23 Bible Verses about Creativity

And now, O Jehovah, thou our Father; we the clay and thou forming us; and we all the work of thy hand.

And Jehovah will answer Job from the whirlwind, and he will say, Who this darkening counsel in words without knowledge? Gird now thy loins as a man; and I will ask thee, and make thou known to me.read more.
Where wort thou in my founding the earth? Announce, if thou knewest understanding. Who set its measures, if thou shalt know? or who stretched the line upon it? Upon what were its bases impressed? or who placed its corner-stone? In the rejoicing together of the stars of morning, and all the sons of God will shout for joy? And he will hedge in the sea with doors in its breaking forth, going forth from the womb. In my making the cloud its garment, and darkness its bandage: And I shall break upon it my law, and I shall set bars and doors; And saying, Even to this shalt thou come, and thou shalt not add: and here in the pride of thy waves, stand thou. In thy days didst thou command the morning? and didst thou make the dawning know its place? To take hold upon the wings of the earth, and the unjust shall be shaken out of it? It shall be turned as clay to the seal; and they shall stand as clothing. And their light shall be withheld from the unjust, and the high arm shall be broken. Didst thou go even to the fountains of the sea? and didst thou go about in searching the depth? Were the gates of death uncovered to thee? and shalt thou see the gates of the shadow of death? Wilt thou consider even to the breadth of the earth? Announce if thou knewest all of it Where the way light shall dwell? and darkness, where its place? That thou shalt take it to its bound, and that thou shalt understand the beaten paths of its house? Knewest thou? for shalt thou then be born, and the number of thy days great? Didst thou come into the treasures of snow? and shalt thou see the treasures of hail, Which I kept back for the time of straits, for the day of encounter and war? Where that way the light will divide, it will scatter the east wind upon the earth? Who divided a channel for the overflowing, and a way for the lightning of the voices? To cause it to rain upon the earth, not a man; the wilderness not a man in it? To satisfy the desolation and burning, and to cause the springing up of the finding of the tender grass? Is there a father to the rain? or who begat the reservoirs of the dew? From whose womb came forth the ice? and the hoarfrost of the heavens, who brought it forth? The waters shall be hid as a stone, and the face of the depth will be taken. Wilt thou bind the bands of the cluster, or wilt thou open the cords of Orion? Wilt thou bring forth the twelve signs in its time? and the great bear and his sons, wilt thou guide them? Knewest thou the laws of the heavens? or wilt thou set up its dominion in the earth? Wilt thou lift up thy voice to the cloud, and abundance of waters shall cover thee? Shalt thou send lightnings, and shall they go and shall they say to thee, Behold us? Who put wisdom in the reins? or who gave understanding to the mind? Who shall number the clouds in wisdom? and who shall cause the bottles of heaven to lie down? In the pouring out of the dust into a melted mass, and the clods will adhere Wilt thou hunt the prey for the lion? and wilt thou fill up the life of the young lions? For they will sink down in the dwellings; they will dwell in the thicket to lie in wait Who will prepare for the raven his food? for his young will cry to God; they will wander without food.

For thou didst possess my reins: thou wilt cover me in my mother's womb. I will praise thee; for I was wonderfully distinguished: thy works are wonders, and my soul knew greatly. My bones were not hid from thee, when I was made in secret. I was variegated in the lower parts of the earth.read more.
Thine eyes saw my substance unformed; and upon thy book all of them shall be written; the days they were formed, and not one in them.

I shall form light and create darkness: making peace and creating evil: I Jehovah doing all these. Drop, ye heavens, from above, and the clouds shall shake out justice: the earth shall open, and they shall bring forth salvation, and justice shall spring up together; I Jehovah created it Wo to him striving with him forming him! the potsherd with the potsherds of the earth. Shall the clay say to him forming it, What wilt thou make? and thy work, No hands to it?read more.
Wo to him saying to the father, What wilt thou beget? and to the woman, What wilt thou bring forth? Thus said Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, and his potter, Ask me of things coming concerning the sons, and concerning the work of my hands will ye command me? I made the earth, and man upon it I created: my hand stretched forth the heavens, and all their army I commanded.

For we are his work, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.,

And Moses will say to the sons of Israel, See, Jehovah called by name Bezaleel, the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. And he will fill him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work; And to invent works of skill, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,read more.
And in working stone for filling in, and in working wood, to work in all work of works of skill. He gave in his heart to teach, he and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan. He filled them with wisdom of heart, to do all the work of engraving, of inventing, and variegating in cerulean purple, and in red purple, and in double scarlet, and in byssus, and of weaving, and of those doing all work, and of those devising works of skill.

And Jehovah will speak to Moses, Saying, See, I called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah. And I will fill him with the spirit of God, in wisdom and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all work.read more.
To meditate work of skill, to work in gold and in silver and in brass. And in graving stone for filling up, and in graving wood, to work in all work. And I, behold, I gave him Aholiab, son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all the wise of heart I gave wisdom; and they shall make all which I commanded thee:

And Bezaleel made, and Aholiab, and every man wise of heart, to whom Jehovah gave wisdom and unstanding in them to know to do all the work of service of the holy place according to all which Jehovah commanded. And Moses will call to Bezaleel and to Aholiab, and to every man wise of heart, to whom Jehovah gave wisdom in his heart, every one who lifted up his heart to draw near to the work to do it:

And all the wise of heart will work in doing the work of the temple: ten curtains of twisted byssus and cerulean purple, and red purple, and double scarlet; Cherubs a skilful work he made them.

And with thee for abundance, they doing the work, hewers and workmen of stone and wood, and all the wise for all the work To gold, to silver, and to brass, and to iron, no number. Arise and do, and Jehovah will be with thee.

And the house that I build is great: for great our God above all gods. For who shall retain power to build for him a house? for the heavens and the heavens of the heavens shall not contain him: and who am I who shall build to him a house but to burn incense before him? And now send to me a man wise to work in gold and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, and in purple, and crimson, and cerulean purple, and knowing to engrave engravings with the wise which are with me in Judah and in Jerusalem, which David my father prepared.

They shall praise his name in the dance, and they shall play to him upon the drum and harp.

And these whom David set up over the hands of song of the house of Jehovah from the resting of the ark And they will be serving before the dwelling of the tent of appointment in song even till Solomon built the house of Jehovah in Jerusalem: and they will stand according to their judgment over their service.

And David will separate, and the chiefs of the army, for service to the sons of Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, prophesying with harps, with lyres and with cymbals: and there will be their number of men of work for their service. To the sons of Asaph: Zaccur and Joseph, and Nethaniah, and Asarelah, sons of Asaph upon the hand of Asaph prophesying upon the hands of the king. To Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, upon the hands of their father Jeduthun, with the harp prophesying for confessing and praising to Jehovah.read more.
To Heman: the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamtiezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth. All these the sons to Heman the king's seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God will give to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters. All these upon the hands of their father in the song of the house of Jehovah, with cymbals, lyres and harps, for the service of the house of God, upon the hands of the king, Asaph and Jeduthun and Heman. And their number will be with their brethren teaching the song to Jehovah, all having understanding, two hundred eighty and eight

Chanting a song to the day of Sabbath. It is good to confess to Jehovah, to play on the harp to thy name, O Most High. To announce in the morning thy mercy, and thy faithfulness in the night. Upon a ten stringed instrument, and upon the lyre; with the murmurs upon the harp.

Play to Jehovah on the harp, on the harp and the voice of music.

O God, a new song will I sing to thee; with an instrument of ten strings, I will play on the harp to thee.

What profited the carved image that he forming it carved it? the molten image and he teaching falsehood, that the former of his forming trusted upon it to make nothings being dumb?

Cursed the man, who shall make a graven and molten thing, an abomination of Jehovah, the work of the hand of the artificer, and put it in hiding: and all the people answered and said, Amen.

And they gave their gods into fire, for they were not gods, but the work of the hands of man, wood and stone: and they will destroy them.

The artificer cast the carved image, and the founder will spread it out with gold, and he smelted chains of silver. And he being poor of oblation will choose wood that will not be rotten; he will seek to him a wise artificer to prepare a carved image that will not shake.

Who formed a god and a carved molten image, profiting for nothing? Behold, all his associates shall be ashamed: and the workmen, they from man, they shall be gathered together, all of them; they shall stand, they shall tremble, they shall be ashamed together. The workman of iron with an axe also worked with coal, and he will cleave it with hammers, and will work with the arm of his strength: also he hungered and no strength: he drank not water and was wearied.read more.
The workman of woods stretched out the line; he will delineate it with an awl, he will do it with chisels, and he will delineate it with a compass, and he will make it according to the image of a man, according to the beauty of man; to dwell in the house

And in that time was there no little trouble about the way. For a certain Demetrius by name, a silversmith, making the silver temples of Diana, furnished no little work to artificers; Whom having collected together and the workmen of such things, he said, Men, ye know that out of this work is our good food.read more.
And ye see and hear that not only Ephesus, but almost all Asia, this Paul having persuaded, changed a sufficient crowd, saying, that they are not gods made by hands: