What Does the Bible Say About Coincidence?

Ecclesiastes 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.

Job 40:15-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Behold, Behemoth, which I made as I made you; he eats grass like an ox. Behold, his strength in his loins, and his power in the muscles of his belly. He makes his tail stiff like a cedar; the sinews of his thighs are knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.

Matthew 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished.

Matthew 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the birth of Jesus Christ took place in this way. When his mother Mary had been betrothed to Joseph, before they came together she was found to be with child from the Holy Spirit.

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.

Proverbs 27:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

As in water face reflects face, so the heart of man reflects the man.

Job 41:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook or press down his tongue with a cord? Can you put a rope in his nose or pierce his jaw with a hook? Will he make many pleas to you? Will he speak to you soft words? Will he make a covenant with you to take him for your servant forever? Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls? ...

1 Chronicles 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg (for in his days the earth was divided), and his brother's name was Joktan.

Deuteronomy 18:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I will raise up for them a prophet like you from among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

Deuteronomy 18:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“The Lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among you, from your brothers—it is to him you shall listen—

Numbers 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Every native Israelite shall do these things in this way, in offering a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.

Exodus 20:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones, for if you wield your tool on it you profane it.

Genesis 25:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

They settled from Havilah to Shur, which is opposite Egypt in the direction of Assyria. He settled over against all his kinsmen.

Genesis 22:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I will surely bless you, and I will surely multiply your offspring as the stars of heaven and as the sand that is on the seashore. And your offspring shall possess the gate of his enemies,

Genesis 17:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then Abraham took Ishmael his son and all those born in his house or bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house, and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskins that very day, as God had said to him.

Genesis 16:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He shall be a wild donkey of a man, his hand against everyone and everyone's hand against him, and he shall dwell over against all his kinsmen.”

Genesis 10:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, for in his days the earth was divided, and his brother's name was Joktan.

Genesis 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years,

Jude 1:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—

John 18:36 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Jesus answered, “My kingdom is not of this world. If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would have been fighting, that I might not be delivered over to the Jews. But my kingdom is not from the world.”

John 14:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 1:25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

They asked him, “Then why are you baptizing, if you are neither the Christ, nor Elijah, nor the Prophet?”

John 1:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.”

John 1:19-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And this is the testimony of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, “Who are you?” He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, “I am not the Christ.” And they asked him, “What then? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not.” “Are you the Prophet?” And he answered, “No.” So they said to him, “Who are you? We need to give an answer to those who sent us. What do you say about yourself?” He said, “I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord,’ as the prophet Isaiah said.” ...

John 1:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Luke 11:27-28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

As he said these things, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts at which you nursed!” But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

Luke 1:35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And the angel answered her, “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born will be called holy—the Son of God.

Matthew 24:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Matthew 11:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Truly, I say to you, among those born of women there has arisen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet the one who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Matthew 2:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And going into the house, they saw the child with Mary his mother, and they fell down and worshiped him. Then, opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh.

Malachi 1:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But Esau I have hated. I have laid waste his hill country and left his heritage to jackals of the desert.”

Micah 1:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make lamentation like the jackals, and mourning like the ostriches.

34 Bible Verses about Coincidence

Ecclesiastes 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Job 40:15-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 41:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 18:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 18:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 25:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 22:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 17:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 16:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 10:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jude 1:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 18:36 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 14:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 1:25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 1:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 1:19-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 1:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 11:27-28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 1:35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 24:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 11:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 2:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Malachi 1:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Micah 1:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote

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34 Bible Verses about Coincidence

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Ecclesiastes 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Job 40:15-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Matthew 5:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Matthew 1:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Isaiah 40:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Proverbs 27:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Job 41:1-34 ESV / 2 helpful votes

1 Chronicles 1:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 18:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Deuteronomy 18:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Numbers 15:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Exodus 20:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 25:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 22:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 17:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 16:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 10:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Genesis 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jude 1:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 18:36 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 14:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 1:25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 1:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 1:19-25 ESV / 1 helpful vote

John 1:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 11:27-28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Luke 1:35 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 24:21 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 11:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Matthew 2:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Malachi 1:3 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Micah 1:8 ESV / 1 helpful vote