53 Bible Verses about Color
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The flocks bred in front of the branches and bore streaked, speckled, and spotted young.
Everything exposed by the light is made clear,
The appearance of the brilliant light all around was like that of a rainbow in a cloud on a rainy day. This was the appearance of the form of the Lord’s glory. When I saw it, I fell facedown and heard a voice speaking.
The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls. She had a gold cup in her hand filled with everything vile and with the impurities of her prostitution.
The first one came out red-looking, covered with hair like a fur coat, and they named him Esau.
“Come, let us discuss this,”
says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
they will be as white as snow;
though they are as red as crimson,
they will be like wool.
I looked, and there was a form that had the appearance of a man. From what seemed to be His waist down was fire, and from His waist up was something that looked bright, like the gleam of amber.
and the One seated looked like jasper and carnelian stone. A rainbow that looked like an emerald surrounded the throne.
Can the Cushite change his skin,
or a leopard his spots?
If so, you might be able to do what is good,
you who are instructed in evil.
You took some of your garments and made colorful high places for yourself, and you engaged in prostitution on them. These places should not have been built, and this should never have happened!
Don’t gaze at wine because it is red,
when it gleams in the cup
and goes down smoothly.
Let me go through all your sheep today and remove every sheep that is speckled or spotted, every dark-colored sheep among the lambs, and the spotted and speckled among the female goats. Such will be my wages.
They sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it. Is it your son’s robe or not?”
His feet were like fine bronze as it is fired in a furnace, and His voice like the sound of cascading waters.
Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons because Joseph was a son born to him in his old age, and he made a robe of many colors for him.
Neither should you swear by your head, because you cannot make a single hair white or black.
So to the best of my ability I’ve made provision for the house of my God: gold for the gold articles, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx, stones for mounting, antimony, stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and a great quantity of marble.
My skin blackens and flakes off,
and my bones burn with fever.
Their legs were straight, and the soles of their feet were like the hooves of a calf, sparkling like the gleam of polished bronze.
The manna resembled coriander seed, and its appearance was like that of bdellium.
They were your merchants in choice garments, cloaks of blue and embroidered materials, and multicolored carpets, which were bound and secured with cords in your marketplace.
His head and hair were white like wool—white as snow—and His eyes like a fiery flame.
The appearance of the wheels and their craftsmanship was like the gleam of beryl, and all four had the same form. Their appearance and craftsmanship was like a wheel within a wheel.
Do not stare at me because I am dark,
for the sun has gazed on me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me;
they made me a keeper of the vineyards.
I have not kept my own vineyard.
Daughters of Jerusalem,
I am dark like the tents of Kedar,
yet lovely like the curtains of Solomon.
His body was like topaz, his face like the brilliance of lightning, his eyes like flaming torches, his arms and feet like the gleam of polished bronze, and the sound of his words like the sound of a multitude.
“This is the end of the interpretation. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts terrified me greatly, and my face turned pale, but I kept the matter to myself.”
So they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
Why are Your clothes red,
and Your garments like one who treads a winepress?
He answered them: “When evening comes you say, ‘It will be good weather because the sky is red.’
When Joseph came to his brothers, they stripped off his robe, the robe of many colors that he had on.
I looked and there was a whirlwind coming from the north, a great cloud with fire flashing back and forth and brilliant light all around it. In the center of the fire, there was a gleam like amber.
The foundations of the city wall were adorned with every kind of precious stone:
the first foundation jasper,
the second sapphire,
the third chalcedony,
the fourth emerald,
You are to say: This is what the Lord God says:
A great eagle with great wings, long pinions,
and full plumage of many colors
came to Lebanon and took the top of the cedar.
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them that throughout their generations they are to make tassels for the corners of their garments, and put a blue cord on the tassel at each corner.
The shields of his warriors are dyed red;
the valiant men are dressed in scarlet.
The fittings of the chariot flash like fire
on the day of its battle preparations,
and the spears are brandished.
Can any of you add a single cubit to his height by worrying?
After this I looked, and there was a vast multitude from every nation, tribe, people, and language, which no one could number, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were robed in white with palm branches in their hands.
The 12 gates are 12 pearls; each individual gate was made of a single pearl. The broad street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.
So he carried me away in the Spirit to a desert. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and 10 horns.
In colorful garments she is led to the king;
after her, the virgins, her companions, are brought to you.
Some sailors tried to escape from the ship; they had let down the skiff into the sea, pretending that they were going to put out anchors from the bow.
The sun will be turned to darkness
and the moon to blood
before the great and remarkable Day of the Lord comes.
the priest must examine the infection. If it appears to be deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and sparse, the priest must pronounce the person unclean. It is a scaly outbreak, a skin disease of the head or chin.
The shape of a throne with the appearance of sapphire stone was above the expanse. There was a form with the appearance of a human on the throne high above.
From Thematic Bible
Sorrel » Color
I looked out in the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the valley. Behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
Vermilion » Color
with spacious upper rooms.”
He will cut windows
and it will be paneled with cedar
and painted with vermilion.
But she increased her promiscuity when she saw male figures carved on the wall,
Topics on Color
Colors, Black
Jude 1:13wild waves of the sea, foaming up their shameful deeds; wandering stars
Colors, Blue
Exodus 28:31“You
Colors, Purple
Judges 8:26The weight of the gold earrings he requested was about 43 pounds
Colors, Scarlet
2 Samuel 1:24
who clothed you in scarlet, with luxurious things,
who decked your garments with gold ornaments.
Colors, White
Daniel 7:9“As I kept watching,
and the Ancient of Days took His seat.
His clothing was white like snow,
and the hair of His head like whitest wool.
His throne was flaming fire;
its wheels were blazing fire.