35 Bible Verses about Smallness

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!

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.

A household may be too small to eat a whole animal. That household and the one next-door can share one animal. Choose your animal based on the number of people and what each person can eat.

Joshua answered: If you are a great people, then get to the wood country, and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim is too narrow for you.

Elijah said to her: Have no fear. Go and do as you said, but first make me a little cake of it and come and give it to me. Then make something for yourself and your son.

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.

And the children of Israel assembled, and food was made ready and they went against them. The children of Israel camped like two little flocks of goats before them. All the country was full of the Syrians.

Let us build a small room on the roof, and put a bed, a table, a chair, and a lamp in it. He can stay there when he visits us.

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

There are four things that are little upon the earth, but they (chakam: teach wisdom) are exceeding wise: The ants are beings that are not strong, yet they prepare their food in the summer. The rock badgers are a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks.read more.
The locusts have no king, yet they advance in ranks. The spider grasps with her hands, and in kings' palaces.

Even if you are destroyed and demolished, and your land is in ruins, you will be too crowed for your people. Those who devoured you will be long gone. The children removed from you will say to you: 'This place is too crowed for me. Make room for me to live here.'

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).

Narrow is the gate and difficult is the way to life. Only a few put forth the effort. Yes, only a few people enter the narrow gate.

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!

We had shelter when we passed to the south of the little island of Cauda. There, with some difficulty we managed to make the ship's boat secure.

You will not show partiality in judgment. You shall hear the small and the great. You will not fear man for the judgment is God's. The case that is too hard for you, bring to me, and I will hear it.'

Now the king of Aram had given orders to the thirty-two captains of his war-carriages, saying: Make no attack on small or great, but only on the king of Israel.

The king of Aram gave orders to the chariot commanders. He said: Do not fight anyone except the king of Israel.

All people, young and old, male and female, who refused to dedicate their lives to the true God Jehovah the God of Israel were to be killed.

Why was I not hidden in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day? There the wicked cease from turmoil, and there the weary are at rest. Captives also enjoy their ease; they no longer hear the slave driver's shout.read more.
The small and the great are there. The slave is freed from his master.

He will bless those who reverence and respect Jehovah, from the least important to the most important.

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

Having obtained help from God, I continue to this day, witnessing both to small and great, saying no other things than those that the prophets and Moses said should come.

The nations were angry. Your wrath (indignation) has come! It is time to judge the dead, to reward your servants the prophets, the holy ones, and those who reverence your name the small and the great. Time to destroy (exterminate) (eradicate) those who destroy the earth.

And he forces all persons, the great and the small, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads.

Then a voice came from the throne. It said: Praise our God, all you his servants, and you who reverence him, both small and great.

I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God. The books were opened: and another book was opened, which is the book of life: and the dead were judged according to the things written in the books, according to their works.

Saul's servants said these things to David. And David said: I am not rich or famous enough to marry Princess Michal.

Samuel said to Saul: You are little in your own eyes. Even though you are a leader of all of the tribes of Israel that Jehovah anointed king over Israel.

He said to him: It will not happen. You will not die! My father does nothing either great or small without disclosing it to me. So why should my father hide this thing from me? It is not so!

Then she said: I have one small request to make of you. Do not say 'No' to me. The king replied: Speak mother for I will not say no to you.

He says: It is a small thing that you are my servant. You will raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the preserved ones of Israel. I will also make you a light to the nations that my salvation will reach to the end of the earth.

He said: Well done, you good servant. You were faithful in very little. Now you shall have authority over ten cities.

It happened when they quit eating the grass of the land. I said, O Lord Jehovah, forgive, I entreat you: how shall Jacob stand? Since he is so small. Jehovah changed his mind about this. It will not be, said Jehovah. The Lord Jehovah showed me and, behold, the Lord Jehovah called for judgement (contention) by fire and it devoured the great deep. It would have eaten up the land.read more.
Then I said, O Lord Jehovah, cease, I plead with you: how can Jacob stand? After all he is small.