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100 Bible Verses about Hands

Psalm 134:2 ESV / 337 helpful votes

Lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the Lord!

Psalm 90:17 ESV / 244 helpful votes

Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish the work of our hands upon us; yes, establish the work of our hands!

Isaiah 49:16 ESV / 228 helpful votes

Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are continually before me.

Ecclesiastes 9:10 ESV / 190 helpful votes

Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might, for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.

1 Timothy 2:8 ESV / 188 helpful votes

I desire then that in every place the men should pray, lifting holy hands without anger or quarreling;

Hebrews 12:12 ESV / 159 helpful votes

Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees,

Proverbs 31:20 ESV / 129 helpful votes

She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.

Isaiah 41:10 ESV / 116 helpful votes

Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.

Psalm 28:2 ESV / 112 helpful votes

Hear the voice of my pleas for mercy, when I cry to you for help, when I lift up my hands toward your most holy sanctuary.

Exodus 17:11-12 ESV / 112 helpful votes

Whenever Moses held up his hand, Israel prevailed, and whenever he lowered his hand, Amalek prevailed. But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

Isaiah 41:13 ESV / 108 helpful votes

For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”

Luke 24:50 ESV / 95 helpful votes

And he led them out as far as Bethany, and lifting up his hands he blessed them.

Job 17:9 ESV / 88 helpful votes

Yet the righteous holds to his way, and he who has clean hands grows stronger and stronger.

Psalm 19:1 ESV / 86 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork.

Isaiah 59:1 ESV / 75 helpful votes

Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;

Isaiah 1:15 ESV / 72 helpful votes

When you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Mark 16:18 ESV / 71 helpful votes

They will pick up serpents with their hands; and if they drink any deadly poison, it will not hurt them; they will lay their hands on the sick, and they will recover.”

Luke 4:40 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.

Proverbs 31:31 ESV / 66 helpful votes

Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.

Acts 19:11 ESV / 63 helpful votes

And God was doing extraordinary miracles by the hands of Paul,

Acts 11:21 ESV / 62 helpful votes

And the hand of the Lord was with them, and a great number who believed turned to the Lord.

Mark 10:16 ESV / 59 helpful votes

And he took them in his arms and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

1 Peter 5:6 ESV / 58 helpful votes

Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you,

1 Timothy 4:14 ESV / 57 helpful votes

Do not neglect the gift you have, which was given you by prophecy when the council of elders laid their hands on you.

James 4:8 ESV / 54 helpful votes

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

Psalm 63:4 ESV / 51 helpful votes

So I will bless you as long as I live; in your name I will lift up my hands.

Psalm 24:3-4 ESV / 51 helpful votes

Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord? And who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully.

Exodus 15:6 ESV / 48 helpful votes

Your right hand, O Lord, glorious in power, your right hand, O Lord, shatters the enemy.

Nehemiah 2:18 ESV / 42 helpful votes

And I told them of the hand of my God that had been upon me for good, and also of the words that the king had spoken to me. And they said, “Let us rise up and build.” So they strengthened their hands for the good work.

Mark 9:43 ESV / 41 helpful votes

And if your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than with two hands to go to hell, to the unquenchable fire.

Matthew 15:2 ESV / 40 helpful votes

“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.”

John 20:27 ESV / 37 helpful votes

Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side. Do not disbelieve, but believe.”

1 Timothy 5:22 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Do not be hasty in the laying on of hands, nor take part in the sins of others; keep yourself pure.

Matthew 27:24 ESV / 36 helpful votes

So when Pilate saw that he was gaining nothing, but rather that a riot was beginning, he took water and washed his hands before the crowd, saying, “I am innocent of this man's blood; see to it yourselves.”

1 Kings 18:46 ESV / 35 helpful votes

And the hand of the Lord was on Elijah, and he gathered up his garment and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.

Isaiah 48:13 ESV / 34 helpful votes

My hand laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; when I call to them, they stand forth together.

Psalm 143:6 ESV / 34 helpful votes

I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah

Psalm 18:34 ESV / 34 helpful votes

He trains my hands for war, so that my arms can bend a bow of bronze.

Luke 24:39 ESV / 33 helpful votes

See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”

Genesis 14:22 ESV / 33 helpful votes

But Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted my hand to the Lord, God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth,

Psalm 45:9 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.

Isaiah 64:8 ESV / 31 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.

Galatians 2:9 ESV / 30 helpful votes

And when James and Cephas and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given to me, they gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised.

Psalm 110:1 ESV / 30 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”

Psalm 73:23 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Nevertheless, I am continually with you; you hold my right hand.

Leviticus 24:14 ESV / 30 helpful votes

“Bring out of the camp the one who cursed, and let all who heard him lay their hands on his head, and let all the congregation stone him.

Leviticus 9:22 ESV / 30 helpful votes

Then Aaron lifted up his hands toward the people and blessed them, and he came down from offering the sin offering and the burnt offering and the peace offerings.

Colossians 3:23 ESV / 29 helpful votes

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men,

Acts 19:6 ESV / 26 helpful votes

And when Paul had laid his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they began speaking in tongues and prophesying.

Matthew 19:13 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Then children were brought to him that he might lay his hands on them and pray. The disciples rebuked the people,

Lamentations 3:41 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

Isaiah 35:3 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.

Psalm 141:2 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Let my prayer be counted as incense before you, and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice!

1 Kings 8:22 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel and spread out his hands toward heaven,

Genesis 48:14 ESV / 26 helpful votes

And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands (for Manasseh was the firstborn).

Matthew 5:30 ESV / 25 helpful votes

And if your right hand causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body go into hell.

Numbers 8:10 ESV / 25 helpful votes

When you bring the Levites before the Lord, the people of Israel shall lay their hands on the Levites,

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 24 helpful votes

I appeal to you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God, which is your spiritual worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Hebrews 6:2 ESV / 23 helpful votes

And of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

Exodus 29:10 ESV / 23 helpful votes

“Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting. Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.

Mark 1:41 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand and touched him and said to him, “I will; be clean.”

Philippians 4:13 ESV / 20 helpful votes

I can do all things through him who strengthens me.

Ezekiel 17:18 ESV / 20 helpful votes

He despised the oath in breaking the covenant, and behold, he gave his hand and did all these things; he shall not escape.

1 Kings 8:54 ESV / 20 helpful votes

Now as Solomon finished offering all this prayer and plea to the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, where he had knelt with hands outstretched toward heaven.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up!

Psalm 119:48 ESV / 19 helpful votes

I will lift up my hands toward your commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on your statutes.

Psalm 118:15-16 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Glad songs of salvation are in the tents of the righteous: “The right hand of the Lord does valiantly, the right hand of the Lord exalts, the right hand of the Lord does valiantly!”

Psalm 31:15 ESV / 19 helpful votes

My times are in your hand; rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!

Revelation 1:17 ESV / 18 helpful votes

When I saw him, I fell at his feet as though dead. But he laid his right hand on me, saying, “Fear not, I am the first and the last,

2 Timothy 1:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands,

1 Thessalonians 4:11 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you,

Matthew 18:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes

And if your hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.

Isaiah 62:8 ESV / 18 helpful votes

The Lord has sworn by his right hand and by his mighty arm: “I will not again give your grain to be food for your enemies, and foreigners shall not drink your wine for which you have labored;

Psalm 80:17 ESV / 18 helpful votes

But let your hand be on the man of your right hand, the son of man whom you have made strong for yourself!

Leviticus 1:4 ESV / 18 helpful votes

He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

Colossians 3:1 ESV / 17 helpful votes

If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God.

Mark 6:5 ESV / 17 helpful votes

And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.

Psalm 104:28 ESV / 17 helpful votes

When you give it to them, they gather it up; when you open your hand, they are filled with good things.

Ezra 10:19 ESV / 17 helpful votes

They pledged themselves to put away their wives, and their guilt offering was a ram of the flock for their guilt.

Deuteronomy 15:10 ESV / 17 helpful votes

You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.

Ezekiel 1:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

The word of the Lord came to Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the Chebar canal, and the hand of the Lord was upon him there.

Proverbs 10:4 ESV / 16 helpful votes

A slack hand causes poverty, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

Psalm 119:73 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Your hands have made and fashioned me; give me understanding that I may learn your commandments.

Psalm 16:8 ESV / 16 helpful votes

I have set the Lord always before me; because he is at my right hand, I shall not be shaken.

Job 17:3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

“Lay down a pledge for me with you; who is there who will put up security for me?

Nehemiah 6:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes

For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” But now, O God, strengthen my hands.

Joshua 4:24 ESV / 16 helpful votes

So that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever.”

Isaiah 66:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes

All these things my hand has made, and so all these things came to be, declares the Lord. But this is the one to whom I will look: he who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my word.

Isaiah 13:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes

On a bare hill raise a signal; cry aloud to them; wave the hand for them to enter the gates of the nobles.

2 Kings 10:15 ESV / 15 helpful votes

And when he departed from there, he met Jehonadab the son of Rechab coming to meet him. And he greeted him and said to him, “Is your heart true to my heart as mine is to yours?” And Jehonadab answered, “It is.” Jehu said, “If it is, give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand. And Jehu took him up with him into the chariot.

Leviticus 3:2 ESV / 15 helpful votes

And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and Aaron's sons the priests shall throw the blood against the sides of the altar.

Ephesians 2:10 ESV / 14 helpful votes

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Mark 7:2-5 ESV / 14 helpful votes

They saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.) And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”

Matthew 20:21 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.”

Jeremiah 18:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes

“O house of Israel, can I not do with you as this potter has done? declares the Lord. Behold, like the clay in the potter's hand, so are you in my hand, O house of Israel.

Isaiah 23:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes

He has stretched out his hand over the sea; he has shaken the kingdoms; the Lord has given command concerning Canaan to destroy its strongholds.

Psalm 138:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever. Do not forsake the work of your hands.

Deuteronomy 7:8 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But it is because the Lord loves you and is keeping the oath that he swore to your fathers, that the Lord has brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Proverbs 21:25 ESV / 13 helpful votes

The desire of the sluggard kills him, for his hands refuse to labor.

Proverbs 6:1 ESV / 13 helpful votes

My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor, have given your pledge for a stranger,

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