Bible Verses About Blacks
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for blacks, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 510 votes, led by Numbers 12:1. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Blacks
Numbers 12:143 votes
And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.
Luke 23:2643 votes
And as they led him away, they laid hold upon one Simon, a Cyrenian, coming out of the country, and on him they laid the cross, that he might bear it after Jesus.
Song of Songs 1:536 votes
I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.
Jeremiah 13:2333 votes
Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.
Acts 13:133 votes
Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.
Romans 2:1132 votes
For there is no respect of persons with God.
Genesis 1:2629 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.
Song of Songs 1:627 votes
Look not upon me, because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me: my mother’s children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vineyards; but mine own vineyard have I not kept.
Proverbs 3:525 votes
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Amos 9:724 votes
Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
Acts 10:3422 votes
Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
Job 30:3019 votes
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Psalms 68:3115 votes
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
Galatians 3:2815 votes
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
Revelation 1:1515 votes
And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.
Genesis 9:2514 votes
And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren.
Song of Songs 5:1112 votes
His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black as a raven.
Jeremiah 27:611 votes
And now have I given all these lands into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon, my servant; and the beasts of the field have I given him also to serve him.
Zechariah 6:611 votes
The black horses which are therein go forth into the north country; and the white go forth after them; and the grisled go forth toward the south country.
Jude 1:1311 votes
Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
Genesis 2:710 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.
Genesis 9:1-2910 votes
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Deuteronomy 23:210 votes
A bastard shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to his tenth generation shall he not enter into the congregation of the Lord.
Romans 5:810 votes
But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
What does the Bible say about blacks?
Readers most often cite Numbers 12:1 on the subject of blacks. Across 510 votes, 24 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Luke 23:26, Song of Songs 1:5, Jeremiah 13:23. This page lists all 24 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.