Bible Verses About Ash Wednesday
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for ash wednesday, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 739 votes, led by Matthew 6:16-18. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Ash Wednesday
Matthew 6:16-18134 votes
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Genesis 3:19114 votes
In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Job 42:5-698 votes
I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.
Matthew 6:1-3473 votes
Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.
Ezekiel 9:463 votes
And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.
Genesis 2:751 votes
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Ecclesiastes 3:2039 votes
All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
John 14:630 votes
Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.
Matthew 6:16-2621 votes
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
Isaiah 61:1-1119 votes
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;
Daniel 9:319 votes
And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes:
John 3:16-1718 votes
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
Matthew 11:2115 votes
Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.
1 Corinthians 5:7-814 votes
Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
Mark 10:1-5211 votes
And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.
Esther 4:110 votes
When Mordecai perceived all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;
Job 42:610 votes
Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes.
What does the Bible say about ash wednesday?
Readers most often cite Matthew 6:16-18 on the subject of ash wednesday. Across 739 votes, 17 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Genesis 3:19, Job 42:5-6, Matthew 6:1-34. This page lists all 17 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.