53 Bible Verses about Color

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Genesis 30:39

And because of this, the flock gave birth to young which were marked with bands of colour.

Ephesians 5:13

But all things, when their true quality is seen, are made clear by the light: because everything which is made clear is light.

Ezekiel 1:28

Like the bow in the cloud on a day of rain, so was the light shining round him. And this is what the glory of the Lord was like. And when I saw it I went down on my face, and the voice of one talking came to my ears.

Revelation 17:4

And the woman was clothed in purple and bright red, with ornaments of gold and stones of great price and jewels; and in her hand was a gold cup full of evil things and her unclean desires;

Genesis 25:25

And the first came out red from head to foot like a robe of hair, and they gave him the name of Esau.

Ezekiel 8:2

And looking, I saw a form like fire; from the middle of his body and down there was fire: and up from the middle of his body a sort of shining, like electrum.

Revelation 4:3

And to my eyes he was like a jasper and a sardius stone: and there was an arch of light round the high seat, like an emerald.

Jeremiah 13:23

Is it possible for the skin of the Ethiopian to be changed, or the markings on the leopard? Then it might be possible for you to do good, who have been trained to do evil.

Ezekiel 16:16

And you took your robes and made high places for yourself ornamented with every colour, acting like a loose woman on them, without shame or fear.

Proverbs 23:31

Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:

Genesis 30:32

Let me go through all your flock today, taking out from among them all the sheep which are marked or coloured or black, and all the marked or coloured goats: these will be my payment.

Genesis 37:32

And they took the coat to their father, and said, We came across this; is it your son's coat or not?

Revelation 1:15

And his feet like polished brass, as if it had been burned in a fire; and his voice was as the sound of great waters.

Genesis 37:3

Now the love which Israel had for Joseph was greater than his love for all his other children, because he got him when he was an old man: and he had a long coat made for him.

Matthew 5:36

You may not take an oath by your head, because you are not able to make one hair white or black.

1 Chronicles 29:2

Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.

Job 30:30

My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.

Ezekiel 1:7

And their feet were straight feet; and the under sides of their feet were like the feet of oxen; and they were shining like polished brass.

Numbers 11:7

Now the manna was like a seed of grain, like small clear drops.

Ezekiel 27:24

These were your traders in beautiful robes, in rolls of blue and needlework, and in chests of coloured cloth, corded with cords and made of cedar-wood, in them they did trade with you.

Ezekiel 1:16

The form of the wheels and their work was like a beryl; the four of them had the same form and design, and they were like a wheel inside a wheel.

Song of Solomon 1:6

Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.

Song of Solomon 1:5

I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

Daniel 10:6

And his body was like the beryl, and his face had the look of a thunder-flame, and his eyes were like burning lights, and his arms and feet like the colour of polished brass, and the sound of his voice was like the sound of an army.

Daniel 7:28

Here is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel, I was greatly troubled by my thoughts, and the colour went from my face: but I kept the thing in my heart.

Genesis 37:31

Then they took Joseph's coat, and put on it some of the blood from a young goat which they had put to death,

Isaiah 63:2

Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes?

Matthew 16:2

But in answer he said to them, At nightfall you say, The weather will be good, for the sky is red.

Genesis 37:23

So when Joseph came to his brothers, they took off his long coat which he had on;

Ezekiel 1:4

And, looking, I saw a storm-wind coming out of the north, a great cloud with flames of fire coming after one another, and a bright light shining round about it and in the heart of it was something coloured like electrum.

Revelation 21:19

The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

Ezekiel 17:3

And say, This is what the Lord has said: A great eagle with great wings, full of long feathers of different colours, came to Lebanon, and took the top of the cedar:

Numbers 15:38

Say to the children of Israel that through all their generations they are to put on the edges of their robes an ornament of twisted threads, and in every ornament a blue cord;

Nahum 2:3

The body-covers of his fighting men have been made red, the men of war are clothed in bright red: the war-carriages are like flames of fire in the day when he gets ready, the horses are shaking.

Song of Solomon 5:11

His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven.

Revelation 7:9

After these things I saw a great army of people more than might be numbered, out of every nation and of all tribes and peoples and languages, taking their places before the high seat and before the Lamb, dressed in white robes, and with branches in their hands,

Revelation 21:21

And the twelve doors were twelve pearls; every door was made of one pearl; and the street of the town was clear gold, as clear as glass.

Revelation 17:3

And he took me away in the Spirit into a waste land: and I saw a woman seated on a bright red beast, full of evil names, having seven heads and ten horns,

Psalm 45:14

She will come before the king in robes of needlework; the virgins in her train will come before you.

Acts 27:30

Then the sailors made attempts secretly to get away from the ship, letting down a boat as if they were about to put down hooks from the front of the ship;

Leviticus 13:30

Then the priest is to see the diseased place: and if it seems to go deeper than the skin, and if there is thin yellow hair in it, then the priest will say that he is unclean: he has the mark of the leper's disease on his head or in the hair of his chin.

Ezekiel 1:26

And on the top of the arch which was over their heads was the form of a king's seat, like a sapphire stone; and on the form of the seat was the form of a man seated on it on high.

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Zechariah 1:8

I saw in the night a man on a red horse, between the mountains in the valley, and at his back were horses, red, black, white, and of mixed colours.

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Jeremiah 22:14

Who says, I will make a wide house for myself, and rooms of great size, and has windows cut out, and has it roofed with cedar and painted with bright red.

Ezekiel 23:14

And her loose behaviour became worse; for she saw men pictured on a wall, pictures of the Chaldaeans painted in bright red

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Colors, Black

Jude 1:13

Violent waves of the sea, streaming with their shame, wandering stars for whom the darkest night is kept in store for ever.

Colors, Blue

Exodus 28:31

The robe which goes with the ephod is to be made all of blue;

Colors, Green

Jeremiah 11:16

You had been named by the Lord, A branching olive-tree, fair with beautiful fruit: with the noise of a great rushing he has put it on fire and its branches are broken.

Colors, Purple

Judges 8:26

The weight of the gold ear-rings which he got from them was one thousand, seven hundred shekels of gold; in addition to the moon-ornaments and jewels and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and the chains on their camels' necks.

Colors, Scarlet

2 Samuel 1:24

O daughters of Israel, have sorrow for Saul, by whom you were delicately clothed in robes of red, with ornaments of gold on your dresses.

Colors, White

Daniel 7:9

I went on looking till the seats of kings were placed, and one like a very old man took his seat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head was like clean wool; his seat was flames of fire and its wheels burning fire.

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