25 Bible Verses about Dirt

John 9:6 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 11 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Luke 9:5 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And wherever they do not receive you, when you leave that town shake off the dust from your feet as a testimony against them.”

Genesis 3:19 ESV / 8 helpful votes

By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread, till you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Luke 10:11 ESV / 7 helpful votes

‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet we wipe off against you. Nevertheless know this, that the kingdom of God has come near.’

Matthew 13:1-58 ESV / 7 helpful votes

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. And great crowds gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat down. And the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: “A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, since they had no depth of soil, ...

Acts 13:51 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But they shook off the dust from their feet against them and went to Iconium.

Nehemiah 5:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

I also shook out the fold of my garment and said, “So may God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this promise. So may he be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said “Amen” and praised the Lord. And the people did as they had promised.

Mark 6:11 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, shake off the dust that is on your feet as a testimony against them.”

Psalm 104:29 ESV / 5 helpful votes

When you hide your face, they are dismayed; when you take away their breath, they die and return to their dust.

Psalm 104:1-107:43 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Bless the Lord, O my soul! O Lord my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendor and majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent. He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind; he makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire. He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved. ...

Genesis 13:1-18 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So Abram went up from Egypt, he and his wife and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the Negeb. Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold. And he journeyed on from the Negeb as far as Bethel to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai, to the place where he had made an altar at the first. And there Abram called upon the name of the Lord. And Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents, ...

1 Corinthians 15:47 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven.

Acts 18:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And when they opposed and reviled him, he shook out his garments and said to them, “Your blood be on your own heads! I am innocent. From now on I will go to the Gentiles.”

Matthew 10:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town.

Job 33:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Behold, I am toward God as you are; I too was pinched off from a piece of clay.

Judges 3:22 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the dung came out.

Genesis 3:18 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for you; and you shall eat the plants of the field.

Genesis 2:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the Lord God planted a garden in Eden, in the east, and there he put the man whom he had formed.

Genesis 2:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—

1 Corinthians 4:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

When slandered, we entreat. We have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, the refuse of all things.

Lamentations 3:45 ESV / 3 helpful votes

You have made us scum and garbage among the peoples.

Isaiah 64:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.

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