet psalmist of Israel:
"Anointed" (מָשִׁיחַ) as Adjunct of …
Priest, כֹּהֵן
Lev 4:3 – if it is the anointed priest who sins, thus bringing guilt on the people, then he shall offer for the sin that he has committed a bull from the herd without blemish to the LORD for a sin offering.
Lev 4:5 – And the anointed priest shall take some of the blood of the bull and bring it into the tent of meeting,
Lev 4:16 – Then the anointed priest shall bring some of the blood of the bull into the tent of meeting,
Jn 1:41 – He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means Christ).
Jn 4:25 – The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things."
“Messiah” is the transliteration of the Hebrew word meaning “anointed.”
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“Christ” is the transliteration of the Greek word meaning “anointed.” In the New Testament, the word has become a unique designation for Jesus.
Christ is called
Jesus
Acts 3:20 – that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
Acts 17:3 – explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."
Acts 24:24 – After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.
Rom 1:1 – Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Rom 3:24 – and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Rom 6:3 – Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:11 – So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Rom 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom 8:1 – There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Rom 8:2 – For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:34 – Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died–more than that, who was raised–who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Rom 8:39 – nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom 15:5 – May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
Rom 15:16 – to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Rom 15:17 – In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.
Rom 16:3 – Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
1 Cor 1:1 – Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
1 Cor 1:4 – I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
1 Cor 1:30 – He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
1 Cor 4:15 – For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
1 Cor 4:17 – That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
1 Cor 15:31 – I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
1 Cor 16:24 – My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
2 Cor 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2 Cor 1:19 – For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes.
2 Cor 4:5 – For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
Gal 2:4 – Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in–who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery–
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 3:26 – for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
Gal 3:28 – There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal 4:14 – and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
Gal 5:6 – For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
Gal 5:24 – And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Eph 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
Eph 2:6 – and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Eph 2:7 – so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Eph 2:10 – For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Eph 2:13 – But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Eph 2:20 – built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
Eph 3:1 – For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles–
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Eph 3:11 – This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,
Eph 3:21 – to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Phil 1:1 – Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:
Phil 1:6 – And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Phil 1:8 – For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.
Phil 1:26 – so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus, because of my coming to you again.
Phil 2:5 – Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
Phil 2:21 – They all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
Phil 3:3 – For we are the real circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh–
Phil 3:8 – Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
Phil 3:12 – Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
Phil 3:14 – I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Phil 4:7 – And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Phil 4:19 – And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Phil 4:21 – Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.
Col 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Col 1:4 – since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,
Col 2:6 – Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,
Col 4:12 – Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
1 Thess 2:14 – For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
1 Thess 5:18 – give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
1 Tim 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
1 Tim 1:2 – To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Tim 1:12 – I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service,
1 Tim 1:14 – and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
1 Tim 1:15 – The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
1 Tim 2:5 – For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
1 Tim 3:13 – For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
1 Tim 4:6 – If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.
1 Tim 5:21 – In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.
1 Tim 6:13 – I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,
2 Tim 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,
2 Tim 1:2 – To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Tim 1:9 – who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
2 Tim 1:10 – and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
2 Tim 1:13 – Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
2 Tim 2:1 – You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,
2 Tim 2:3 – Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Tim 2:10 – Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
2 Tim 3:12 – Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
2 Tim 3:15 – and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
2 Tim 4:1 – I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
Tit 1:4 – To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
Tit 2:13 – waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
Phm 1:1 – Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
Phm 1:9 – yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you–I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus–
Phm 1:23 – Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
The Son of God
Mt 16:16 – Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Mt 26:63 – But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."
Mk 1:1 – The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Jn 11:27 – She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world."
Jn 20:31 – but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
2 Cor 1:19 – For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes.
1 Jn 5:20 – And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
Lord
Lk 2:11 – For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Rom 14:9 – For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
1 Tim 1:2 – To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Tim 1:12 – I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service,
1 Pet 3:15 – but in your hearts regard Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you;
Son of David
Mt 22:42 – saying, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "The son of David."
Mk 12:35 – And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
Lk 20:41 – But he said to them, "How can they say that the Christ is David's son?
Savior
Lk 2:11 – For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
2 Tim 1:10 – and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
Tit 1:4 – To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
Instructor
Mt 23:10 – Neither be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Christ.
Son of the Blessed
Mk 14:61 – But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"
King of Israel
Mk 15:32 – Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.
King
Lk 23:2 – And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
God’s chosen one
Lk 23:35 – And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!"
Who is coming into the world
Jn 11:27 – She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world."
Son of Man
Jn 12:34 – So the crowd answered him, "We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"
God
Rom 9:5 – To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
End of the law
Rom 10:4 – For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
Servant to the circumcised
Rom 15:8 – For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,
Power of God and wisdom of God
1 Cor 1:24 – but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Our Passover lamb
1 Cor 5:7 – Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
Spiritual rock
1 Cor 10:4 – and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
Firstfruits
1 Cor 15:23 – But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
Hope of glory
Col 1:27 – To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
God’s mystery
Col 2:2 – that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,
Your life
Col 3:4 – When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Mediator
1 Tim 2:5 – For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
Who is Christ
Jesus
Mt 1:16 – and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
Mt 16:16 – Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Mt 16:20 – Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.
Mt 27:17 – So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?"
Mk 8:29 – And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Christ."
Lk 4:41 – And demons also came out of many, crying, "You are the Son of God!" But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
Lk 9:20 – Then he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" And Peter answered, "The Christ of God."
Jn 20:31 – but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Acts 3:20 – that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
Acts 5:42 – And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.
Acts 9:22 – But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ.
Acts 17:3 – explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."
Acts 18:5 – When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.
Acts 18:28 – for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.
1 Jn 2:22 – Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
1 Jn 5:1 – Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
Abraham’s offspring
Gal 3:16 – Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ.
The head
Eph 4:15 – Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ,
Christ as apposition to
Jesus
Mt 1:1 – The book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
Mt 1:18 – Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.
Mk 1:1 – The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.
Jn 1:17 – For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
Jn 17:3 – And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent.
Acts 2:38 – And Peter said to them, "Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Acts 8:12 – But when they believed Philip as he preached good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.
Acts 9:34 – And Peter said to him, "Aeneas, Jesus Christ heals you; rise and make your bed." And immediately he rose.
Acts 10:36 – As for the word that he sent to Israel, preaching good news of peace through Jesus Christ (he is Lord of all),
Acts 10:48 – And he commanded them to be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ. Then they asked him to remain for some days.
Acts 16:18 – And this she kept doing for many days. Paul, having become greatly annoyed, turned and said to the spirit, "I command you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her." And it came out that very hour.
Rom 1:4 – and was declared to be the Son of God in power according to the Spirit of holiness by his resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord,
Rom 1:6 – including you who are called to belong to Jesus Christ,
Rom 1:8 – First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is proclaimed in all the world.
Rom 3:22 – the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ for all who believe. For there is no distinction:
Rom 5:15 – But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man's trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift by the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many.
Rom 5:17 – If, because of one man's trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.
Rom 5:21 – so that, as sin reigned in death, grace also might reign through righteousness leading to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Rom 7:25 – Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Rom 15:6 – that together you may with one voice glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Rom 15:30 – I appeal to you, brothers, by our Lord Jesus Christ and by the love of the Spirit, to strive together with me in your prayers to God on my behalf,
Rom 16:25 – Now to him who is able to strengthen you according to my gospel and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery that was kept secret for long ages
Rom 16:27 – to the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
1 Cor 1:7 – so that you are not lacking in any spiritual gift, as you wait for the revealing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Cor 1:10 – I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.
1 Cor 2:2 – For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified.
1 Cor 3:11 – For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
1 Cor 15:57 – But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Cor 1:19 – For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes.
2 Cor 4:5 – For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
2 Cor 13:5 – Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?–unless indeed you fail to meet the test!
Gal 1:1 – Paul, an apostle–not from men nor through man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead–
Gal 1:12 – For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 3:1 – O foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? It was before your eyes that Jesus Christ was publicly portrayed as crucified.
Gal 3:22 – But the Scripture imprisoned everything under sin, so that the promise by faith in Jesus Christ might be given to those who believe.
Eph 1:5 – he predestined us for adoption through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
Eph 1:17 – that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him,
Eph 5:20 – giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
Eph 6:24 – Grace be with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ with love incorruptible.
Phil 1:11 – filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
Phil 1:19 – for I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance,
Phil 2:21 – They all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
Col 1:3 – We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you,
1 Thess 1:3 – remembering before our God and Father your work of faith and labor of love and steadfastness of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thess 5:9 – For God has not destined us for wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,
1 Thess 5:23 – Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Thess 5:28 – The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
2 Thess 2:1 – Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to him, we ask you, brothers,
2 Thess 2:14 – To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thess 2:16 – Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,
2 Thess 3:6 – Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.
2 Thess 3:18 – The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all.
1 Tim 6:3 – If anyone teaches a different doctrine and does not agree with the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching that accords with godliness,
1 Tim 6:14 – to keep the commandment unstained and free from reproach until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ,
2 Tim 2:8 – Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,
Tit 1:1 – Paul, a servant of God and an apostle of Jesus Christ, for the sake of the faith of God's elect and their knowledge of the truth, which accords with godliness,
Tit 2:13 – waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
Tit 3:6 – whom he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior,
Heb 10:10 – And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.
Heb 13:8 – Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Heb 13:21 – equip you with everything good that you may do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
Jas 2:1 – My brothers, show no partiality as you hold the faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory.
1 Pet 1:1 – Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ, To those who are elect exiles of the dispersion in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, and Bithynia,
1 Pet 1:2 – according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the sanctification of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and for sprinkling with his blood:May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
1 Pet 1:3 – Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
1 Pet 1:7 – so that the tested genuineness of your faith–more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire–may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1 Pet 1:13 – Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
1 Pet 2:5 – you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
1 Pet 3:21 – Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
1 Pet 4:11 – whoever speaks, as one who speaks oracles of God; whoever serves, as one who serves by the strength that God supplies–in order that in everything God may be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belong glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
2 Pet 1:1 – Simeon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ,To those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours by the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ:
2 Pet 1:8 – For if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Pet 1:11 – For in this way there will be richly provided for you an entrance into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
2 Pet 1:14 – since I know that the putting off of my body will be soon, as our Lord Jesus Christ made clear to me.
2 Pet 1:16 – For we did not follow cleverly devised myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, but we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
2 Pet 2:20 – For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in them and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.
2 Pet 3:18 – But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.
1 Jn 1:3 – that which we have seen and heard we proclaim also to you, so that you too may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
1 Jn 2:1 – My little children, I am writing these things to you so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
1 Jn 3:23 – And this is his commandment, that we believe in the name of his Son Jesus Christ and love one another, just as he has commanded us.
1 Jn 4:2 – By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
1 Jn 5:6 – This is he who came by water and blood–Jesus Christ; not by the water only but by the water and the blood. And the Spirit is the one who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth.
1 Jn 5:20 – And we know that the Son of God has come and has given us understanding, so that we may know him who is true; and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
2 John 3
2 John 7
Jude 1:1 – Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James,To those who are called, beloved in God the Father and kept for Jesus Christ:
Jude 1:4 – For certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:17 – But you must remember, beloved, the predictions of the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Jude 1:21 – keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ that leads to eternal life.
Jude 1:25 – to the only God, our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion, and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
Rev 1:1 – The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,
Rev 1:2 – who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw.
Rev 1:5 – and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth.To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood
Lord
Rom 16:18 – For such persons do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites, and by smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the naive.
Col 3:24 – knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
1 Pet 3:15 – but in your hearts regard Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you;
Identity of Christ
Asked about
Mt 22:42 – saying, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "The son of David."
Mt 26:63 – But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."
Mk 14:61 – But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"
Lk 22:67 – "If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe,
Jn 4:29 – "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?"
Jn 7:26 – And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?
Jn 10:24 – So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
Confessed
Mt 16:16 – Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Mk 8:29 – And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Christ."
Lk 9:20 – Then he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" And Peter answered, "The Christ of God."
Jn 7:41 – Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee?
Jn 9:22 – (His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)
Jn 11:27 – She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world."
Disclaimed
Jn 1:20 – He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, "I am not the Christ."
Jn 1:25 – They asked him, "Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
Jn 3:28 – You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.'
Claimed
Mt 24:5 – For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will lead many astray.
Lk 23:2 – And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
Mocked
Mt 26:68 – saying, "Prophesy to us, you Christ! Who is it that struck you?"
Lk 23:39 – One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!"
Not to be revealed
Mt 16:20 – Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.
Believed
Jn 20:31 – but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Made
Acts 2:36 – Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."
Christ written about in the Old Testament
Lk 24:46 – and said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,
Jn 7:42 – Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
Jn 12:34 – So the crowd answered him, "We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"
Acts 4:25 – who through the mouth of our father David, your servant, said by the Holy Spirit, "'Why did the Gentiles rage, and the peoples plot in vain?
Acts 4:26 – The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed'–
Acts 17:2 – And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,
Acts 17:3 – explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."
Acts 18:28 – for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.
Acts 26:22 – To this day I have had the help that comes from God, and so I stand here testifying both to small and great, saying nothing but what the prophets and Moses said would come to pass:
Acts 26:23 – that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles."
1 Cor 10:4 – and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
1 Cor 10:9 – We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents,
Heb 5:5 – So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you";
Christ in the world
Expectations for the Christ
Lk 2:26 – And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Lk 3:15 – As the people were in expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Christ,
Jn 4:25 – The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things."
Birth of Christ
Mt 2:4 – and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.
Conceptions about the Christ
Where He comes from
Jn 7:27 – But we know where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, no one will know where he comes from."
Jn 7:41 – Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee?
Jn 7:42 – Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
Ability to do signs
Jn 7:31 – Yet many of the people believed in him. They said, "When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?"
Suffering of Christ
Lk 24:26 – Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?"
Lk 24:46 – and said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,
Acts 3:18 – But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.
Acts 17:3 – explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."
Acts 26:23 – that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles."
1 Pet 2:21 – For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
1 Pet 3:18 – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
1 Pet 4:1 – Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
1 Pet 4:13 – But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
1 Pet 5:1 – So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:
Death of Christ
Rom 5:6 – For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
Rom 5:8 – but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Rom 8:34 – Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died–more than that, who was raised–who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Rom 14:9 – For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Rom 14:15 – For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.
1 Cor 1:23 – but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
1 Cor 8:11 – And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.
1 Cor 15:3 – For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,
Gal 2:21 – I do not nullify the grace of God, for if justification were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
Resurrection of Christ
Acts 2:31 – he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
Acts 26:23 – that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles."
Rom 6:4 – We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Rom 6:9 – We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
Rom 8:34 – Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died–more than that, who was raised–who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Rom 14:9 – For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
1 Cor 15:13 – But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
1 Cor 15:14 – And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
1 Cor 15:15 – We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.
1 Cor 15:16 – For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised.
1 Cor 15:17 – And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
1 Cor 15:20 – But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Christ and the believer
Dying with Christ
Rom 6:8 – Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
Col 2:20 – If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations–
Being raised with Christ
Col 3:1 – If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
Heirs with Christ
Rom 8:17 – and if children, then heirs–heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Christ in the believer
Rom 8:10 – But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
Gal 2:20 – I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Christ’s
1 Cor 3:23 – and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
1 Cor 15:23 – But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
2 Cor 10:7 – Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.
Gal 3:29 – And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
Claims about Christ’s whereabouts
Mt 24:23 – Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' do not believe it.
Mk 13:21 – And then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'Look, there he is!' do not believe it.
Words related grammatically to “Christ” (Χριστός)
Subjects of "Christ" (Χριστός)
You, σύ
Mt 16:16 – Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Mt 26:63 – But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."
Mk 8:29 – And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Christ."
Mk 14:61 – But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"
Lk 22:67 – "If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe,
Lk 23:39 – One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!"
Jn 1:25 – They asked him, "Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
Jn 10:24 – So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
Jn 11:27 – She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world."
1 Cor 3:23 – and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Gal 3:29 – And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to promise.
This/he/she/it, οὗτος
Lk 23:35 – And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!"
Jn 4:29 – "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?"
Jn 7:26 – And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?
Jn 7:41 – Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee?
Acts 9:22 – But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ.
Acts 17:3 – explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."
He/she/it/self, αὐτός
Mt 16:20 – Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.
Lk 3:15 – As the people were in expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Christ,
Lk 4:41 – And demons also came out of many, crying, "You are the Son of God!" But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
2 Cor 10:7 – Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.
I/we, ἐγώ
Mt 24:5 – For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will lead many astray.
Jn 1:20 – He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, "I am not the Christ."
Jn 3:28 – You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.'
1 Cor 1:12 – What I mean is that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," or "I follow Apollos," or "I follow Cephas," or "I follow Christ."
Which, ὅς, ἥ
Lk 2:11 – For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Jn 1:41 – He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means Christ).
Gal 3:16 – Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ.
Jesus/Joshua, Ἰησοῦς
Jn 20:31 – but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
1 Jn 2:22 – Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
1 Jn 5:1 – Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
My/your/him-self, ἑαυτοῦ
Lk 23:2 – And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
Rock, πέτρα
1 Cor 10:4 – and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
And I, κἀγώ
1 Cor 11:1 – Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ.
To live, ζάω
Phil 1:21 – For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
Body, σῶμα
Col 2:17 – These are a shadow of the things to come, but the substance belongs to Christ.
Kingdom, βασιλεία
Rev 11:15 – Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."
Verbs with "Christ" (Χριστός) as Subject
To die, ἀποθνήσκω
Rom 5:6 – For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.
Rom 5:8 – but God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Rom 6:9 – We know that Christ being raised from the dead will never die again; death no longer has dominion over him.
Rom 14:9 – For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Rom 14:15 – For if your brother is grieved by what you eat, you are no longer walking in love. By what you eat, do not destroy the one for whom Christ died.
1 Cor 8:11 – And so by your knowledge this weak person is destroyed, the brother for whom Christ died.
1 Cor 15:3 – For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures,
Gal 2:21 – I do not nullify the grace of God, for if justification were through the law, then Christ died for no purpose.
To suffer, πάσχω
Lk 24:26 – Was it not necessary that the Christ should suffer these things and enter into his glory?"
Lk 24:46 – and said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead,
Acts 3:18 – But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.
Acts 17:3 – explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."
1 Pet 2:21 – For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
1 Pet 3:18 – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
1 Pet 4:1 – Since therefore Christ suffered in the flesh, arm yourselves with the same way of thinking, for whoever has suffered in the flesh has ceased from sin,
To be, εἰμί
Mk 12:35 – And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
Lk 20:41 – But he said to them, "How can they say that the Christ is David's son?
Acts 18:5 – When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.
Acts 18:28 – for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.
1 Cor 11:3 – But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
Eph 2:20 – built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
To arise, ἐγείρω
Rom 6:4 – We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
1 Cor 15:13 – But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ has been raised.
1 Cor 15:14 – And if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain.
1 Cor 15:16 – For if the dead are not raised, not even Christ has been raised.
1 Cor 15:17 – And if Christ has not been raised, your faith is futile and you are still in your sins.
1 Cor 15:20 – But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
To come/go, ἔρχομαι
Jn 7:41 – Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee?
Jn 7:42 – Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes from the offspring of David, and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David was?"
1 Tim 1:15 – The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
To enter, εἰσέρχομαι
Heb 9:11 – But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)
Heb 9:12 – he entered once for all into the holy places, not by means of the blood of goats and calves but by means of his own blood, thus securing an eternal redemption.
Heb 9:24 – For Christ has entered, not into holy places made with hands, which are copies of the true things, but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God on our behalf.
To live, ζάω
Rom 14:9 – For to this end Christ died and lived again, that he might be Lord both of the dead and of the living.
Gal 2:20 – I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
To love, ἀγαπάω
Eph 5:2 – And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Eph 5:25 – Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
To beget, γεννάω
Mt 2:4 – and assembling all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ was to be born.
To come/go down, καταβαίνω
Mk 15:32 – Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.
To stay, μένω
Jn 12:34 – So the crowd answered him, "We have heard from the Law that the Christ remains forever. How can you say that the Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?"
To please, ἀρέσκω
Rom 15:3 – For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."
To take, προσλαμβάνω
Rom 15:7 – Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
To be, γίνομαι
Rom 15:8 – For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,
To workout/produce, κατεργάζομαι
Rom 15:18 – For I will not venture to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me to bring the Gentiles to obedience–by word and deed,
To name, ὀνομάζω
Rom 15:20 – and thus I make it my ambition to preach the gospel, not where Christ has already been named, lest I build on someone else's foundation,
To divide, μερίζω
1 Cor 1:13 – Is Christ divided? Was Paul crucified for you? Or were you baptized in the name of Paul?
To send, ἀποστέλλω
1 Cor 1:17 – For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
To preach, κηρύσσω
1 Cor 15:12 – Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead, how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
To redeem, ἐξαγοράζω
Gal 3:13 – Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us–for it is written, "Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree"–
To form, μορφόω
Gal 4:19 – my little children, for whom I am again in the anguish of childbirth until Christ is formed in you!
To set free, ἐλευθερόω
Gal 5:1 – For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
To help, ὠφελέω
Gal 5:2 – Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you.
To dwell, κατοικέω
Eph 3:17 – so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith–that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
To shine on, ἐπιφαύσκω
Eph 5:14 – for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore it says, "Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."
To proclaim, καταγγέλλω
Phil 1:18 – What then? Only that in every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is proclaimed, and in that I rejoice. Yes, and I will rejoice,
To magnify, μεγαλύνω
Phil 1:20 – as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death.
To sit, κάθημαι
Col 3:1 – If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
To manifest, φανερόω
Col 3:4 – When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
To glorify, δοξάζω
Heb 5:5 – So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you";
To see, ὁράω
Heb 9:28 – so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
Verbs with "Christ" (Χριστός) as Object
To preach, κηρύσσω
Acts 8:5 – Philip went down to the city of Samaria and proclaimed to them the Christ.
1 Cor 1:23 – but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
Phil 1:15 – Some indeed preach Christ from envy and rivalry, but others from good will.
To know, εἴδω
Lk 2:26 – And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Lk 4:41 – And demons also came out of many, crying, "You are the Son of God!" But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
To arise, ἐγείρω
Rom 8:11 – If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
1 Cor 15:15 – We are even found to be misrepresenting God, because we testified about God that he raised Christ, whom he did not raise if it is true that the dead are not raised.
To speak, λέγω
Lk 23:2 – And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
To confess/profess, ὁμολογέω
Jn 9:22 – (His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)
To do/make, ποιέω
Acts 2:36 – Let all the house of Israel therefore know for certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom you crucified."
To send, ἀποστέλλω
Acts 3:20 – that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
To bring down, κατάγω
Rom 10:6 – But the righteousness based on faith says, "Do not say in your heart, 'Who will ascend into heaven?'" (that is, to bring Christ down)
To lead, ἀνάγω
Rom 10:7 – or "'Who will descend into the abyss?'" (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead).
Be a slave, δουλεύω
Rom 14:18 – Whoever thus serves Christ is acceptable to God and approved by men.
To test/tempt, ἐκπειράζω
1 Cor 10:9 – We must not put Christ to the test, as some of them did and were destroyed by serpents,
To know, γινώσκω
2 Cor 5:16 – From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer.
To persuade, πείθω
2 Cor 10:7 – Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.
To clothe, ἐνδύω
Gal 3:27 – For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
To learn, μανθάνω
Eph 4:20 – But that is not the way you learned Christ!–
To proclaim, καταγγέλλω
Phil 1:17 – The former proclaim Christ out of rivalry, not sincerely but thinking to afflict me in my imprisonment.
To gain, κερδαίνω
Phil 3:8 – Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
To take, παραλαμβάνω
Col 2:6 – Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,
Verbs with "Christ" (Χριστός) as Indirect Object
To stand by, παρίστημι
2 Cor 11:2 – I feel a divine jealousy for you, for I betrothed you to one husband, to present you as a pure virgin to Christ.
To subject, ὑποτάσσω
Eph 5:24 – Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their husbands.
Adjectives Modifying "Christ" (Χριστός)
To know/choose, προγινώσκω
1 Pet 1:19 – but with the precious blood of Christ, like that of a lamb without blemish or spot.
1 Pet 1:20 – He was foreknown before the foundation of the world but was made manifest in the last times for your sake,
To appoint, προχειρίζω
Acts 3:20 – that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
To crucify, σταυρόω
1 Cor 1:23 – but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles,
To speak, λαλέω
2 Cor 13:3 – since you seek proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.
To end, καταργέω
2 Tim 1:10 – and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
To arise, ἐγείρω
2 Tim 2:8 – Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,
Adverbs Modifying "Christ" (Χριστός)
And, καί
Rom 15:3 – For Christ did not please himself, but as it is written, "The reproaches of those who reproached you fell on me."
Rom 15:7 – Therefore welcome one another as Christ has welcomed you, for the glory of God.
1 Cor 12:12 – For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.
Eph 5:2 – And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
Eph 5:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Eph 5:25 – Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,
Eph 5:29 – For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as Christ does the church,
Heb 5:5 – So also Christ did not exalt himself to be made a high priest, but was appointed by him who said to him, "You are my Son, today I have begotten you";
Heb 9:28 – so Christ, having been offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear a second time, not to deal with sin but to save those who are eagerly waiting for him.
1 Pet 2:21 – For to this you have been called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you might follow in his steps.
1 Pet 3:18 – For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit,
Words Modified by "Christ" (Χριστός)
To crucify with, συσταυρόομαι
Gal 2:19 – For through the law I died to the law, so that I might live to God.
To make alive with, συζωοποιέω
Eph 2:5 – even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ–by grace you have been saved–
To raise up with, συνεγείρω
Col 3:1 – If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.
To desire, καταστρηνιάω
1 Tim 5:11 – But refuse to enroll younger widows, for when their passions draw them away from Christ, they desire to marry
Predicates of "Christ" (Χριστός)
Jesus/Joshua, Ἰησοῦς
Acts 5:42 – And every day, in the temple and from house to house, they did not cease teaching and preaching Jesus as the Christ.
Acts 18:5 – When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.
Acts 18:28 – for he powerfully refuted the Jews in public, showing by the Scriptures that the Christ was Jesus.
Here, ὧδε
Mt 24:23 – Then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'There he is!' do not believe it.
Mk 13:21 – And then if anyone says to you, 'Look, here is the Christ!' or 'Look, there he is!' do not believe it.
Son, υἱός
Mk 12:35 – And as Jesus taught in the temple, he said, "How can the scribes say that the Christ is the son of David?
Lk 20:41 – But he said to them, "How can they say that the Christ is David's son?
Servant, διάκονος
Rom 15:8 – For I tell you that Christ became a servant to the circumcised to show God's truthfulness, in order to confirm the promises given to the patriarchs,
Gal 2:17 – But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!
Head, κεφαλή
1 Cor 11:3 – But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
Eph 5:23 – For the husband is the head of the wife even as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its Savior.
Suffering, παθητός
Acts 26:23 – that the Christ must suffer and that, by being the first to rise from the dead, he would proclaim light both to our people and to the Gentiles."
Goal/tax, τέλος
Rom 10:4 – For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.
God, θεός
1 Cor 3:23 – and you are Christ's, and Christ is God's.
Firstfruits, ἀπαρχή
1 Cor 15:23 – But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
Cornerstone, ἀκρογωνιαῖος
Eph 2:20 – built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
Hope, ἐλπίς
Col 1:27 – To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Appositions with "Christ" (Χριστός)
Jesus/Joshua, Ἰησοῦς
Acts 3:20 – that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and that he may send the Christ appointed for you, Jesus,
Acts 17:3 – explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."
Acts 24:24 – After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.
Rom 1:1 – Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
Rom 3:24 – and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Rom 6:3 – Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Rom 6:11 – So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Rom 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom 8:1 – There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Rom 8:2 – For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:34 – Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died–more than that, who was raised–who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
Rom 8:39 – nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom 15:5 – May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
Rom 15:16 – to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Rom 15:17 – In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.
Rom 16:3 – Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
1 Cor 1:1 – Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
1 Cor 1:4 – I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
1 Cor 1:30 – He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
1 Cor 4:15 – For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
1 Cor 4:17 – That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
1 Cor 15:31 – I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
1 Cor 16:24 – My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
2 Cor 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2 Cor 1:19 – For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, whom we proclaimed among you, Silvanus and Timothy and I, was not Yes and No, but in him it is always Yes.
2 Cor 4:5 – For what we proclaim is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, with ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake.
Gal 2:4 – Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in–who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery–
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 3:26 – for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
Gal 3:28 – There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal 4:14 – and though my condition was a trial to you, you did not scorn or despise me, but received me as an angel of God, as Christ Jesus.
Gal 5:6 – For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
Gal 5:24 – And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Eph 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
Eph 2:6 – and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Eph 2:7 – so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Eph 2:10 – For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Eph 2:13 – But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Eph 2:20 – built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone,
Eph 3:1 – For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles–
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Eph 3:11 – This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,
Eph 3:21 – to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Phil 1:1 – Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:
Phil 1:6 – And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Phil 1:8 – For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.
Phil 1:26 – so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus, because of my coming to you again.
Phil 2:5 – Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
Phil 2:21 – They all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
Phil 3:3 – For we are the real circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh–
Phil 3:8 – Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
Phil 3:12 – Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
Phil 3:14 – I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Phil 4:7 – And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Phil 4:19 – And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Phil 4:21 – Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.
Col 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
Col 1:4 – since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,
Col 2:6 – Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,
Col 4:12 – Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
1 Thess 2:14 – For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
1 Thess 5:18 – give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
1 Tim 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
1 Tim 1:2 – To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Tim 1:12 – I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service,
1 Tim 1:14 – and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
1 Tim 1:15 – The saying is trustworthy and deserving of full acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, of whom I am the foremost.
1 Tim 2:5 – For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,
1 Tim 3:13 – For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
1 Tim 4:6 – If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.
1 Tim 5:21 – In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.
1 Tim 6:13 – I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,
2 Tim 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,
2 Tim 1:2 – To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Tim 1:9 – who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
2 Tim 1:10 – and which now has been manifested through the appearing of our Savior Christ Jesus, who abolished death and brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
2 Tim 1:13 – Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
2 Tim 2:1 – You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,
2 Tim 2:3 – Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
2 Tim 2:10 – Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
2 Tim 3:12 – Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
2 Tim 3:15 – and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
2 Tim 4:1 – I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
Tit 1:4 – To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
Tit 2:13 – waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ,
Phm 1:1 – Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
Phm 1:9 – yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you–I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus–
Phm 1:23 – Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
Lord, κύριος
Lk 2:11 – For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Rom 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom 8:39 – nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Cor 15:31 – I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
Eph 3:11 – This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,
Phil 3:8 – Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
1 Tim 1:2 – To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Tim 1:12 – I thank him who has given me strength, Christ Jesus our Lord, because he judged me faithful, appointing me to his service,
2 Tim 1:2 – To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Son, υἱός
Mt 16:16 – Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Mt 26:63 – But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."
Mk 14:61 – But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"
Jn 11:27 – She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world."
Jn 20:31 – but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
King, βασιλεύς
Mk 15:32 – Let the Christ, the King of Israel, come down now from the cross that we may see and believe." Those who were crucified with him also reviled him.
Lk 23:2 – And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
Select, ἐκλεκτός
Lk 23:35 – And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!"
To come/go, ἔρχομαι
Jn 11:27 – She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world."
To die, ἀποθνήσκω
Rom 8:34 – Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died–more than that, who was raised–who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us.
The/this/who, ὁ
Rom 9:5 – To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen.
Power, δύναμις
1 Cor 1:24 – but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Wisdom, σοφία
1 Cor 1:24 – but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Firstfruits, ἀπαρχή
1 Cor 15:20 – But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the firstfruits of those who have fallen asleep.
Life, ζωή
Col 3:4 – When Christ who is your life appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Hope, ἐλπίς
1 Tim 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
To testify, μαρτυρέω
1 Tim 6:13 – I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,
Be about to, μέλλω
2 Tim 4:1 – I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
Savior, σωτήρ
Tit 1:4 – To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
High-priest, ἀρχιερεύς
Heb 9:11 – But when Christ appeared as a high priest of the good things that have come, then through the greater and more perfect tent (not made with hands, that is, not of this creation)
Prepositions with "Christ" (Χριστός)
In/on/among, ἐν
Rom 3:24 – and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus,
Rom 6:11 – So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Rom 6:23 – For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom 8:1 – There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
Rom 8:2 – For the law of the Spirit of life has set you free in Christ Jesus from the law of sin and death.
Rom 8:39 – nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Rom 9:1 – I am speaking the truth in Christ–I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit–
Rom 12:5 – so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.
Rom 15:17 – In Christ Jesus, then, I have reason to be proud of my work for God.
Rom 16:3 – Greet Prisca and Aquila, my fellow workers in Christ Jesus,
Rom 16:7 – Greet Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen and my fellow prisoners. They are well known to the apostles, and they were in Christ before me.
Rom 16:9 – Greet Urbanus, our fellow worker in Christ, and my beloved Stachys.
Rom 16:10 – Greet Apelles, who is approved in Christ. Greet those who belong to the family of Aristobulus.
1 Cor 1:2 – To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
1 Cor 1:4 – I give thanks to my God always for you because of the grace of God that was given you in Christ Jesus,
1 Cor 1:30 – He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, whom God made our wisdom and our righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
1 Cor 3:1 – But I, brothers, could not address you as spiritual people, but as people of the flesh, as infants in Christ.
1 Cor 4:10 – We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
1 Cor 4:15 – For though you have countless guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For I became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
1 Cor 4:17 – That is why I sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ, as I teach them everywhere in every church.
1 Cor 15:18 – Then those also who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.
1 Cor 15:19 – If in this life only we have hoped in Christ, we are of all people most to be pitied.
1 Cor 15:22 – For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.
1 Cor 15:31 – I protest, brothers, by my pride in you, which I have in Christ Jesus our Lord, I die every day!
1 Cor 16:24 – My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.
2 Cor 2:14 – But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
2 Cor 2:17 – For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.
2 Cor 3:14 – But their minds were hardened. For to this day, when they read the old covenant, that same veil remains unlifted, because only through Christ is it taken away.
2 Cor 5:17 – Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come.
2 Cor 5:19 – that is, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.
2 Cor 12:2 – I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven–whether in the body or out of the body I do not know, God knows.
2 Cor 12:19 – Have you been thinking all along that we have been defending ourselves to you? It is in the sight of God that we have been speaking in Christ, and all for your upbuilding, beloved.
Gal 1:22 – And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
Gal 2:4 – Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in–who slipped in to spy out our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, so that they might bring us into slavery–
Gal 2:17 – But if, in our endeavor to be justified in Christ, we too were found to be sinners, is Christ then a servant of sin? Certainly not!
Gal 3:26 – for in Christ Jesus you are all sons of God, through faith.
Gal 3:28 – There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Gal 5:6 – For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love.
Eph 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
Eph 1:3 – Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
Eph 1:10 – as a plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in him, things in heaven and things on earth.
Eph 1:12 – so that we who were the first to hope in Christ might be to the praise of his glory.
Eph 1:20 – that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places,
Eph 2:6 – and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Eph 2:7 – so that in the coming ages he might show the immeasurable riches of his grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Eph 2:10 – For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Eph 2:13 – But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Eph 3:6 – This mystery is that the Gentiles are fellow heirs, members of the same body, and partakers of the promise in Christ Jesus through the gospel.
Eph 3:11 – This was according to the eternal purpose that he has realized in Christ Jesus our Lord,
Eph 3:21 – to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Eph 4:32 – Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.
Phil 1:1 – Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:
Phil 1:13 – so that it has become known throughout the whole imperial guard and to all the rest that my imprisonment is for Christ.
Phil 1:26 – so that in me you may have ample cause to glory in Christ Jesus, because of my coming to you again.
Phil 2:1 – So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy,
Phil 2:5 – Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,
Phil 3:3 – For we are the real circumcision, who worship by the Spirit of God and glory in Christ Jesus and put no confidence in the flesh–
Phil 3:14 – I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Phil 4:7 – And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Phil 4:19 – And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Phil 4:21 – Greet every saint in Christ Jesus. The brothers who are with me greet you.
Col 1:2 – To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.
Col 1:4 – since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints,
Col 1:28 – Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ.
1 Thess 2:14 – For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Christ Jesus that are in Judea. For you suffered the same things from your own countrymen as they did from the Jews,
1 Thess 4:16 – For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.
1 Thess 5:18 – give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.
1 Tim 1:14 – and the grace of our Lord overflowed for me with the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
1 Tim 3:13 – For those who serve well as deacons gain a good standing for themselves and also great confidence in the faith that is in Christ Jesus.
2 Tim 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,
2 Tim 1:9 – who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
2 Tim 1:13 – Follow the pattern of the sound words that you have heard from me, in the faith and love that are in Christ Jesus.
2 Tim 2:1 – You then, my child, be strengthened by the grace that is in Christ Jesus,
2 Tim 2:10 – Therefore I endure everything for the sake of the elect, that they also may obtain the salvation that is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory.
2 Tim 3:12 – Indeed, all who desire to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,
2 Tim 3:15 – and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
Phm 1:8 – Accordingly, though I am bold enough in Christ to command you to do what is required,
Phm 1:20 – Yes, brother, I want some benefit from you in the Lord. Refresh my heart in Christ.
Phm 1:23 – Epaphras, my fellow prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends greetings to you,
1 Pet 3:16 – yet do it with gentleness and respect, having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame.
1 Pet 5:10 – And after you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.
1 Pet 5:14 – Greet one another with the kiss of love. Peace to all of you who are in Christ.
Toward, εἰς
Acts 24:24 – After some days Felix came with his wife Drusilla, who was Jewish, and he sent for Paul and heard him speak about faith in Christ Jesus.
Rom 6:3 – Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?
Rom 16:5 – Greet also the church in their house. Greet my beloved Epaenetus, who was the first convert to Christ in Asia.
1 Cor 8:12 – Thus, sinning against your brothers and wounding their conscience when it is weak, you sin against Christ.
2 Cor 1:21 – And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us,
2 Cor 11:3 – But I am afraid that as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your thoughts will be led astray from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Gal 3:24 – So then, the law was our guardian until Christ came, in order that we might be justified by faith.
Gal 3:27 – For as many of you as were baptized into Christ have put on Christ.
Eph 5:32 – This mystery is profound, and I am saying that it refers to Christ and the church.
Col 2:5 – For though I am absent in body, yet I am with you in spirit, rejoicing to see your good order and the firmness of your faith in Christ.
Phm 1:6 – and I pray that the sharing of your faith may become effective for the full knowledge of every good thing that is in us for the sake of Christ.
1 Pet 1:11 – inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.
Through/because of, διά
Rom 2:16 – on that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.
1 Cor 4:10 – We are fools for Christ's sake, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute.
2 Cor 1:5 – For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
2 Cor 3:4 – Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God.
2 Cor 5:18 – All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation;
Phil 3:7 – But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ.
From, ἀπό
Rom 9:3 – For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh.
Gal 5:4 – You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace.
1 Tim 1:2 – To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Tim 1:2 – To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
Tit 1:4 – To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
With, σύν
Rom 6:8 – Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
Phil 1:23 – I am hard pressed between the two. My desire is to depart and be with Christ, for that is far better.
Col 2:20 – If with Christ you died to the elemental spirits of the world, why, as if you were still alive in the world, do you submit to regulations–
Col 3:3 – For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
According to, κατά
Acts 4:26 – The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed'–
Rom 15:5 – May the God of endurance and encouragement grant you to live in such harmony with one another, in accord with Christ Jesus,
Col 2:8 – See to it that no one takes you captive by philosophy and empty deceit, according to human tradition, according to the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
Above/for, ὑπέρ
2 Cor 5:20 – Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God.
2 Cor 12:10 – For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Phil 1:29 – For it has been granted to you that for the sake of Christ you should not only believe in him but also suffer for his sake,
Before, ἐνώπιον
1 Tim 5:21 – In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.
1 Tim 6:13 – I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,
2 Tim 4:1 – I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
Until, ἕως
Mt 1:17 – So all the generations from Abraham to David were fourteen generations, and from David to the deportation to Babylon fourteen generations, and from the deportation to Babylon to the Christ fourteen generations.
About, περί
Mt 22:42 – saying, "What do you think about the Christ? Whose son is he?" They said to him, "The son of David."
Without, χωρίς
Eph 2:12 – remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
By/under, ὑπό
Phil 3:12 – Not that I have already obtained this or am already perfect, but I press on to make it my own, because Christ Jesus has made me his own.
With/after, μετά
Rev 20:4 – Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.
"Christ" (Χριστός) with Prepositions
In/on/among, ἐν
Col 1:27 – To them God chose to make known how great among the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.
Of/from, ἐκ
2 Tim 2:8 – Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,
According to, κατά
2 Tim 2:8 – Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, the offspring of David, as preached in my gospel,
… of "Christ" (Χριστός)
Gospel, εὐαγγέλιον
Rom 15:19 – by the power of signs and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God–so that from Jerusalem and all the way around to Illyricum I have fulfilled the ministry of the gospel of Christ;
1 Cor 9:12 – If others share this rightful claim on you, do not we even more? Nevertheless, we have not made use of this right, but we endure anything rather than put an obstacle in the way of the gospel of Christ.
2 Cor 2:12 – When I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though a door was opened for me in the Lord,
2 Cor 9:13 – By their approval of this service, they will glorify God because of your submission flowing from your confession of the gospel of Christ, and the generosity of your contribution for them and for all others,
2 Cor 10:14 – For we are not overextending ourselves, as though we did not reach you. We were the first to come all the way to you with the gospel of Christ.
Gal 1:7 – not that there is another one, but there are some who trouble you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
Phil 1:27 – Only let your manner of life be worthy of the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the gospel,
1 Thess 3:2 – and we sent Timothy, our brother and God's coworker in the gospel of Christ, to establish and exhort you in your faith,
Apostle, ἀπόστολος
1 Cor 1:1 – Paul, called by the will of God to be an apostle of Christ Jesus, and our brother Sosthenes,
2 Cor 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the church of God that is at Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia:
2 Cor 11:13 – For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.
Eph 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, To the saints who are in Ephesus, and are faithful in Christ Jesus:
Col 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,
1 Thess 2:7 – But we were gentle among you, like a nursing mother taking care of her own children.
1 Tim 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
2 Tim 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God according to the promise of the life that is in Christ Jesus,
Slave, δοῦλος
Rom 1:1 – Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, set apart for the gospel of God,
1 Cor 7:22 – For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord. Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.
Gal 1:10 – For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant of Christ.
Eph 6:6 – not by the way of eye-service, as people-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,
Phil 1:1 – Paul and Timothy, servants of Christ Jesus, To all the saints in Christ Jesus who are at Philippi, with the overseers and deacons:
Col 4:12 – Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
Body, σῶμα
Rom 7:4 – Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God.
1 Cor 10:16 – The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
1 Cor 12:27 – Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.
Eph 4:12 – to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ,
Love, ἀγάπη
Rom 8:35 – Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword?
2 Cor 5:14 – For the love of Christ controls us, because we have concluded this: that one has died for all, therefore all have died;
Eph 3:19 – and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Cross, σταυρός
1 Cor 1:17 – For Christ did not send me to baptize but to preach the gospel, and not with words of eloquent wisdom, lest the cross of Christ be emptied of its power.
Gal 6:12 – It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who would force you to be circumcised, and only in order that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.
Phil 3:18 – For many, of whom I have often told you and now tell you even with tears, walk as enemies of the cross of Christ.
Blood, αἷμα
1 Cor 10:16 – The cup of blessing that we bless, is it not a participation in the blood of Christ? The bread that we break, is it not a participation in the body of Christ?
Eph 2:13 – But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
Heb 9:14 – how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our conscience from dead works to serve the living God.
The/this/who, ὁ
1 Cor 15:23 – But each in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, then at his coming those who belong to Christ.
Gal 5:24 – And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Phil 2:21 – They all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ.
Suffering, πάθημα
2 Cor 1:5 – For as we share abundantly in Christ's sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.
1 Pet 4:13 – But rejoice insofar as you share Christ's sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed.
1 Pet 5:1 – So I exhort the elders among you, as a fellow elder and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, as well as a partaker in the glory that is going to be revealed:
Servant, διάκονος
2 Cor 11:23 – Are they servants of Christ? I am a better one–I am talking like a madman–with far greater labors, far more imprisonments, with countless beatings, and often near death.
Col 1:7 – just as you learned it from Epaphras our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your behalf
1 Tim 4:6 – If you put these things before the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, being trained in the words of the faith and of the good doctrine that you have followed.
Prisoner, δέσμιος
Eph 3:1 – For this reason I, Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus on behalf of you Gentiles–
Phm 1:1 – Paul, a prisoner for Christ Jesus, and Timothy our brother, To Philemon our beloved fellow worker
Phm 1:9 – yet for love's sake I prefer to appeal to you–I, Paul, an old man and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus–
Day, ἡμέρα
Phil 1:6 – And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.
Phil 1:10 – so that you may approve what is excellent, and so be pure and blameless for the day of Christ,
Phil 2:16 – holding fast to the word of life, so that in the day of Christ I may be proud that I did not run in vain or labor in vain.
Work, ἔργον
Mt 11:2 – Now when John heard in prison about the deeds of the Christ, he sent word by his disciples
Phil 2:30 – for he nearly died for the work of Christ, risking his life to complete what was lacking in your service to me.
Spirit/breath, πνεῦμα
Rom 8:9 – You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.
1 Pet 1:11 – inquiring what person or time the Spirit of Christ in them was indicating when he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the subsequent glories.
Face, πρόσωπον
2 Cor 2:10 – Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. What I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ,
2 Cor 4:6 – For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness," has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
Glory, δόξα
2 Cor 4:4 – In their case the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelievers, to keep them from seeing the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.
2 Cor 8:23 – As for Titus, he is my partner and fellow worker for your benefit. And as for our brothers, they are messengers of the churches, the glory of Christ.
Faith/trust, πίστις
Gal 2:16 – yet we know that a person is not justified by works of the law but through faith in Jesus Christ, so we also have believed in Christ Jesus, in order to be justified by faith in Christ and not by works of the law, because by works of the law no one will be justified.
Phil 3:9 – and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith–
Mystery, μυστήριον
Eph 3:4 – When you read this, you can perceive my insight into the mystery of Christ,
Col 4:3 – At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison–
Resurrection, ἀνάστασις
Acts 2:31 – he foresaw and spoke about the resurrection of the Christ, that he was not abandoned to Hades, nor did his flesh see corruption.
Co-heir, συγκληρονόμος
Rom 8:17 – and if children, then heirs–heirs of God and fellow heirs with Christ, provided we suffer with him in order that we may also be glorified with him.
Word, ῥῆμα
Rom 10:17 – So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
Minister, λειτουργός
Rom 15:16 – to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the offering of the Gentiles may be acceptable, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
Praise, εὐλογία
Rom 15:29 – I know that when I come to you I will come in the fullness of the blessing of Christ.
Assembly, ἐκκλησία
Rom 16:16 – Greet one another with a holy kiss. All the churches of Christ greet you.
Testimony, μαρτύριον
1 Cor 1:6 – even as the testimony about Christ was confirmed among you–
Mind, νοῦς
1 Cor 2:16 – "For who has understood the mind of the Lord so as to instruct him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
Servant, ὑπηρέτης
1 Cor 4:1 – This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and stewards of the mysteries of God.
Member, μέλος
1 Cor 6:15 – Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!
Under law, ἔννομος
1 Cor 9:21 – To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (not being outside the law of God but under the law of Christ) that I might win those outside the law.
Head, κεφαλή
1 Cor 11:3 – But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God.
Aroma, εὐωδία
2 Cor 2:15 – For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing,
Epistle, ἐπιστολή
2 Cor 3:3 – And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts.
Judgement seat, βῆμα
2 Cor 5:10 – For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
Harmony, συμφώνησις
2 Cor 6:15 – What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever?
Gentleness, ἐπιείκεια
2 Cor 10:1 – I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ–I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!–
Gentleness, πραΰτης
2 Cor 10:1 – I, Paul, myself entreat you, by the meekness and gentleness of Christ–I who am humble when face to face with you, but bold toward you when I am away!–
Obedience, ὑπακοή
2 Cor 10:5 – We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
Truth, ἀλήθεια
2 Cor 11:10 – As the truth of Christ is in me, this boasting of mine will not be silenced in the regions of Achaia.
Power, δύναμις
2 Cor 12:9 – But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness." Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Test, δοκιμή
2 Cor 13:3 – since you seek proof that Christ is speaking in me. He is not weak in dealing with you, but is powerful among you.
Grace, χάρις
Gal 1:6 – I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel–
Law, νόμος
Gal 6:2 – Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.
Riches, πλοῦτος
Eph 3:8 – To me, though I am the very least of all the saints, this grace was given, to preach to the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ,
Free gift, δωρεά
Eph 4:7 – But grace was given to each one of us according to the measure of Christ's gift.
Fulfillment, πλήρωμα
Eph 4:13 – until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,
Kingdom, βασιλεία
Eph 5:5 – For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Fear, φόβος
Eph 5:21 – submitting to one another out of reverence for Christ.
Affection/entrails, σπλάγχνον
Phil 1:8 – For God is my witness, how I yearn for you all with the affection of Christ Jesus.
Knowledge, γνῶσις
Phil 3:8 – Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have suffered the loss of all things and count them as rubbish, in order that I may gain Christ
Pressure, θλῖψις
Col 1:24 – Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and in my flesh I am filling up what is lacking in Christ's afflictions for the sake of his body, that is, the church,
Circumcision, περιτομή
Col 2:11 – In him also you were circumcised with a circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,
Peace, εἰρήνη
Col 3:15 – And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Word, λόγος
Col 3:16 – Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God.
Perseverance, ὑπομονή
2 Thess 3:5 – May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.
Command, ἐπιταγή
1 Tim 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
Soldier, στρατιώτης
2 Tim 2:3 – Share in suffering as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.
Partaker, μέτοχος
Heb 3:14 – For we share in Christ, if indeed we hold our original confidence firm to the end.
Beginning, ἀρχή
Heb 6:1 – Therefore let us leave the elementary doctrine of Christ and go on to maturity, not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead works and of faith toward God,
Reproach, ὀνειδισμός
Heb 11:26 – He considered the reproach of Christ greater wealth than the treasures of Egypt, for he was looking to the reward.
Name, ὄνομα
1 Pet 4:14 – If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.
Teaching, διδαχή
2 Jn 1:9 – Everyone who goes on ahead and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God. Whoever abides in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.
Authority, ἐξουσία
Rev 12:10 – And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
Priest, ἱερεύς
Rev 20:6 – Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
"Christ" (Χριστός) of …
He/she/it/self, αὐτός
Acts 3:18 – But what God foretold by the mouth of all the prophets, that his Christ would suffer, he thus fulfilled.
Acts 4:26 – The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers were gathered together, against the Lord and against his Anointed'–
Rev 11:15 – Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."
Rev 12:10 – And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, "Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.
God, θεός
Lk 9:20 – Then he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" And Peter answered, "The Christ of God."
Lk 23:35 – And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!"
Lord, κύριος
Lk 2:26 – And it had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not see death before he had seen the Lord's Christ.
Verbal Copula of "Christ" (Χριστός)
To be, εἰμί
Mt 16:16 – Simon Peter replied, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Mt 16:20 – Then he strictly charged the disciples to tell no one that he was the Christ.
Mt 24:5 – For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and they will lead many astray.
Mt 26:63 – But Jesus remained silent. And the high priest said to him, "I adjure you by the living God, tell us if you are the Christ, the Son of God."
Mk 8:29 – And he asked them, "But who do you say that I am?" Peter answered him, "You are the Christ."
Mk 9:41 – For truly, I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink because you belong to Christ will by no means lose his reward.
Mk 14:61 – But he remained silent and made no answer. Again the high priest asked him, "Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?"
Lk 2:11 – For unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, who is Christ the Lord.
Lk 3:15 – As the people were in expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Christ,
Lk 4:41 – And demons also came out of many, crying, "You are the Son of God!" But he rebuked them and would not allow them to speak, because they knew that he was the Christ.
Lk 22:67 – "If you are the Christ, tell us." But he said to them, "If I tell you, you will not believe,
Lk 23:2 – And they began to accuse him, saying, "We found this man misleading our nation and forbidding us to give tribute to Caesar, and saying that he himself is Christ, a king."
Lk 23:35 – And the people stood by, watching, but the rulers scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others; let him save himself, if he is the Christ of God, his Chosen One!"
Lk 23:39 – One of the criminals who were hanged railed at him, saying, "Are you not the Christ? Save yourself and us!"
Jn 1:20 – He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, "I am not the Christ."
Jn 1:25 – They asked him, "Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?"
Jn 3:28 – You yourselves bear me witness, that I said, 'I am not the Christ, but I have been sent before him.'
Jn 4:29 – "Come, see a man who told me all that I ever did. Can this be the Christ?"
Jn 7:26 – And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?
Jn 7:41 – Others said, "This is the Christ." But some said, "Is the Christ to come from Galilee?
Jn 10:24 – So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, "How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."
Jn 11:27 – She said to him, "Yes, Lord; I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming into the world."
Jn 20:31 – but these are written so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.
Acts 9:22 – But Saul increased all the more in strength, and confounded the Jews who lived in Damascus by proving that Jesus was the Christ.
Acts 17:3 – explaining and proving that it was necessary for the Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead, and saying, "This Jesus, whom I proclaim to you, is the Christ."
1 Cor 10:4 – and all drank the same spiritual drink. For they drank from the spiritual Rock that followed them, and the Rock was Christ.
2 Cor 10:7 – Look at what is before your eyes. If anyone is confident that he is Christ's, let him remind himself that just as he is Christ's, so also are we.
Gal 3:16 – Now the promises were made to Abraham and to his offspring. It does not say, "And to offsprings," referring to many, but referring to one, "And to your offspring," who is Christ.
1 Jn 2:22 – Who is the liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, he who denies the Father and the Son.
1 Jn 5:1 – Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has been born of God, and everyone who loves the Father loves whoever has been born of him.
To speak, λέγω
Mt 1:16 – and Jacob the father of Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom Jesus was born, who is called Christ.
Mt 27:17 – So when they had gathered, Pilate said to them, "Whom do you want me to release for you: Barabbas, or Jesus who is called Christ?"
Mt 27:22 – Pilate said to them, "Then what shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?" They all said, "Let him be crucified!"
Jn 4:25 – The woman said to him, "I know that Messiah is coming (he who is called Christ). When he comes, he will tell us all things."
To mean, μεθερμηνεύω
Jn 1:41 – He first found his own brother Simon and said to him, "We have found the Messiah" (which means Christ).
To be, γίνομαι
Rev 11:15 – Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."
… and "Christ" (Χριστός)
God, θεός
1 Tim 1:1 – Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by command of God our Savior and of Christ Jesus our hope,
1 Tim 1:2 – To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
1 Tim 6:13 – I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,
2 Tim 1:2 – To Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.
2 Tim 4:1 – I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
Tit 1:4 – To Titus, my true child in a common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Savior.
Rev 20:6 – Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.
Lord, κύριος
Rev 11:15 – Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."
"Christ" (Χριστός) and …
God, θεός
Eph 5:5 – For you may be sure of this, that everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous (that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.
Ex 28:41 – And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
Ex 29:7 – You shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.
Ex 29:21 – Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and his sons' garments with him. He and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.
Ex 30:30 – You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
Ex 40:13 – and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest.
Ex 40:15 – and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations."
Lev 6:20 – "This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall offer to the LORD on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.
Lev 7:36 – The LORD commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations."
Lev 8:12 – And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him.
Lev 8:30 – Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, and also on his sons and his sons' garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.
Lev 10:7 – And do not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest you die, for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you." And they did according to the word of Moses.
Sons of Aaron
Ex 28:41 – And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
Ex 29:21 – Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and his sons' garments with him. He and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.
Ex 29:29 – "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him; they shall be anointed in them and ordained in them.
Ex 30:30 – You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
Ex 40:15 – and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations."
Lev 7:36 – The LORD commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations."
Lev 8:30 – Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, and also on his sons and his sons' garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.
Lev 10:7 – And do not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest you die, for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you." And they did according to the word of Moses.
Num 3:3 – These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.
High priest
Lev 16:32 – And the priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father's place shall make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments.
Lev 21:10 – "The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose nor tear his clothes.
Lev 21:12 – He shall not go out of the sanctuary, lest he profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am the LORD.
Num 35:25 – And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
Zadok
1 Chr 29:22 – And they ate and drank before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and they anointed him as prince for the LORD, and Zadok as priest.
Kings
David
1 Sam 16:12 – And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the LORD said, "Arise, anoint him, for this is he."
1 Sam 16:13 – Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
2 Sam 2:4 – And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,"
2 Sam 2:7 – Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them."
2 Sam 3:39 – And I was gentle today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are more severe than I. The LORD repay the evildoer according to his wickedness!"
2 Sam 5:3 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.
2 Sam 5:17 – When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.
2 Sam 12:7 – Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
1 Chr 11:3 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
Ps 89:20 – I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him,
Solomon
1 Kgs 1:34 – And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'
1 Kgs 1:39 – There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!"
1 Kgs 1:45 – And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.
1 Kgs 5:1 – Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram always loved David.
Jehu
1 Kgs 19:16 – And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.
2 Kgs 9:3 – Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.' Then open the door and flee; do not linger."
2 Kgs 9:6 – So he arose and went into the house. And the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, "Thus says the LORD the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.
2 Kgs 9:12 – And they said, "That is not true; tell us now." And he said, "Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.'"
2 Chr 22:7 – But it was ordained by God that the downfall of Ahaziah should come about through his going to visit Joram. For when he came there, he went out with Jehoram to meet Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
Saul
1 Sam 9:16 – "Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me."
1 Sam 10:1 – Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the LORD anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the LORD and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the LORD has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
1 Sam 15:1 – And Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the LORD.
1 Sam 15:17 – And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.
King
Judg 9:8 – The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'
Ps 45:7 – you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
Joash
2 Kgs 11:12 – Then he brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, "Long live the king!"
2 Chr 23:11 – Then they brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, "Long live the king."
Hazael
1 Kgs 19:15 – And the LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
Elisha
1 Kgs 19:16 – And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.
Jehoahaz
2 Kgs 23:30 – And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
Notable men
Amos 6:6 – who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
Jesus
Isa 61:1 – The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
Lk 4:18 – "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
Acts 4:27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
Acts 10:38 – how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Believers
1 Jn 2:20 – But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
1 Jn 2:27 – But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything–and is true and is no lie, just as it has taught you–abide in him.
Bramble
Judg 9:15 – And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'
Absalom
2 Sam 19:10 – But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?"
Elisha
1 Kgs 19:16 – And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.
What is anointed
Altar
Ex 29:36 – and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall purify the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it to consecrate it.
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ex 30:27 – and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
Ex 30:28 – and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the basin and its stand.
Ex 40:10 – You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy.
Lev 8:11 – And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.
Num 7:1 – On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,
Num 7:84 – This was the dedication offering for the altar on the day when it was anointed, from the chiefs of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes,
Num 7:88 – and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.
Utensils/furnishings
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ex 30:27 – and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
Ex 30:28 – and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the basin and its stand.
Ex 40:9 – "Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy.
Ex 40:10 – You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy.
Lev 8:11 – And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.
Num 7:1 – On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,
Wafers
Ex 29:2 – and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.
Lev 2:4 – "When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.
Lev 7:12 – If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil.
Num 6:15 – and a basket of unleavened bread, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their drink offerings.
Basin
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ex 30:28 – and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the basin and its stand.
Ex 40:11 – You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it.
Lev 8:11 – And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.
Stand
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ex 30:28 – and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the basin and its stand.
Ex 40:11 – You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it.
Lev 8:11 – And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.
Tabernacle
Ex 40:9 – "Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy.
Lev 8:10 – Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
Num 7:1 – On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,
Garments
Ex 29:21 – Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and his sons' garments with him. He and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.
Lev 8:30 – Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, and also on his sons and his sons' garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.
Lampstand
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ex 30:27 – and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
Table
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ex 30:27 – and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
All that is in the tabernacle
Ex 40:9 – "Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy.
Lev 8:10 – Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
Pillar
Gen 31:13 – I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.'"
Tent of meeting
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ark
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Shield
Isa 21:5 – They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes; oil the shield!
House
Jer 22:14 – who says, 'I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion.
Cherub
Ezek 28:14 – You were an anointed guardian cherub. I placed you; you were on the holy mountain of God; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.
Most holy place
Dan 9:24 – "Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
Who anoints
Moses
Ex 28:41 – And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
Ex 29:7 – You shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.
Ex 29:21 – Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and his sons' garments with him. He and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.
Ex 29:36 – and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall purify the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it to consecrate it.
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ex 30:30 – You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
Ex 40:9 – "Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy.
Ex 40:10 – You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy.
Ex 40:11 – You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it.
Ex 40:13 – and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest.
Ex 40:15 – and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations."
Lev 7:36 – The LORD commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations."
Lev 8:10 – Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
Lev 8:11 – And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.
Lev 8:12 – And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him.
Num 7:1 – On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,
The LORD God
1 Sam 15:17 – And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.
2 Sam 12:7 – Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
2 Kgs 9:3 – Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.' Then open the door and flee; do not linger."
2 Kgs 9:6 – So he arose and went into the house. And the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, "Thus says the LORD the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.
2 Kgs 9:12 – And they said, "That is not true; tell us now." And he said, "Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.'"
2 Chr 22:7 – But it was ordained by God that the downfall of Ahaziah should come about through his going to visit Joram. For when he came there, he went out with Jehoram to meet Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
Ps 45:7 – you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
Ps 89:20 – I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him,
Isa 61:1 – The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
Lk 4:18 – "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
Acts 4:27 for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
Acts 10:38 – how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
2 Cor 1:21 And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us,
Heb 1:9 – You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions."
1 Jn 2:20 – But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
1 Jn 2:27 – But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything–and is true and is no lie, just as it has taught you–abide in him.
Samuel
1 Sam 15:1 – And Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the LORD.
1 Sam 16:3 – And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you."
1 Sam 16:3 – And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you."
1 Sam 16:12 – And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the LORD said, "Arise, anoint him, for this is he."
1 Sam 16:13 – Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
Zadok and Nathan
1 Kgs 1:34 – And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'
1 Kgs 1:45 – And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.
Zadok
1 Kgs 1:39 – There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!"
Men of Judah
2 Sam 2:4 – And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,"
2 Sam 2:7 – Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them."
Elijah
1 Kgs 19:15 – And the LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
1 Kgs 19:16 – And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.
Jehoida and his sons
2 Kgs 11:12 – Then he brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, "Long live the king!"
2 Chr 23:11 – Then they brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, "Long live the king."
Tribes of Israel
2 Sam 19:10 – But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?"
People of the land
2 Kgs 23:30 – And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
Elders of Israel
1 Chr 11:3 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
Princes
Isa 21:5 – They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes; oil the shield!
The unrighteous
Jer 22:14 – who says, 'I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion.
Notable men
Amos 6:6 – who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
What to anoint with
Oil
Ex 25:6 – oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
Ex 29:2 – and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.
Ex 29:7 – You shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.
Ex 29:21 – Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and his sons' garments with him. He and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.
Ex 30:25 – And you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ex 30:31 – And you shall say to the people of Israel, 'This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.
Ex 31:11 – and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the Holy Place. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do."
Ex 35:8 – oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
Ex 35:15 – and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;
Ex 35:28 – and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.
Ex 37:29 – He made the holy anointing oil also, and the pure fragrant incense, blended as by the perfumer.
Ex 39:38 – the golden altar, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the entrance of the tent;
Ex 40:9 – "Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy.
Lev 2:4 – "When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.
Lev 7:12 – If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil.
Lev 8:2 – "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread.
Lev 8:10 – Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
Lev 8:11 – And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.
Lev 8:12 – And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him.
Lev 8:30 – Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, and also on his sons and his sons' garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.
Lev 10:7 – And do not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest you die, for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you." And they did according to the word of Moses.
Lev 21:10 – "The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose nor tear his clothes.
Lev 21:12 – He shall not go out of the sanctuary, lest he profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am the LORD.
Num 4:16 – "And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the regular grain offering, and the anointing oil, with the oversight of the whole tabernacle and all that is in it, of the sanctuary and its vessels."
Num 6:15 – and a basket of unleavened bread, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their drink offerings.
Num 35:25 – And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
1 Sam 10:1 – Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the LORD anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the LORD and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the LORD has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
1 Sam 16:13 – Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
1 Kgs 1:39 – There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!"
Ps 45:7 – you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
Ps 89:20 – I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him,
Amos 6:6 – who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
Heb 1:9 You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions."
Portion of offering [footnote text=“The Hebrew word translated "portion" in the following verse means "anointing."”]
Lev 7:35 – This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the LORD's food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the LORD.
Contributions [footnote text=“The Hebrew word translated "portion" in the following verse means "anointing."”]
Num 18:8 – Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.
Vermilion
Jer 22:14 – who says, 'I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion.
Holy Spirit
Acts 10:38 – how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Purpose of anointing
Be king
Judg 9:8 – The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'
Judg 9:15 – And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'
1 Sam 15:1 – And Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the LORD.
1 Sam 15:17 – And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.
2 Sam 2:4 – And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,"
2 Sam 2:7 – Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them."
2 Sam 3:39 – And I was gentle today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are more severe than I. The LORD repay the evildoer according to his wickedness!"
2 Sam 5:3 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.
2 Sam 5:17 – When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.
2 Sam 12:7 – Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
1 Kgs 1:34 – And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'
1 Kgs 1:39 – There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!"
1 Kgs 1:45 – And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.
1 Kgs 5:1 – Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram always loved David.
1 Kgs 19:15 – And the LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
1 Kgs 19:16 – And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.
2 Kgs 9:3 – Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.' Then open the door and flee; do not linger."
2 Kgs 9:6 – So he arose and went into the house. And the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, "Thus says the LORD the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.
2 Kgs 9:12 – And they said, "That is not true; tell us now." And he said, "Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.'"
2 Kgs 11:12 – Then he brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, "Long live the king!"
2 Kgs 23:30 – And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
1 Chr 11:3 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
1 Chr 14:8 – When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went out against them.
1 Chr 29:22 – And they ate and drank before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and they anointed him as prince for the LORD, and Zadok as priest.
2 Chr 23:11 – Then they brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, "Long live the king."
Be priest
Ex 28:41 – And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
Ex 40:13 – and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest.
Ex 40:15 – and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations."
Num 3:3 – These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.
1 Chr 29:22 – And they ate and drank before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and they anointed him as prince for the LORD, and Zadok as priest.
Consecrate
Ex 29:36 – and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall purify the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it to consecrate it.
Lev 8:11 – And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.
Lev 8:12 – And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him.
Be prince
1 Sam 9:16 – "Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me."
1 Sam 10:1 – Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the LORD anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the LORD and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the LORD has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
1 Chr 29:22 – And they ate and drank before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and they anointed him as prince for the LORD, and Zadok as priest.
Bring good news to the poor
Isa 61:1 – The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
Lk 4:18 "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
Know all things
1 Jn 2:20 – But you have been anointed by the Holy One, and you all have knowledge.
1 Jn 2:27 – But the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything–and is true and is no lie, just as it has taught you–abide in him.
Actions parallel to anointing
Consecrate
Ex 28:41 – And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
Ex 30:30 – You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
Ex 40:9 – "Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy.
Ex 40:10 – You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy.
Ex 40:11 – You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it.
Ex 40:13 – and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest.
Lev 8:10 – Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
Lev 8:30 – Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, and also on his sons and his sons' garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.
Lev 16:32 – And the priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father's place shall make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments.
Num 7:1 – On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,
Offer
Lev 6:20 – "This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall offer to the LORD on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.
Num 7:10 – And the chiefs offered offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed; and the chiefs offered their offering before the altar.
Num 7:84 – This was the dedication offering for the altar on the day when it was anointed, from the chiefs of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes,
Num 7:88 – and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.
Proclaim king
2 Kgs 11:12 – Then he brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, "Long live the king!"
2 Chr 23:11 – Then they brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, "Long live the king."
Make a vow
Gen 31:13 – I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.'"
Ordain
Ex 28:41 – And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
Ex 29:29 – "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him; they shall be anointed in them and ordained in them.
Purify
Ex 29:36 – and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall purify the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it to consecrate it.
Make king
2 Kgs 23:30 – And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
Finish the transgression…
Dan 9:24 – "Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
Drink wine
Amos 6:6 – who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
Words related grammatically to "anoint" (מָשַׁח)
Subjects of "Anoint" (מָשַׁח)
[object marker], אֵת
Lev 6:20 – "This is the offering that Aaron and his sons shall offer to the LORD on the day when he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.
Num 7:10 – And the chiefs offered offerings for the dedication of the altar on the day it was anointed; and the chiefs offered their offering before the altar.
Num 7:84 – This was the dedication offering for the altar on the day when it was anointed, from the chiefs of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes,
Num 7:88 – and all the cattle for the sacrifice of peace offerings twenty-four bulls, the rams sixty, the male goats sixty, the male lambs a year old sixty. This was the dedication offering for the altar after it was anointed.
YHWH, יהוה
1 Sam 10:1 – Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the LORD anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the LORD and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the LORD has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
1 Sam 15:17 – And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.
2 Chr 22:7 – But it was ordained by God that the downfall of Ahaziah should come about through his going to visit Joram. For when he came there, he went out with Jehoram to meet Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
Isa 61:1 – The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
Nathan, נָתָן
1 Kgs 1:34 – And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'
1 Kgs 1:45 – And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.
Zadok, צָדֹוק
1 Kgs 1:34 – And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'
1 Kgs 1:45 – And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.
Him
Lev 7:36 – The LORD commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations."
These, אֵהֶל
Num 3:3 – These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.
Thou, אַתְּ
Judg 9:15 – And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'
House, בַּיִת
2 Sam 2:7 – Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them."
King, מֶלֶךְ
2 Sam 3:39 – And I was gentle today, though anointed king. These men, the sons of Zeruiah, are more severe than I. The LORD repay the evildoer according to his wickedness!"
I, אָנׄכִי
2 Sam 12:7 – Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
David, דָּוִד
1 Chr 14:8 – When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went out against them.
Son, בֵּן
2 Chr 23:11 – Then they brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, "Long live the king."
Jehoiada, יְהֹויָדָע
2 Chr 23:11 – Then they brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, "Long live the king."
God/god(s), אֱלֹהִים
Ps 45:7 – you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
Objects of "Anoint" (מָשַׁח)
[object marker], אֵת
Ex 28:41 – And you shall put them on Aaron your brother, and on his sons with him, and shall anoint them and ordain them and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
Ex 29:7 – You shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.
Ex 29:36 – and every day you shall offer a bull as a sin offering for atonement. Also you shall purify the altar, when you make atonement for it, and shall anoint it to consecrate it.
Ex 40:13 – and put on Aaron the holy garments. And you shall anoint him and consecrate him, that he may serve me as priest.
Ex 40:15 – and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations."
Lev 7:36 – The LORD commanded this to be given them by the people of Israel, from the day that he anointed them. It is a perpetual due throughout their generations."
Lev 8:12 – And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him.
Lev 16:32 – And the priest who is anointed and consecrated as priest in his father's place shall make atonement, wearing the holy linen garments.
Num 7:1 – On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,
Num 35:25 – And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
Judg 9:15 – And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'
1 Sam 16:13 – Then Samuel took the horn of oil and anointed him in the midst of his brothers. And the Spirit of the LORD rushed upon David from that day forward. And Samuel rose up and went to Ramah.
2 Sam 2:7 – Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them."
1 Kgs 1:34 – And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'
1 Kgs 1:45 – And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.
1 Kgs 5:1 – Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram always loved David.
2 Kgs 23:30 – And his servants carried him dead in a chariot from Megiddo and brought him to Jerusalem and buried him in his own tomb. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father's place.
Isa 61:1 – The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me, because the LORD has anointed me to bring good news to the poor; he has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to those who are bound;
You
1 Sam 10:1 – Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the LORD anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the LORD and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the LORD has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
1 Sam 15:1 – And Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the LORD.
1 Sam 15:17 – And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.
2 Sam 12:7 – Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
2 Kgs 9:3 – Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.' Then open the door and flee; do not linger."
2 Kgs 9:6 – So he arose and went into the house. And the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, "Thus says the LORD the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.
2 Kgs 9:12 – And they said, "That is not true; tell us now." And he said, "Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.'"
Ps 45:7 – you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness. Therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions;
Him
1 Sam 9:16 – "Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me."
1 Sam 16:12 – And he sent and brought him in. Now he was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome. And the LORD said, "Arise, anoint him, for this is he."
2 Kgs 11:12 – Then he brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king and anointed him, and they clapped their hands and said, "Long live the king!"
2 Chr 22:7 – But it was ordained by God that the downfall of Ahaziah should come about through his going to visit Joram. For when he came there, he went out with Jehoram to meet Jehu the son of Nimshi, whom the LORD had anointed to destroy the house of Ahab.
2 Chr 23:11 – Then they brought out the king's son and put the crown on him and gave him the testimony. And they proclaimed him king, and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him, and they said, "Long live the king."
Ps 89:20 – I have found David, my servant; with my holy oil I have anointed him,
Tool, כְּלִי
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ex 30:27 – and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
Ex 30:28 – and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the basin and its stand.
Ex 40:10 – You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy.
Lev 8:11 – And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.
Altar, מִזְבֵּחַ
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ex 30:27 – and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
Ex 30:28 – and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the basin and its stand.
Ex 40:10 – You shall also anoint the altar of burnt offering and all its utensils, and consecrate the altar, so that the altar may become most holy.
Lev 8:11 – And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.
Basin, כִּיּׄור
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ex 30:28 – and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the basin and its stand.
Ex 40:11 – You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it.
Lev 8:11 – And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.
Base, כֵּן
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ex 30:28 – and the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils and the basin and its stand.
Ex 40:11 – You shall also anoint the basin and its stand, and consecrate it.
Lev 8:11 – And he sprinkled some of it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its utensils and the basin and its stand, to consecrate them.
David, דָּוִד
2 Sam 2:4 – And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,"
2 Sam 5:3 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.
2 Sam 5:17 – When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.
1 Chr 11:3 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
Lamp stand, מְנׄורָה
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ex 30:27 – and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
Table, שֻׁלְחָן
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ex 30:27 – and the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense,
Whole, כֹּל
Ex 40:9 – "Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy.
Lev 8:10 – Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
Dwelling-place, מִשְׁכָּן
Ex 40:9 – "Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy.
Lev 8:10 – Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
Massebe, מַצֵּבָה
Gen 31:13 – I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.'"
Tent, אֹהֶל
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Ark, אֲרֹון
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Aaron, אַהֲרֹון
Ex 30:30 – You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
Son, בֵּן
Ex 30:30 – You shall anoint Aaron and his sons, and consecrate them, that they may serve me as priests.
Father, אָב
Ex 40:15 – and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations."
Them
Num 7:1 – On the day when Moses had finished setting up the tabernacle and had anointed and consecrated it with all its furnishings and had anointed and consecrated the altar with all its utensils,
King, מֶלֶךְ
Judg 9:8 – The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'
Solomon, שְׁלֹמֹה
1 Kgs 1:39 – There Zadok the priest took the horn of oil from the tent and anointed Solomon. Then they blew the trumpet, and all the people said, "Long live King Solomon!"
Hazael, חֲזָאֵל
1 Kgs 19:15 – And the LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
Elisha, אֱלִישָׁע
1 Kgs 19:16 – And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.
Jehu, יֵהוּא
1 Kgs 19:16 – And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.
Shield, מָגֵן
Isa 21:5 – They prepare the table, they spread the rugs, they eat, they drink. Arise, O princes; oil the shield!
Holiness, קֹדֶשׁ
Dan 9:24 – "Seventy weeks are decreed about your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to put an end to sin, and to atone for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal both vision and prophet, and to anoint a most holy place.
Beginning, רֵאשִׁית
Amos 6:6 – who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
Indirect Objects of "Anoint" (מָשַׁח)
King, מֶלֶךְ
Judg 9:15 – And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'
1 Sam 15:1 – And Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the LORD.
1 Sam 15:17 – And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.
2 Sam 2:4 – And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,"
2 Sam 2:7 – Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them."
2 Sam 5:3 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.
2 Sam 5:17 – When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.
2 Sam 12:7 – Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
1 Kgs 1:34 – And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'
1 Kgs 1:45 – And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.
1 Kgs 5:1 – Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram always loved David.
1 Kgs 19:15 – And the LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
1 Kgs 19:16 – And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.
2 Kgs 9:3 – Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.' Then open the door and flee; do not linger."
2 Kgs 9:6 – So he arose and went into the house. And the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, "Thus says the LORD the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.
2 Kgs 9:12 – And they said, "That is not true; tell us now." And he said, "Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.'"
1 Chr 11:3 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
1 Chr 14:8 – When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went out against them.
Israel, יִשְׂרָאֵל
1 Sam 15:1 – And Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the LORD.
1 Sam 15:17 – And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.
2 Sam 5:3 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.
2 Sam 5:17 – When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.
2 Sam 12:7 – Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
1 Kgs 1:34 – And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'
1 Kgs 19:16 – And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.
2 Kgs 9:3 – Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.' Then open the door and flee; do not linger."
2 Kgs 9:6 – So he arose and went into the house. And the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, "Thus says the LORD the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.
2 Kgs 9:12 – And they said, "That is not true; tell us now." And he said, "Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.'"
1 Chr 11:3 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
1 Chr 14:8 – When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went out against them.
Oil, שֶׁמֶן
Ex 29:2 – and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.
Lev 2:4 – "When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.
Lev 7:12 – If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil.
Num 6:15 – and a basket of unleavened bread, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their drink offerings.
Num 35:25 – And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
Chief, נָגִיד
1 Sam 9:16 – "Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me."
1 Sam 10:1 – Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the LORD anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the LORD and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the LORD has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
1 Chr 29:22 – And they ate and drank before the Lord on that day with great gladness.
People, עַם
1 Sam 9:16 – "Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me."
1 Sam 15:1 – And Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the LORD.
2 Kgs 9:6 – So he arose and went into the house. And the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, "Thus says the LORD the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.
One lifted up, נָשִׂיא
Num 7:84 – This was the dedication offering for the altar on the day when it was anointed, from the chiefs of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes,
Heritage, נַחֲלָה
1 Sam 10:1 – Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the LORD anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the LORD and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the LORD has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
House, בַּיִת
2 Sam 2:4 – And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,"
Aram, אֲרָם
1 Kgs 19:15 – And the LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
Prophet, נָבִיא
1 Kgs 19:16 – And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.
Minium, שָׁשַׁר
Jer 22:14 – who says, 'I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion.
Adverbs Modifying "Anoint" (מָשַׁח)
There, שָׁם
Gen 31:13 – I am the God of Bethel, where you anointed a pillar and made a vow to me. Now arise, go out from this land and return to the land of your kindred.'"
2 Sam 2:4 – And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,"
Words Modified by "Anoint" (מָשַׁח)
Priest, כֹּהֵן
Num 3:3 – These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the anointed priests, whom he ordained to serve as priests.
"Anoint" (מָשַׁח) with Prepositions
To, for, לְ
Judg 9:15 – And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'
1 Sam 9:16 – "Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me."
1 Sam 10:1 – Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the LORD anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the LORD and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the LORD has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
1 Sam 15:1 – And Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the LORD.
1 Sam 15:17 – And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.
1 Sam 16:3 – And invite Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall do. And you shall anoint for me him whom I declare to you."
2 Sam 2:4 – And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,"
2 Sam 2:7 – Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them."
2 Sam 5:3 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.
2 Sam 5:17 – When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.
2 Sam 12:7 – Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
1 Kgs 1:34 – And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'
1 Kgs 1:45 – And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, so that the city is in an uproar. This is the noise that you have heard.
1 Kgs 5:1 – Now Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants to Solomon when he heard that they had anointed him king in place of his father, for Hiram always loved David.
1 Kgs 19:15 – And the LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
1 Kgs 19:16 – And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.
2 Kgs 9:3 – Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.' Then open the door and flee; do not linger."
2 Kgs 9:6 – So he arose and went into the house. And the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, "Thus says the LORD the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.
2 Kgs 9:12 – And they said, "That is not true; tell us now." And he said, "Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.'"
1 Chr 11:3 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
1 Chr 14:8 – When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went out against them.
1 Chr 29:22 – And they ate and drank before the Lord on that day with great gladness.
Above, עַל
Judg 9:8 – The trees once went out to anoint a king over them, and they said to the olive tree, 'Reign over us.'
Judg 9:15 – And the bramble said to the trees, 'If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade, but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.'
1 Sam 9:16 – "Tomorrow about this time I will send to you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you shall anoint him to be prince over my people Israel. He shall save my people from the hand of the Philistines. For I have seen my people, because their cry has come to me."
1 Sam 10:1 – Then Samuel took a flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, "Has not the LORD anointed you to be prince over his people Israel? And you shall reign over the people of the LORD and you will save them from the hand of their surrounding enemies. And this shall be the sign to you that the LORD has anointed you to be prince over his heritage.
1 Sam 15:1 – And Samuel said to Saul, "The LORD sent me to anoint you king over his people Israel; now therefore listen to the words of the LORD.
1 Sam 15:17 – And Samuel said, "Though you are little in your own eyes, are you not the head of the tribes of Israel? The LORD anointed you king over Israel.
2 Sam 2:4 – And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. When they told David, "It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul,"
2 Sam 2:7 – Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be valiant, for Saul your lord is dead, and the house of Judah has anointed me king over them."
2 Sam 5:3 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD, and they anointed David king over Israel.
2 Sam 5:17 – When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went down to the stronghold.
2 Sam 12:7 – Nathan said to David, "You are the man! Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you out of the hand of Saul.
2 Sam 19:10 – But Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why do you say nothing about bringing the king back?"
1 Kgs 1:34 – And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet there anoint him king over Israel. Then blow the trumpet and say, 'Long live King Solomon!'
1 Kgs 19:15 – And the LORD said to him, "Go, return on your way to the wilderness of Damascus. And when you arrive, you shall anoint Hazael to be king over Syria.
1 Kgs 19:16 – And Jehu the son of Nimshi you shall anoint to be king over Israel, and Elisha the son of Shaphat of Abel-meholah you shall anoint to be prophet in your place.
1 Chr 11:3 – So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and David made a covenant with them at Hebron before the LORD. And they anointed David king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD by Samuel.
1 Chr 14:8 – When the Philistines heard that David had been anointed king over all Israel, all the Philistines went up to search for David. But David heard of it and went out against them.
In, among, בְּ
Ex 29:2 – and unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil. You shall make them of fine wheat flour.
Ex 30:26 – With it you shall anoint the tent of meeting and the ark of the testimony,
Lev 2:4 – "When you bring a grain offering baked in the oven as an offering, it shall be unleavened loaves of fine flour mixed with oil or unleavened wafers smeared with oil.
Lev 7:12 – If he offers it for a thanksgiving, then he shall offer with the thanksgiving sacrifice unleavened loaves mixed with oil, unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and loaves of fine flour well mixed with oil.
Num 6:15 – and a basket of unleavened bread, loaves of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers smeared with oil, and their grain offering and their drink offerings.
Num 35:25 – And the congregation shall rescue the manslayer from the hand of the avenger of blood, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he had fled, and he shall live in it until the death of the high priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
Jer 22:14 – who says, 'I will build myself a great house with spacious upper rooms,' who cuts out windows for it, paneling it with cedar and painting it with vermilion.
To, אֶל
2 Kgs 9:3 – Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.' Then open the door and flee; do not linger."
2 Kgs 9:6 – So he arose and went into the house. And the young man poured the oil on his head, saying to him, "Thus says the LORD the God of Israel, I anoint you king over the people of the LORD, over Israel.
2 Kgs 9:12 – And they said, "That is not true; tell us now." And he said, "Thus and so he spoke to me, saying, 'Thus says the LORD, I anoint you king over Israel.'"
[object marker], אֵת
Num 7:84 – This was the dedication offering for the altar on the day when it was anointed, from the chiefs of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes,
Out of, מִן
Num 7:84 – This was the dedication offering for the altar on the day when it was anointed, from the chiefs of Israel: twelve silver plates, twelve silver basins, twelve golden dishes,
Words related grammatically to “To anoint” (χρίω)
Subjects of "To anoint" (χρίω)
God, θεός
Acts 10:38 – how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Heb 1:9 – You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions."
Objects of "to anoint" (χρίω)
I/we, ἐγώ
Lk 4:18 – "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
2 Cor 1:21 – And it is God who establishes us with you in Christ, and has anointed us,
Which, ὅς, ἥ
Acts 4:27 – for truly in this city there were gathered together against your holy servant Jesus, whom you anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, along with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel,
He/she/it/self, αὐτός
Acts 10:38 – how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
You, σύ
Heb 1:9 – You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions."
Adverbs Modifying "To anoint" (χρίω)
To speak good news, εὐαγγελίζομαι
Lk 4:18 – "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
Spirit/breath, πνεῦμα
Acts 10:38 – how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and with power. He went about doing good and healing all who were oppressed by the devil, for God was with him.
Olive oil, ἔλαιον
Heb 1:9 – You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions."
Prepositions with "To anoint" (χρίω)
Because of, ἕνεκα, εἵνεκεν
Lk 4:18 – "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed,
Through/because of, διά
Heb 1:9 – You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions."
"To anoint" (χρίω) with Prepositions
From/with/beside, παρά
Heb 1:9 – You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you with the oil of gladness beyond your companions."
Words related grammatically to "anointing" (מִשְׁחָה)
Subjects of "Anointing" (מִשְׁחָה)
This, זׄאת
Lev 7:35 – This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the LORD's food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the LORD.
Verbs with "Anointing" (מִשְׁחָה) as Subject
Be, הָיָה
Ex 40:15 – and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations."
Appositions with "Anointing" (מִשְׁחָה)
Spice, רֹקַח
Ex 30:25 – And you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.
Prepositions with "Anointing" (מִשְׁחָה)
To, for, לְ
Ex 29:29 – "The holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him; they shall be anointed in them and ordained in them.
Num 18:8 – Then the LORD spoke to Aaron, "Behold, I have given you charge of the contributions made to me, all the consecrated things of the people of Israel. I have given them to you as a portion and to your sons as a perpetual due.
… of "Anointing" (מִשְׁחָה)
Oil, שֶׁמֶן
Ex 25:6 – oil for the lamps, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
Ex 29:7 – You shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.
Ex 29:21 – Then you shall take part of the blood that is on the altar, and of the anointing oil, and sprinkle it on Aaron and his garments, and on his sons and his sons' garments with him. He and his garments shall be holy, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.
Ex 30:25 – And you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.
Ex 30:31 – And you shall say to the people of Israel, 'This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.
Ex 31:11 – and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense for the Holy Place. According to all that I have commanded you, they shall do."
Ex 35:8 – oil for the light, spices for the anointing oil and for the fragrant incense,
Ex 35:15 – and the altar of incense, with its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;
Ex 35:28 – and spices and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the fragrant incense.
Ex 37:29 – He made the holy anointing oil also, and the pure fragrant incense, blended as by the perfumer.
Ex 39:38 – the golden altar, the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen for the entrance of the tent;
Ex 40:9 – "Then you shall take the anointing oil and anoint the tabernacle and all that is in it, and consecrate it and all its furniture, so that it may become holy.
Lev 8:2 – "Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments and the anointing oil and the bull of the sin offering and the two rams and the basket of unleavened bread.
Lev 8:10 – Then Moses took the anointing oil and anointed the tabernacle and all that was in it, and consecrated them.
Lev 8:12 – And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron's head and anointed him to consecrate him.
Lev 8:30 – Then Moses took some of the anointing oil and of the blood that was on the altar and sprinkled it on Aaron and his garments, and also on his sons and his sons' garments. So he consecrated Aaron and his garments, and his sons and his sons' garments with him.
Lev 10:7 – And do not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest you die, for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you." And they did according to the word of Moses.
Lev 21:10 – "The priest who is chief among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil is poured and who has been consecrated to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose nor tear his clothes.
Lev 21:12 – He shall not go out of the sanctuary, lest he profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am the LORD.
Num 4:16 – "And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall have charge of the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the regular grain offering, and the anointing oil, with the oversight of the whole tabernacle and all that is in it, of the sanctuary and its vessels."
"Anointing" (מִשְׁחָה) of …
Holiness, קֹדֶשׁ
Ex 30:25 – And you shall make of these a sacred anointing oil blended as by the perfumer; it shall be a holy anointing oil.
Ex 30:31 – And you shall say to the people of Israel, 'This shall be my holy anointing oil throughout your generations.
Them
Ex 40:15 – and anoint them, as you anointed their father, that they may serve me as priests. And their anointing shall admit them to a perpetual priesthood throughout their generations."
Aaron, אַהֲרֹון
Lev 7:35 – This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the LORD's food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the LORD.
Son, בֵּן
Lev 7:35 – This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the LORD's food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the LORD.
YHWH, יהוה
Lev 10:7 – And do not go outside the entrance of the tent of meeting, lest you die, for the anointing oil of the LORD is upon you." And they did according to the word of Moses.
God/god(s), אֱלֹהִים
Lev 21:12 – He shall not go out of the sanctuary, lest he profane the sanctuary of his God, for the consecration of the anointing oil of his God is on him: I am the LORD.
… and "Anointing" (מִשְׁחָה)
Anointing, מִשְׁחָה
Lev 7:35 – This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the LORD's food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the LORD.
"Anointing" (מִשְׁחָה) and …
Anointing, מִשְׁחָה
Lev 7:35 – This is the portion of Aaron and of his sons from the LORD's food offerings, from the day they were presented to serve as priests of the LORD.
