11 Bible Verses about Smallness

Look at ships, too; though great and driven by violent winds, they are steered with a tiny rudder wherever the pilot pleases. So the tongue, too, is a little organ but can boast of great achievements. See how a spark, ever so tiny, can set a vast forest on fire!

But narrow is the gate and hard is the road that leads to life, and few are they that find it.

He answered them, "Because you have so little faith! For I solemnly say to you, if you have the faith that is living like a grain of mustard, you can say to this mountain, 'Move over from here to yonder,' and it will move over, and nothing will be impossible for you to do."

Then the Lord said to them, "If you had faith that grows like a mustard seed, you might have been saying to this mulberry tree, 'Pull yourself up by the roots and plant yourself in the sea,' and it would have obeyed you!

As we passed under the lee of a small island called Cauda, with great difficulty we were able to secure the ship's boat.

As I have gotten help from God clear down to this very day, I stand here to testify to high and low alike, without adding a syllable to what Moses and the prophets said should take place,

The heathen were enraged, but now your anger has come, and the time for the dead to be judged, and for you to reward your slaves the prophets and your people, great and small, who revere your name, and to destroy the destroyers of the earth."

And he makes all, great and small, rich and poor, freemen and slaves, have a mark stamped on their right hands or on their foreheads,

And there came a voice from the throne, saying, "Praise our God, all you slaves of His who fear Him, great and small."

I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened; it was the book of life, And the dead were judged by what was written in the books in accordance with what they had done.

So he said to him, 'Well done, my good slave! Because you have proven dependable in a very small business, be governor of ten cities!'