25 Bible Verses about Small Things

On that day the king designated the courtyard in front of Jehovah's Temple as a holy place. He sacrificed the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat from the fellowship offerings because the copper altar in front of Jehovah was too small to hold all of them.

The group of prophets Elisha was in charge of complained to him: The place where we live is too small!

There is a small village nearby. Please let me go there instead. Do you see how small it is? Then my life will be saved.

Run there quickly! I cannot do anything until you get there. The city is named Zoar [Small].

Saul replied: I am a man from the tribe of Benjamin. It is the smallest tribe of Israel. My family is the most insignificant of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin. Why are you saying such things to me?

Edom, I will make you the smallest of nations and despised among humanity.

The seventh time he said: I see a cloud coming up out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. Then Elijah said: Go up and say to Ahab, Get your carriage ready and go down or the rain will keep you back.

Every tree in the forest will know that I, Jehovah, can bring down tall trees and help short ones grow. I dry up green trees and make dry ones green. I, Jehovah, have spoken, and I will keep my word.'

The plant sprouted and grew into a low vine that spread over the ground. Its branches turned upward toward the eagle. Its roots grew downward. Thus it became a vine, producing branches and growing shoots.

You say: When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit.

You Bethlehem Ephrathah who are little to be among the thousands of Judah. Out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel! His origin is from of old, from everlasting (days of antiquity) (ancient times).

Mustard seed is the smallest of all seeds. Yet when it grows it becomes as large as a tree. In fact the birds of heaven lodge in the branches.

It is like a grain of mustard seed. When it is planted in the earth it is smaller than all the seeds on the earth.

He told them: It was because of your lack of faith: Truly I say to you, if you have faith as small as a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, move and it will move. Nothing will be impossible to you.

He answered: If your faith was as big as a mustard seed; you could say to this mulberry tree, uproot yourself and plant yourself in the sea and it would obey you!

It is like this. A man plants a mustard seed in his field. The plant grows and becomes a tree. The birds make their nests in its branches.

After the dew had gone, the desert was covered with thin flakes that looked like frost.

The bed is too short on which to stretch out, and the cover so narrow that one cannot wrap himself in it.

Look at ships. They are large and are driven by rough winds. Yet a very small rudder can control them, wherever the captain wills.

The tongue also is a little member. It boasts great things. Consider how great a forest fire a small fire kindles!

Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye? Do you not consider the beam in your own eye? Will you tell your brother, 'I will remove the speck from your eye' when there is a beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye. Then you can see to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

I solemnly tell you, heaven and earth would pass away before one small letter (detail) will pass away from the Law. All things must be accomplished.

It is easier for heaven and earth to disappear than for the smallest detail of the Law to be eliminated.

For who has despised the day of small things? For these seven will rejoice, and will see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel. These are the eyes of Jehovah, which run to and fro through the whole earth.