21 Bible Verses about Looking Intently At People

Meanwhile, the man was gazing at her in silence, to know whether the Lord had made his journey successful or not.

When they entered, he looked at Eliab and thought, “Surely the Lord’s anointed is before Him.”

And looking at them Jesus said to them, “With people this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”

Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”

The disciples began looking at one another, at a loss to know of which one He was speaking.

And a servant-girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight and looking intently at him, said, “This man was with Him too.”

His sister stood at a distance to find out what would happen to him.

But Peter, along with John, fixed his gaze on him and said, “Look at us!”

I can count all my bones.
They look, they stare at me;

But when Peter saw this, he replied to the people, “Men of Israel, why are you amazed at this, or why do you gaze at us, as if by our own power or piety we had made him walk?

But Saul, who was also known as Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fixed his gaze on him,

This man was listening to Paul as he spoke, who, when he had fixed his gaze on him and had seen that he had faith to be made well,

Paul, looking intently at the Council, said, “Brethren, I have lived my life with a perfectly good conscience before God up to this day.”

And it came about, whenever Moses went out to the tent, that all the people would arise and stand, each at the entrance of his tent, and gaze after Moses until he entered the tent.

“Go forth, O daughters of Zion,
And gaze on King Solomon with the crown
With which his mother has crowned him
On the day of his wedding,
And on the day of his gladness of heart.”

And my eye has looked exultantly upon my foes,
My ears hear of the evildoers who rise up against me.

“Now please look at me,
And see if I lie to your face.

Give me your heart, my son,
And let your eyes delight in my ways.

“Come back, come back, O Shulammite;
Come back, come back, that we may gaze at you!”
“Why should you gaze at the Shulammite,
As at the dance of the two companies?

“Do not stare at me because I am swarthy,
For the sun has burned me.
My mother’s sons were angry with me;
They made me caretaker of the vineyards,
But I have not taken care of my own vineyard.

“Turn your eyes away from me,
For they have confused me;
Your hair is like a flock of goats
That have descended from Gilead.