What Does the Bible Say About Soul?

Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 103 helpful votes

Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul who sins shall die.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 97 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.

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 94 helpful votes

And the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 80 helpful votes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

Matthew 16:26 ESV / 76 helpful votes

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 74 helpful votes

And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Psalm 23:3 ESV / 48 helpful votes

He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 36 helpful votes

The soul who sins shall die. The son shall not suffer for the iniquity of the father, nor the father suffer for the iniquity of the son. The righteousness of the righteous shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon himself.

Acts 2:27 ESV / 34 helpful votes

For you will not abandon my soul to Hades, or let your Holy One see corruption.

Psalm 103:1-22 ESV / 33 helpful votes

Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. ...

Mark 8:36 ESV / 32 helpful votes

For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?

Psalm 43:5 ESV / 32 helpful votes

Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me? Hope in God; for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 27 helpful votes

For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.

1 Corinthians 15:51-55 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: “Death is swallowed up in victory.” “O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?”

John 6:40 ESV / 23 helpful votes

For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who looks on the Son and believes in him should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes

The Lord tests the righteous, but his soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence.

Psalm 23:2-4 ESV / 22 helpful votes

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

Hebrews 4:11-13 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart. And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes

For we walk by faith, not by sight.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 21 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes

But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 20 helpful votes

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their portion will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

1 John 4:18-19 ESV / 20 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love. We love because he first loved us.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 20 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Psalm 94:19 ESV / 19 helpful votes

When the cares of my heart are many, your consolations cheer my soul.

Revelation 20:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Blessed and holy is the one who shares in the first resurrection! Over such the second death has no power, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and they will reign with him for a thousand years.

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes

And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 17 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.

Psalm 16:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes

For you will not abandon my soul to Sheol, or let your holy one see corruption.

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 15 helpful votes

Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Jeremiah 39:17-18 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But I will deliver you on that day, declares the Lord, and you shall not be given into the hand of the men of whom you are afraid. For I will surely save you, and you shall not fall by the sword, but you shall have your life as a prize of war, because you have put your trust in me, declares the Lord.’”

Psalm 115:3-9 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases. Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands. They have mouths, but do not speak; eyes, but do not see. They have ears, but do not hear; noses, but do not smell. They have hands, but do not feel; feet, but do not walk; and they do not make a sound in their throat. ...

Romans 2:5-7 ESV / 13 helpful votes

But because of your hard and impenitent heart you are storing up wrath for yourself on the day of wrath when God's righteous judgment will be revealed. He will render to each one according to his works: to those who by patience in well-doing seek for glory and honor and immortality, he will give eternal life;

Acts 2:41 ESV / 13 helpful votes

So those who received his word were baptized, and there were added that day about three thousand souls.

Psalm 103:1-6 ESV / 13 helpful votes

Of David. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name! Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowns you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagle's. ...

Psalm 91:14-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name. When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him.

Psalm 63:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes

My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.

Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 11 helpful votes

Whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool, but he who walks in wisdom will be delivered.

Psalm 146:2-4 ESV / 11 helpful votes

I will praise the Lord as long as I live; I will sing praises to my God while I have my being. Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Genesis 19:1-38 ESV / 11 helpful votes

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” ...

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And these will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”

Jeremiah 17:5-8 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord. He is like a shrub in the desert, and shall not see any good come. He shall dwell in the parched places of the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. “Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose trust is the Lord. He is like a tree planted by water, that sends out its roots by the stream, and does not fear when heat comes, for its leaves remain green, and is not anxious in the year of drought, for it does not cease to bear fruit.”

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward, for the memory of them is forgotten. Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and forever they have no more share in all that is done under the sun.

Proverbs 29:24-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes

The partner of a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse, but discloses nothing. The fear of man lays a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is safe.

Psalm 146:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes

When his breath departs, he returns to the earth; on that very day his plans perish.

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

Psalm 6:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes

For in death there is no remembrance of you; in Sheol who will give you praise?

Mark 7:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

Proverbs 13:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

A desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools. Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm.

Titus 3:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit,

Genesis 1:29-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the heavens and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food.” And it was so.

Genesis 35:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And as her soul was departing (for she was dying), she called his name Ben-oni; but his father called him Benjamin.

52 Bible Verses about Soul

Ezekiel 18:4 ESV / 103 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 97 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 12:7 ESV / 94 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 80 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 16:26 ESV / 76 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 74 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:3 ESV / 48 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 18:20 ESV / 36 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 2:27 ESV / 34 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 103:1-22 ESV / 33 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 8:36 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 43:5 ESV / 32 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Timothy 1:7 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 15:51-55 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 6:40 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 11:5 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 23:2-4 ESV / 22 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 4:11-13 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Corinthians 5:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 6:23 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:17 ESV / 21 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 21:8 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 John 4:18-19 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 3:16-17 ESV / 20 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 94:19 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 20:6 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 11:6 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 12:1-2 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 16:10 ESV / 16 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:5-6 ESV / 15 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 39:17-18 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 115:3-9 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 2:5-7 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 2:41 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 103:1-6 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 91:14-15 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 63:8 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 28:26 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 146:2-4 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 19:1-38 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 25:46 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 17:5-8 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ecclesiastes 9:5-6 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 29:24-25 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 146:4 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 1:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 6:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Mark 7:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 13:19-20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Titus 3:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 1:29-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 35:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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