76 Bible Verses about Sea

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Genesis 1:9-10

God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so. God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

Jeremiah 5:22

Don't you fear me?' says Yahweh 'Won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though its waves toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.'

Psalm 146:6

who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps truth forever;

Isaiah 50:2

Why, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it can't redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

Amos 5:8

seek him who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth, Yahweh is his name,

Amos 9:6

It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; Yahweh is his name.

Acts 4:24

When they heard it, they lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, "O Lord, you are God, who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that is in them;

Psalm 104:25

There is the sea, great and wide, in which are innumerable living things, both small and large animals.

Genesis 1:21

God created the large sea creatures, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind. God saw that it was good.

Psalm 8:8

The birds of the sky, the fish of the sea, and whatever passes through the paths of the seas.

Ezekiel 38:20

so that the fish of the sea, and the birds of the sky, and the animals of the field, and all creeping things who creep on the earth, and all the men who are on the surface of the earth, shall shake at my presence, and the mountains shall be thrown down, and the steep places shall fall, and every wall shall fall to the ground.

Hosea 4:3

Therefore the land will mourn, and everyone who dwells therein will waste away. all living things in her, even the animals of the field and the birds of the sky; yes, the fish of the sea also die.

Habakkuk 1:14

and make men like the fish of the sea, like the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

Psalm 74:13

You divided the sea by your strength. You broke the heads of the sea monsters in the waters.

Job 26:12

He stirs up the sea with his power, and by his understanding he strikes through Rahab.

Isaiah 27:1

In that day, Yahweh with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan, the fleeing serpent, and leviathan the twisted serpent; and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea.

Revelation 13:1

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.

Amos 9:3

Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.

2 Samuel 22:16

Then the channels of the sea appeared. The foundations of the world were laid bare by the rebuke of Yahweh, At the blast of the breath of his nostrils.

Job 38:16

"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

Micah 7:19

He will again have compassion on us. He will tread our iniquities under foot; and you will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

Exodus 10:19

Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

Hebrews 11:29

By faith, they passed through the Red Sea as on dry land. When the Egyptians tried to do so, they were swallowed up.

Genesis 14:3

All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

2 Kings 14:25

He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to the word of Yahweh, the God of Israel, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was of Gath Hepher.

Numbers 34:11

and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;

John 6:1

After these things, Jesus went away to the other side of the sea of Galilee, which is also called the Sea of Tiberias.

Numbers 34:6-7

"'For the western border, you shall have the great sea and the border [of it]: this shall be your west border. "'This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for you Mount Hor;

Ezekiel 47:10

It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

Acts 27:27

But when the fourteenth night had come, as we were driven back and forth in the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors surmised that they were drawing near to some land.

1 Kings 7:23-26

He made the molten sea of ten cubits from brim to brim, round in compass, and its height was five cubits; and a line of thirty cubits encircled it. Under its brim around there were buds which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea: the buds were in two rows, cast when it was cast. It stood on twelve oxen, three looking toward the north, and three looking toward the west, and three looking toward the south, and three looking toward the east; and the sea was set on them above, and all their hinder parts were inward.read more.
It was a handbreadth thick: and its brim was worked like the brim of a cup, like the flower of a lily: it held two thousand baths.

2 Kings 16:17

King Ahaz cut off the panels of the bases, and removed the basin from off them, and took down the sea from off the bronze oxen that were under it, and put it on a pavement of stone.

2 Kings 25:13

The pillars of brass that were in the house of Yahweh, and the bases and the bronze sea that were in the house of Yahweh, did the Chaldeans break in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon.

Revelation 4:6

Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the midst of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.

Revelation 15:2

I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.

Isaiah 17:12

Ah, the uproar of many peoples, who roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!

Job 7:12

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

Job 14:11-12

As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up, so man lies down and doesn't rise. Until the heavens are no more, they shall not awake, nor be roused out of their sleep.

Isaiah 5:30

They will roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea. If one looks to the land behold, darkness and distress. The light is darkened in its clouds.

Isaiah 48:18

Oh that you had listened to my commandments! then your peace would have been like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea:

Isaiah 57:20

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

Jeremiah 6:23

They take hold of bow and spear. They are cruel, and have no mercy. Their voice roars like the sea, and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Zion."

Jeremiah 49:23

Of Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad; for they have heard evil news, they are melted away: there is sorrow on the sea; it can't be quiet.

Jeremiah 50:42

They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roars like the sea; and they ride on horses, everyone set in array, as a man to the battle, against you, daughter of Babylon.

Jeremiah 51:42

The sea is come up on Babylon; she is covered with the multitude of its waves.

Lamentations 2:13

What shall I testify to you? what shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? For your breach is great like the sea: who can heal you?

Ezekiel 26:3

therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I am against you, Tyre, and will cause many nations to come up against you, as the sea causes its waves to come up.

Zechariah 10:11

He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.

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

Joshua 1:4

From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.

Ezekiel 48:28

By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.

Ezekiel 47:10

It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

Numbers 34:6

"'For the western border, you shall have the great sea and the border [of it]: this shall be your west border.

Joshua 9:1

It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it

More verses: Joshua 15:12 Joshua 23:4

Salt » Christians as sea » Sea

Joshua 3:16

that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over right against Jericho.

Deuteronomy 3:17

the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border [of it], from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

Deuteronomy 4:49

and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

Genesis 14:3

All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

Zechariah 14:8

It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.

Sea » Dead

Joshua 3:16

that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over right against Jericho.

Deuteronomy 3:17

the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border [of it], from Chinnereth even to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

Deuteronomy 4:49

and all the Arabah beyond the Jordan eastward, even to the sea of the Arabah, under the slopes of Pisgah.

Genesis 14:3

All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

Zechariah 14:8

It will happen in that day, that living waters will go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the eastern sea, and half of them toward the western sea; in summer and in winter will it be.

Sea » Of galilee

Numbers 34:11

and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;

Matthew 4:18

Walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers: Simon, who is called Peter, and Andrew, his brother, casting a net into the sea; for they were fishermen.

John 21:1

After these things, Jesus revealed himself again to the disciples at the sea of Tiberias. He revealed himself this way.

Joshua 12:3

and the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth Jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:

Matthew 14:25

In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea.

Sea » Great

Joshua 1:4

From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.

Ezekiel 48:28

By the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar to the waters of Meribath Kadesh, to the brook [of Egypt], to the great sea.

Ezekiel 47:10

It shall happen, that fishermen shall stand by it: from En Gedi even to En Eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

Numbers 34:6

"'For the western border, you shall have the great sea and the border [of it]: this shall be your west border.

Joshua 9:1

It happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it

More verses: Joshua 15:12 Joshua 23:4

Sea » The sea controlled

Job 26:10

He has described a boundary on the surface of the waters, and to the confines of light and darkness.

Job 38:8

"Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth from the womb,

Job 38:11

and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'

Psalm 33:7

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap. He lays up the deeps in storehouses.

Psalm 104:9

You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.

Sea » Symbolical » In john's apocalyptic vision

Revelation 15:2

I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.

Revelation 13:1

Then I stood on the sand of the sea. I saw a beast coming up out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads. On his horns were ten crowns, and on his heads, blasphemous names.

Revelation 10:8

The voice which I heard from heaven, again speaking with me, said, "Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel who stands on the sea and on the land."

Revelation 4:6

Before the throne was something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal. In the midst of the throne, and around the throne were four living creatures full of eyes before and behind.

Sea » Creation of

Genesis 1:9-10

God said, "Let the waters under the sky be gathered together to one place, and let the dry land appear;" and it was so. God called the dry land "earth," and the gathering together of the waters he called "seas." God saw that it was good.

Psalm 148:4-5

Praise him, you heavens of heavens, You waters that are above the heavens. Let them praise the name of Yahweh, For he commanded, and they were created.

Sea » Lake galilee calmed by jesus

Mark 4:37-39

A big wind storm arose, and the waves beat into the boat, so much that the boat was already filled. He himself was in the stern, asleep on the cushion, and they woke him up, and told him, "Teacher, don't you care that we are dying?" He awoke, and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, "Peace! Be still!" The wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

Matthew 8:24-26

Behold, a violent storm came up on the sea, so much that the boat was covered with the waves, but he was asleep. They came to him, and woke him up, saying, "Save us, Lord! We are dying!" He said to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the wind and the sea, and there was a great calm.

Sea » Jesus walked upon lake galilee

Matthew 14:25-31

In the fourth watch of the night, Jesus came to them, walking on the sea. When the disciples saw him walking on the sea, they were troubled, saying, "It's a ghost!" and they cried out for fear. But immediately Jesus spoke to them, saying "Cheer up! It is I! Don't be afraid." read more.
Peter answered him and said, "Lord, if it is you, command me to come to you on the waters." He said, "Come!" Peter stepped down from the boat, and walked on the waters to come to Jesus. But when he saw that the wind was strong, he was afraid, and beginning to sink, he cried out, saying, "Lord, save me!" Immediately Jesus stretched out his hand, took hold of him, and said to him, "You of little faith, why did you doubt?"

Sea » Symbolical » In daniel's vision

Daniel 7:2-3

Daniel spoke and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the sky broke forth on the great sea. Four great animals came up from the sea, diverse one from another.

Sea » The dead, to be given up by the, at the resurrection

Revelation 20:13

The sea gave up the dead who were in it. Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them. They were judged, each one according to his works.

Topics on Sea

Coming To The Red Sea

Exodus 13:18

but God led the people around by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea; and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

Dead Sea

Genesis 14:3

All these joined together in the valley of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

Deep Seas

Job 38:16

"Have you entered into the springs of the sea? Or have you walked in the recesses of the deep?

Expanse Of The Sea

Psalm 139:9

If I take the wings of the dawn, and settle in the uttermost parts of the sea;

In The Heart Of The Sea

Ezekiel 26:19

For thus says the Lord Yahweh: When I shall make you a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep on you, and the great waters shall cover you;

Limits For The Sea

Job 38:10-11

marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors,

Mediterranean Sea

Genesis 49:13

"Zebulun will dwell at the haven of the sea. He will be for a haven of ships. His border will be on Sidon.

Other References To The Red Sea

Exodus 10:19

Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

Sea Of Glass

Revelation 15:2

I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.

Sea Travel

Matthew 23:15

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

Sea, Metaphorical References

Isaiah 57:20

But the wicked are like the troubled sea; for it can't rest, and its waters cast up mire and dirt.

The Sea Divided

Nehemiah 9:11

You divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into the mighty waters.

The Sea Stilled

Jonah 1:11

Then they said to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more stormy.

The Sea Stirred Up

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on the same day all the fountains of the great deep were burst open, and the sky's windows were opened.

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