15 Bible Verses about Anointing Oil

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Exodus 40:9

And take the holy oil and put it on the House and everything in it, and make it and everything in it holy:

1 John 2:27

As for you, the Spirit which he gave you is still in you, and you have no need of any teacher; but as his Spirit gives you teaching about all things, and is true and not false, so keep your hearts in him, through the teaching which he has given you.

Exodus 30:22-25

And the Lord said to Moses, Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus, And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin:read more.
And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy oil.

Hebrews 1:9

You have been a lover of righteousness and a hater of evil; and so God, your God, has put the oil of joy on your head more than on the heads of those who are with you.

1 Samuel 10:1

Then Samuel took the bottle of oil, and put the oil on his head and gave him a kiss and said, Is not the Lord with the holy oil making you ruler over Israel, his people? and you will have authority over the people of the Lord, and you will make them safe from the hands of their attackers round about them, and this will be the sign for you:

Psalm 23:1-6

The Lord takes care of me as his sheep; I will not be without any good thing.

Psalm 133:1-3

See how good and how pleasing it is for brothers to be living together in harmony!

Genesis 28:18

And early in the morning Jacob took the stone which had been under his head, and put it up as a pillar and put oil on it.

Luke 7:46

You put no oil on my head: but she has put perfume on my feet.

1 Samuel 6:19

But the Lord sent destruction on seventy men of the people of Beth-shemesh for looking into the ark of the Lord; and great was the sorrow of the people for the destruction which the Lord had sent on them.

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Exodus 30:22-25

And the Lord said to Moses, Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus, And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin: read more.
And make these into a holy oil, a perfume made by the art of the perfume-maker; it is to be a holy oil.

Exodus 30:31-33

And say to the children of Israel, This is to be the Lord's holy oil, from generation to generation. It is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is to be made like it: holy it is, and you are to keep it holy. Whoever makes any like it, or puts it on one who is not a priest, will be cut off from his people.

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