Bible Verses About Birds
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for birds, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 10,026 votes, led by Matthew 6:26. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Birds
Matthew 6:26464 votes
Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Matthew 6:25-34388 votes
Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?
Psalms 104:12385 votes
By them shall the fowls of the heaven have their habitation, which sing among the branches.
Genesis 1:20223 votes
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
Psalms 50:11222 votes
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field are mine.
Isaiah 40:31215 votes
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.
Matthew 10:29188 votes
Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
Luke 12:24179 votes
Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap; which neither have storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them: how much more are ye better than the fowls?
Matthew 13:32178 votes
Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Job 38:41157 votes
Who provideth for the raven his food? when his young ones cry unto God, they wander for lack of meat.
Proverbs 27:8152 votes
As a bird that wandereth from her nest, so is a man that wandereth from his place.
Psalms 147:9141 votes
He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Matthew 10:16141 votes
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
Leviticus 11:13-20138 votes
And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,
Genesis 1:21122 votes
And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.
Matthew 8:20122 votes
And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Song of Songs 2:12118 votes
The flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;
Psalms 91:1-16113 votes
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Psalms 104:17111 votes
Where the birds make their nests: as for the stork, the fir trees are her house.
Jeremiah 5:27111 votes
As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.
Matthew 3:16104 votes
And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
Jeremiah 8:7103 votes
Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Genesis 1:26102 votes
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
Genesis 9:298 votes
And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every fowl of the air, upon all that moveth upon the earth, and upon all the fishes of the sea; into your hand are they delivered.
Genesis 1:3097 votes
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
What does the Bible say about birds?
Readers most often cite Matthew 6:26 on the subject of birds. Across 10,026 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Matthew 6:25-34, Psalms 104:12, Genesis 1:20. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.