67 Bible Verses about Refuge

And they heard the voice of LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. And LORD God called to the man, and said to him, Where are thou?

Where shall I go from thy Spirit? Or where shall I flee from thy presence? If I ascend up into heaven, thou are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, thou are there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the outermost parts of the sea,read more.
even there thy hand shall lead me, and thy right hand shall hold me. If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, and the light around me shall be night, even the darkness hides not from thee, but the night shines as the day. The darkness and the light are both alike [to thee].

Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and we are at agreement with Sheol. When the overflowing scourge shall pass through it shall not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hid ourselves unde

Those who fashion a graven image are all of them vanity. And the things that they delight in shall not profit. And their own witnesses see not, nor know, that they may be put to shame.

For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

Thus says LORD: Cursed is the man who trusts in man, and makes flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from LORD.

Some [trust] in chariots, and some in horses, but we will make mention of the name of LORD our God. They are bowed down and fallen, but we are risen, and stand upright.

Look on [my] right hand, and see, for there is no man who knows me. Refuge has failed me. No man cares for my soul.

Woe to the rebellious sons, says LORD, who take counsel, but not of me, and who make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin, who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked at my mouth, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of LORD to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says LORD of hosts.

For we are the circumcision, men who worship in spirit to God, and who boast in Christ Jesus, and not being confident in flesh.

They have also lightly healed the hurt of my people, saying, Peace, peace, when there is no peace.

Because, even because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace, and there is no peace, and when [a man] builds up a wall, behold, they daub it with untempered [mortar], say to those who daub it with untempered [mortar], that it shall fall. There shall be an overflowing shower, and ye, O great hailstones, shall fall, and a stormy wind shall rend it. Lo, when the wall has fallen, shall it not be said to you, Where is the daubing with which ye have daubed it?

And every man who hears these sayings of mine, and does not do them, will be compared to a foolish man who built his house upon the sand. And the rain descended, and the torrents came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell. And great was the fall of it.

And the kings of the earth, and the rulers, and the chief captains, and the rich, and the strong, and every bondman and freeman, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains. And they say to the mountains and to the rocks, Fall on us, and hide us from the face of him who sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb. Because the great day of his wrath has come, and who is able to stand?

The eternal God is [thy] dwelling-place, and underneath are the everlasting arms. And he thrust out the enemy from before thee, and said, Destroy.

There is none holy as LORD, for there is none besides thee, neither is there any rock like our God.

For who is God, except LORD? And who is a rock, except our God?

For who is God, except LORD? And who is a rock, besides our God,

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

He only is my rock and my salvation, my high tower. I shall not be moved. With God is my salvation and my glory. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

And I give them eternal life, and they will, no, not perish into the age, and not any will snatch them out of my hand. My Father who has given to me, is greater than all, and not one is able to snatch out of my Father's hand.

What then will we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us? He who did not even spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also give us all things with him?

And the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

LORD of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.

LORD is their strength, and he is a stronghold of salvation to his anointed.

God has made himself known in her palaces for a refuge.

But I will sing of thy strength. Yea, I will sing aloud of thy loving kindness in the morning. For thou have been my high tower, and a refuge in the day of my distress.

He only is my rock and my salvation, my high tower. I shall not be greatly moved.

Be thou to me a rock of habitation to which I may continually resort. Thou have given commandment to save me, for thou are my rock and my fortress.

I will say of LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.

Blessed be LORD, my rock, who teaches my hands to war, [and] my fingers to fight, my loving kindness, and my fortress, my high tower, and my deliverer, my shield, and he in whom I take refuge, who subdues my people under me. LORD, what is man, that thou take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that thou make account of him?

And he said, LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine. God, my rock, in him I will take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge, my savior. Thou save me from violence.

LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I will take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.

but his bow abode in strength. And the arms of his hands were made strong by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob (From there is the shepherd, the stone of Israel),

The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice, a God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and right is he.

LORD lives. And blessed be my rock. And exalted be God, the rock of my salvation,

Bow down thine ear to me. Deliver me speedily. Be thou to me a strong rock, a house of defense to save me.

But LORD has been my high tower, and my God the rock of my refuge.

Trust ye in LORD forever, for in LORD, [even] LORD, is an everlasting rock.

Are not thou from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, thou have ordained him for judgment, and thou, O Rock, have established him for correction.

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

LORD is thy keeper. LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.

For thou have been a stronghold to a poor man, a stronghold to a needy man in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the blast of the oppressors is as a storm against the wall. As the heat in a dry place thou will bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the oppressors shall be brought low.

Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in thee. Yea, in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge until calamities be passed by.

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness. He compassed him about. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye. As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings. He took them. He bore them on his pinions.

LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings thou have come to take refuge.

Keep me as the apple of the eye. Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

How precious is thy loving kindness, O God, and the sons of men take refuge under the shadow of thy wings.

O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who have been sent to her. How often I wanted to gathered thy children together the way a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, and ye would not.

After these things the word of LORD came to Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram. I am thy shield, thy exceedingly great reward.

Happy are thou, O Israel. Who is like thee, a people saved by LORD, the shield of thy help, and the sword of thy excellency! And thine enemies shall submit themselves to thee, and thou shall tread upon their high places.

As for God, his way is perfect. The word of LORD is tried. He is a shield to all those who take refuge in him.

But thou, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory and he who lifts up of my head.

LORD is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices, and with my song I will praise him.

For LORD God is a sun and a shield. LORD will give grace and glory. He will withhold no good thing from those who walk uprightly.

Every word of God is tried. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Above all having taken up the shield of faith, by which ye will be able to quench all the fiery darts of evil.

The name of LORD is a strong tower. A righteous man runs into it, and is safe.

For thou have been a refuge for me, a strong tower from the enemy.

then ye shall appoint cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person unwittingly may flee there.

Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, that the manslayer might flee there, who kills his neighbor unawares, and did not hate him in time past, and that fleeing to one of these cities he might live: [namely], Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

When LORD thy God shall cut off the nations, whose land LORD thy God gives thee, and thou succeed them, and dwell in their cities, and in their houses, thou shall set apart three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which LORD thy God gives thee to possess it. Thou shall prepare for thee the way, and divide the borders of thy land, which LORD thy God causes thee to inherit, into three parts, that every manslayer may flee there.read more.
And this is the case of the manslayer, who shall flee there and live: Whoever kills his neighbor unawares, and did not hate him in time past, as when a man goes into the forest with his neighbor to hew wood, and his hand fetches a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slips from the helve, and lands upon his neighbor, so that he dies, he shall flee to on Lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and smite him mortally, whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he did not hate him in time past. Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shall set apart three cities for thee. And if LORD thy God enlarge thy border, as he has sworn to thy fathers, and give thee all the land which he promised to give to thy fathers, if thou shall keep all this commandment to do it, which I command thee this day, to love LORD thy God, and to walk ever in his ways, then shall thou add three more cities for thee, besides these three, that innocent blood not be shed in the midst of thy land, which LORD thy God gives thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee. But if any man hates his neighbor, and lies in wait for him, and rises up against him, and smites him mortally so that he dies, and he flees into one of these cities, then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him from there, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die. Thine eye shall not pity him, but thou shall put away the innocent blood from Israel, that it may go well with thee.

And LORD spoke to Joshua, saying, Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, Assign for you the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses, that the manslayer who kills any soul unwittingly [and] unawares may flee there. And they shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.read more.
And he shall flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his case in the ears of the elders of that city. And they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, th And if the avenger of blood pursues after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand, because he smote his neighbor unawares, and did not hate him formerly. And he shall dwell in that city, until he stands before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high priest who shall be in those days. Then the manslayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah. And beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. These were the appointed cities for all the sons of Israel, and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any soul unwittingly might flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood until he stood befo