Bible Verses About Bones
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for bones, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,360 votes, led by Proverbs 17:22. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Bones
Proverbs 17:22140 votes
A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.
Ezekiel 37:1-5110 votes
The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
Proverbs 3:7-8100 votes
Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
Proverbs 15:30100 votes
The light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart: and a good report maketh the bones fat.
Psalms 51:879 votes
Make me to hear joy and gladness; that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
Proverbs 14:3075 votes
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Hebrews 4:1270 votes
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Proverbs 16:2464 votes
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
Proverbs 3:857 votes
It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Job 40:1855 votes
His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron.
Psalms 34:2050 votes
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
Genesis 2:23-2444 votes
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Isaiah 58:1137 votes
And the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Exodus 13:1933 votes
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.
Genesis 2:2332 votes
And Adam said, This is now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
Psalms 32:331 votes
When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.
Job 10:8-1230 votes
Thine hands have made me and fashioned me together round about; yet thou dost destroy me.
Genesis 50:2526 votes
And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.
Ezekiel 37:322 votes
And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
Ezekiel 37:1121 votes
Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
Psalms 91:1-1619 votes
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
Ezekiel 37:419 votes
Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
Luke 24:3919 votes
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
John 1:1-21:2517 votes
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
Exodus 12:4615 votes
In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
What does the Bible say about bones?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 17:22 on the subject of bones. Across 1,360 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Ezekiel 37:1-5, Proverbs 3:7-8, Proverbs 15:30. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.