171 Bible Verses about Things

Most Relevant Verses

1 Corinthians 2:10-14

But God has revealed those things to us by his Spirit. For the Spirit searches everything, even the deep things of God. Is there anyone who can understand his own thoughts except his own inner spirit? In the same way, no one can know the thoughts of God except God's Spirit. Now, we have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who comes from God, so that we can understand the things that were freely given to us by God. read more.
We don't speak about these things with words taught us by human wisdom, but with words taught by the Spirit, as we explain spiritual things to spiritual people. A person who isn't spiritual doesn't accept the things of God's Spirit, for they are nonsense to him. He can't understand them because they are spiritually evaluated.

From Thematic Bible


Great » Mysteries, that test the faith of men » Things

Mark 5:19

But Jesus wouldn't let him. Instead, he told him, "Go home to your family, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you and how merciful he has been to you."

Mark 3:8

Jerusalem, Idumea, from across the Jordan, and from the region around Tyre and Sidon followed him. They came to him because they kept hearing about everything he was doing.

Deuteronomy 10:21

He is the one you are to praise, because he is, your God who carried out those great and awesome things for you that you witnessed.

More verses: Psalm 126:2

New » Man » Things

Isaiah 43:19

Watch! I'm about to carry out something new! And now it's springing up don't you recognize it? I'm making a way in the wilderness and paths in the desert.

Isaiah 42:9

See, the former things have taken place, and I'm announcing the new things before they spring into being I'm telling you about them."

Isaiah 48:6

"You have heard now look at them all! How can you not admit them? From now on, I'll make you hear new things, hidden things that you have not known.

More verses: Revelation 21:5

Topics on Things

Abandoning Things

Ecclesiastes 3:6

a time to search, and a time to give up searching; a time to keep, and a time to discard;

Abolish, Temporary Things

2 Corinthians 3:13

not like Moses, who kept covering his face with a veil to keep the people of Israel from gazing at the end of what was fading away.

Abounding, Good Things

Romans 5:15

But God's free gift is not like Adam's offense. For if many people died as the result of one man's offense, how much more have God's grace and the free gift given through the kindness of one man, Jesus the Messiah, been showered on many people!

Abuse, Of Spiritual Things

Numbers 20:10

Then Moses and Aaron gathered the community together in front of the rock. "Pay attention, you rebels!" Moses told them. "Are we to bring you water from this rock?"

According To Things

Leviticus 27:16

"If a person consecrates to the LORD a portion of the field from his inheritance, then your valuation is to be based on its capacity for yielding a harvest. Each omer of barley is to be valued at 50 shekels of silver.

Anointing Things

Genesis 28:18

When Jacob got up early the next morning, he took the stone that he had used for his pillow, set it up as a pillar, drenched it with oil,

Back Of Things

Exodus 26:12

As for the excess that remains of the curtains of the tent the half curtain that remains is to hang over the back of the tent.

Base Of Things

Exodus 29:12

Take some of the blood of the bull, put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and pour out the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

Big Things

Ezekiel 24:9

"Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: "How terrible it is for that blood-filled city I'm also going to add to my pile of kindling.

Broken Things

Acts 27:41

But they struck a sandbar and ran the ship aground. The bow stuck and couldn't be moved, while the stern was broken to pieces by the force of the waves.

Burning Idolatrous Things

Exodus 32:20

He took the calf that they had made, burned it with fire, and ground it into powder. He scattered it on the water and made the Israelis drink it.

Camps, Unclean Things

Leviticus 13:46

The whole time that the skin rash infects him, he will be unclean. He is to live by himself in a home outside the encampment."

Carrying Holy Things

Numbers 10:21

Then the descendants of Kohath, carrying the sanctuary, set out, since the tent was to be set up before they arrive.

Choosing Things

2 Samuel 24:12

"Go tell David, "This is what the LORD says: "I'm holding three choices out for you: pick one of them for yourself, and I will do it to you."'"

Christ Concealing Things

Mark 1:34

He healed many who were sick with various diseases and drove out many demons. However, he wouldn't allow the demons to speak because they knew who he was.

Christ Knowing All Things

John 16:30

Now we know that you know everything and don't need to have anyone ask you any questions. Because of this, we believe that you have come from God."

Clothed With Good Things

Psalm 132:16

I will clothe its priests with salvation and its godly ones will shout for joy.

Different Things

John 21:25

Of course, Jesus also did many other things, and I suppose that if every one of them were written down, the world couldn't contain the books that would be written.

Discerning God's Things

Deuteronomy 18:21

Now you may ask yourselves, "How will we be able to discern that the LORD has not spoken?'

Dividing Into Three Things

Deuteronomy 19:3

Build roads throughout the land that the LORD your God is providing as an inheritance, and then divide it into three districts so that any killer may flee there.

Doing Things Twice

Deuteronomy 24:20

When you harvest the olives from your trees, don't go back to the branches a second time. What remains is for the foreigner, the orphan, or the widow.

Edge Of Other Things

1 Kings 7:26

The reservoir, which held about 2,000 baths, stood about a handbreadth thick, and its rim looked like the brim of a cup or of a lily blossom.

Eight Things

Exodus 26:25

There is to be eight boards with their sixteen silver sockets, two sockets under one board and two sockets under the next board.

Empty Things

1 Samuel 6:3

They said, "If you send the Ark of the God of Israel back, don't send it empty, but rather be sure to send back to him a guilt offering. Then you will be healed and will know why his oppression has not been removed from you."

Enjoyment, Material Things

Deuteronomy 20:6

And is there a man here who has planted a vineyard and not yet benefited from it? Let him go home. Otherwise, he may die in battle and another man use it.

Escaping, Spiritual Things

Genesis 39:10-12

She kept on talking to him like this day after day, but he wouldn't listen to her. Not only would he refuse to have sex with her, he refused even to stay around her.

Fear Of Other Things

Genesis 42:4

Jacob would not send Joseph's brother Benjamin to accompany them, because he was saying, "I'm afraid that he'll come to some kind of harm."

Five Things

Joshua 10:26

After this, Joshua struck those kings down, executing them, and hanged them on five gallows until sunset.

For The Sake Of Things

Psalm 122:9

For the sake of the Temple of the LORD our God, I will seek your welfare. A Song of Ascents

Foreign Things

Genesis 35:2

Jacob announced to his household and to everyone with him, "Throw away the foreign gods that you've kept among you, purify yourselves, and change your clothes.

Forgetting Things

Genesis 27:45

After that happens and he has forgotten what you've done to him, I'll send for you so you can return from there. Why should I be bereaved of you both in one day?"

Forsaking God's Things

2 Chronicles 24:18

They abandoned the LORD's Temple and the God of their fathers, and they served Asherim and idols. As a result this guilt of theirs resulted in wrath coming upon Judah and Jerusalem.

Four Other Things

Exodus 28:17

You are to mount on it a setting for four rows of stones. The first row is to contain carnelian, topaz, and emerald;

God Drying Things Up

Joshua 2:10

because we heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Reed Sea right in front of you as you were coming out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the other side of the Jordan River to Sihon and Og whom you completely destroyed.

God Hating Things

Proverbs 6:16-19

Here are six things that the LORD hates seven, in fact, are detestable to him:

God's Things Concealed

Genesis 18:17

"Should I hide from Abraham what I'm about to do," the LORD asked,

God's Things Revealed

Judges 13:23

But his wife replied to him, "If the LORD had intended to kill us, he wouldn't have accepted a burnt offering and a grain offering from us, he wouldn't have shown us all these things, and he wouldn't have permitted us to hear things like this, now would he?"

Great Things

Exodus 18:22

They are to judge the people at all times. Let them bring every major matter to you, but let them judge every minor matter. It will lighten your burden, and they'll bear it with you.

Half Of Things

Genesis 24:22

When the camels had finished drinking, the man took out a gold nose ring weighing a half shekel and two bracelets for her wrists, weighing 10 shekels and presented them to her.

Hearing Things

Ezekiel 33:4

then if anyone who hears the sound of the alarm does not heed the warning, when the sword arrives and destroys him, his shed blood will remain his own responsibility.

Hidden Things

Genesis 35:4

So they handed over to Jacob all their foreign gods on which they had been depending, along with the rings that they were wearing on their ears. Jacob buried them under the oak that grew near Shechem.

Hot Things

Daniel 3:19

Out of control with rage, Nebuchadnezzar's facial expression changed toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and he ordered that the furnace be heated seven times hotter than usual.

Joining Things

Genesis 37:7

"We were tying sheaves together out in the middle of the fields, when all of a sudden, my sheaf stood up erect! And then your sheaves gathered around it and bowed down to my sheaf!"

Kinds Of Living Things

Ezekiel 47:10

A day will come when fishermen will line its banks from En-gedi to En-eglaim there will be plenty of room to spread out nets. There will be all sorts of species of fish, as abundant as the fish that live in the Mediterranean Sea. There will be lots of them!

Last Things

Job 30:23

I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."

Likening Things

Lamentations 2:13

What can be said about you? To what should you be compared, fair Jerusalem? To what may I liken you, so I may comfort you, fair one of Zion? Indeed, your wound is as deep as the sea who can heal you?

Living Things

Genesis 1:21

So God created every kind of magnificent marine creature, every kind of living marine crawler with which the waters swarmed, and every kind of flying creature. And God saw how good it was.

Loving God's Things

Psalm 40:16

Let all who seek you shout for joy and be glad in you. May those who love your deliverance say, "The LORD be magnified!" continuously.

Loving Other Things

Genesis 27:4

Then prepare some food, just the way I like it, and bring it to me so that I can eat and bless you before I die."

Moist Things

Luke 8:6

Others fell on stony ground, and as soon as they came up, they dried up because they had no moisture.

Narrow Things

Leviticus 13:30

if when the priest examines the skin rash and indeed it appears more extensive than skin deep, and it's accompanied by fine, yellowish hair, then the priest is to declare him unclean. The scales on the head or the beard are an infectious skin disease.

Not Like Things

Luke 5:36

Then he told them a parable: "No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old garment. If he does, the new cloth will tear, and the piece from the new won't match the old.

Not Seeing Spiritual Things

Daniel 10:7

"Now I, Daniel, was the only one to receive the vision the men who were with me didn't see it. However, an enormous fear overwhelmed them, so they ran away to hide,

Not Understanding God's Things

Micah 4:12

But they don't know the thoughts of the LORD, and they don't understand his tactics, for he will gather them like harvested grain to his threshing floor.

Old Things

Leviticus 26:10

When you have consumed what was stored of the old, then you'll take out the old and replace it with what's new.

People Drying Things Up

2 Kings 3:19

Then you are to attack every fortified city and every significant city. Cut down every significant tree, fill in all of the water springs, and ruin every prime piece of land with stones."

People Giving Other Things

Matthew 25:28

Then the master said, "Take the talent from him and give it to the man who has the ten talents,

People Naming Things

Genesis 2:19-20

After the LORD God formed from the ground every wild animal and every bird that flies, he brought each of them to the man to see what he would call it. Whatever the man called each living creature became its name.

People Possessing Other Things

Genesis 23:17-18

That's how Ephron's field in Machpelah, east of Mamre the field, the cave that was in it, and all the trees that were within the boundaries of the field came to be deeded

Persons With Things

Exodus 22:15

If its owner was with it, he is not to make restitution. If it was hired, its fee covers the loss."

Pulling Things

2 Samuel 17:13

If he escapes into a city, we'll bring ropes to that city and tear it down! We won't leave a single stone left in the valley!"

Putting Things Down

Ezekiel 21:26

This is what the Lord GOD says: "Remove your turban! Take off your crown! Things aren't going to remain as they used to be. What is lowly will be exalted, and what is lofty will be brought low.

Recognising Things

Genesis 38:26

When Judah recognized them, he admitted, "She is more upright than I, because I never did give her my son Shelah." And he never had sex with her again.

Restoring Things

Genesis 14:16

He recovered all the goods and brought back his nephew Lot, together with his possessions, the women, and the other people.

Salvation By Other Things

2 Kings 18:33

"But don't listen to Hezekiah when he misleads you by saying, "The LORD will deliver us!" Has any of the gods of the nations delivered his land from control by the king of Assyria?

Sealing Things

Matthew 27:66

So they went and secured the tomb by putting a seal on the stone in the presence of the guards.

Secret Things

Luke 8:17

There is nothing hidden that won't be revealed, and there is nothing secret that won't become known and come to light.

Seeking For Abstract Things

Proverbs 11:27

The person seeking good will find favor, but anyone who searches for evil it will find him!

Seeking For Concrete Things

Leviticus 10:16

Now Moses diligently sought for the goat that had been offered as a sin offering, but it had already been incinerated, so he was angry with Aaron's sons who remained. He asked Eleazar and Ithamar,

Seeking Things Above

Colossians 3:1-2

Therefore, if you have been raised with the Messiah, keep focusing on the things that are above, where the Messiah is seated at the right hand of God.

Seven Things

Genesis 41:5

After he had fallen back to sleep, he had a second dream, in which seven ears of plump, fruit-filled grain grew up on a single stalk.

Sharing Material Things

Genesis 14:24

I will take nothing except what my warriors have eaten. But as for what belongs to the men who were allied with me, including Aner, Eshcol, and Mamre, let them take their share."

Six Things

Exodus 25:32

Six branches are to extend from its sides, three branches of the lamp stand from one side of it and three branches of the lamp stand from its other side.

Small Things

1 Kings 8:64

That same day, the king consecrated the middle court that stood in front of the LORD's Temple, because that was where he offered burnt offerings, grain offerings, and fat from the peace offerings and because the bronze altar that was in the LORD's presence was too small to hold the burnt offerings, grain offerings, and fat from the peace offerings.

Small Things God Uses

Exodus 4:2

"What's that in your hand?" the LORD asked him. Moses answered, "A staff."

Storing Other Things

Genesis 27:36

Then he said, "Isn't his name rightly called Jacob?" Esau asked. "He has circumvented me this second time. First, he took away my birthright, and now, look how he also stole my blessing." Then he added, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"

Straight Things

Ezekiel 1:7

and straight legs. Their feet resembled calves' hooves, but they gleamed like polished bronze.

Taking God's Things

Matthew 13:12

because to anyone who has something, more will be given, and he will have more than enough. But from the one who doesn't have anything, even what he has will be taken away from him.

Ten Things

Exodus 26:1

"You are to make the tent with ten curtains of fine woven linen and with blue, purple, and scarlet material. You are to make them with cherubim skillfully worked into them.

Things As Signs

Exodus 12:13

The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are. I'll see the blood and pass over you. There will be no plague to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

Things As Witnesses

Genesis 21:30

He replied, "You are to accept from me these seven ewe lambs as a witness that I have dug this well."

Things Changed

Exodus 4:3

Then God said, "Throw it to the ground." He threw it to the ground and it became a snake. Moses ran away from it.

Things Falling

Joshua 6:5

When they sound a long blast with the ram's horn, as soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, then the entire army is to cry out loud, the city wall will collapse, and then all of the soldiers are to charge straight ahead."

Things Going Before

Numbers 10:33

So they traveled from the mountain of the LORD, a three-day trip, with the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD traveling in front of them a three day trip to explore a place for them to rest.

Things Going Up

Ecclesiastes 1:5

The sun rises, the sun sets, then rushes back to where it arose.

Things Lifted Up

Genesis 7:17

The flood continued throughout the earth for 40 days, while the flood waters increased, lifting the ark so that it rose above the surface of the earth.

Things Like

Galatians 5:21

envy, murder, drunkenness, wild partying, and things like that. I am telling you now, as I have told you in the past, that people who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Things Like Bronze

Deuteronomy 28:23

The sky above your head will become bronze while the ground beneath you will become iron.

Things Like Gold

Psalm 19:10

They are more desirable than gold, even much fine gold. They are sweeter than honey, even the drippings from a honeycomb.

Things Like Iron

Deuteronomy 28:23

The sky above your head will become bronze while the ground beneath you will become iron.

Things Like People

Judges 9:36

When Gaal saw the army, he observed to Zebul, "Look there! People are coming down from the top of the mountains." But Zebul replied to him, "You're looking at morning shadows cast by the mountains. They just look like men to you."

Things Like Snakes

Micah 7:17

They will lick the dust like a serpent; they will crawl from their strongholds like snakes. They will fear the LORD our God. They will be terrified because of you.

Things Like The Sea

Psalm 36:6

Your righteousness is like the mountains of God; your justice is like the great depths of the sea. You deliver both people and animals, LORD.

Things Manifest

1 Timothy 5:24

The sins of some people are obvious, leading them to judgment. The sins of others follow them there.

Things On High

Ezekiel 21:26

This is what the Lord GOD says: "Remove your turban! Take off your crown! Things aren't going to remain as they used to be. What is lowly will be exalted, and what is lofty will be brought low.

Things Revealed

1 Samuel 9:15

Now one day before Saul's arrival, the LORD had revealed to Samuel:

Things Shaking

Hebrews 12:27

The expression "once more" signifies the removal of what can be shaken, that is, what he has made, so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

Things Stopping

Exodus 9:29

Moses told him, "When I leave the city I'll spread out my hands to the LORD. The thunder will cease and the hail won't continue, so that you may know that the earth belongs to the LORD.

Things Stripped

Psalm 29:9

The voice of the LORD causes deer to give birth, and strips the forest bare. In his Temple all of them shout, "Glory!"

Things Stuck Together

Psalm 22:15

My strength is dried up like broken pottery; my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth, and you have brought me down to the dust of death.

Things Surrounding

Genesis 2:11

The name of the first one is Pishon it winds through the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Things Under

1 Corinthians 15:27

for "God has put everything under his feet." Now when he says, "Everything has been put under him," this clearly excludes the one who put everything under him.

Top Of Things

1 Kings 7:16-20

He also crafted two capitals of cast bronze and set them on top of the pillars. The height of one capital was five cubits, and the height of the other capital was five cubits.

Touching Holy Things

Leviticus 22:6

such a person who comes in contact with anything like this will become unclean until evening. As a result, he is not to eat the sacred things unless he has bathed himself with water.

Touching Unclean Things

Leviticus 5:2-3

"When a person has touched a ceremonially unclean thing inadvertently, such as the carcass of an unclean animal, or some unclean creeping thing, he will be unclean and guilty nevertheless.

Twelve Things

Exodus 15:27

Then they came to Elim where there were twelve springs of water and 70 palm trees, and they camped there by the water.

Two Intangible Things

1 Kings 18:21

where Elijah approached all the people and asked them, "How long will you keep hesitating between both sides? If the LORD is God, go after him. If Baal, go after him." But the people didn't say a word.

Unable To Do Other Things

Exodus 2:3

But when she was no longer able to hide him, she took a papyrus container, coated it with asphalt and pitch, placed the child in it, and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

Unbearable Things

Acts 15:10

So why do you test God by putting on the disciples' neck a yoke that neither our ancestors nor we could carry?

Uncertain Things

Deuteronomy 28:66

You'll cling to life, being fearful by both night and day, with no assurance of survival.

Uncertain, Things That Are

John 16:32

Listen, the time is coming, indeed it has already come, when you will be scattered, each of you to his own home, and you will leave me all by myself. Yet I'm not alone, because the Father is with me.

Unclean Things

Leviticus 13:51

The priest is to examine the contagion on the seventh day. If the infection has spread on the clothing, in the woven material, the knitted material, or in the leather, no matter the purpose for which the leather material had been manufactured, the contagion is a chronic fungal infection. It's unclean.

Unfitting Things

Proverbs 26:1

Like snowfall in summer or rain at harvest time, so honor is inappropriate for a fool.

Unimportant Things

Exodus 18:22

They are to judge the people at all times. Let them bring every major matter to you, but let them judge every minor matter. It will lighten your burden, and they'll bear it with you.

Unique Things

Exodus 9:18

Look! About this time tomorrow, I'll send a severe hail storm, such as has not happened in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

Unrelated Things

2 Kings 9:18

So a horseman went out, greeted Jehu and said, "This is what the king said: "Have you come in peace?'" But Jehu responded, "What do you have to do with peace? Fall in behind me." The watchman reported, "The messenger arrived there, but he hasn't returned."

Useless Things

Psalm 119:37

Turn my eyes away from gazing at worthless things, and revive me by your ways.

Weights Of Other Things

Exodus 30:24

500 shekels of cassia all according to the shekel of the sanctuary and a hin of olive oil.

Why God Did Things

Exodus 18:8

Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to the Egyptians on Israel's behalf, all the hardships that they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

Worshipping Material Things

Exodus 32:8

They have been quick to turn aside from the way I commanded them, and they have made for themselves a molten calf. They have bowed down to it in worship, they have offered sacrifices to it, and they have said, "This, Israel, is your god who brought you out of the land of Egypt.'"

Never miss a post

Related Readings

Theasaurus: Things

International Standard Version Copyright © 1996-2008 by the ISV Foundation.