Bible Verses About Curiosity
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for curiosity, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,642 votes, led by Proverbs 25:2-3. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Curiosity
Proverbs 25:2-398 votes
It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.
Acts 1:788 votes
And he said unto them, It is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath put in his own power.
John 21:21-2260 votes
Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do?
Genesis 3:1-2459 votes
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?
Ecclesiastes 7:2154 votes
Also take no heed unto all words that are spoken; lest thou hear thy servant curse thee:
Proverbs 12:150 votes
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.
Proverbs 27:2047 votes
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Acts 17:19-2141 votes
And they took him, and brought him unto Areopagus, saying, May we know what this new doctrine, whereof thou speakest, is?
John 12:938 votes
Much people of the Jews therefore knew that he was there: and they came not for Jesus’ sake only, but that they might see Lazarus also, whom he had raised from the dead.
Luke 9:936 votes
And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.
Luke 23:836 votes
And when Herod saw Jesus, he was exceeding glad: for he was desirous to see him of a long season, because he had heard many things of him; and he hoped to have seen some miracle done by him.
1 Peter 1:1232 votes
Unto whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto us they did minister the things, which are now reported unto you by them that have preached the gospel unto you with the Holy Ghost sent down from heaven; which things the angels desire to look into.
Exodus 19:2131 votes
And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.
1 Samuel 6:1931 votes
And he smote the men of Beth–shemesh, because they had looked into the ark of the Lord, even he smote of the people fifty thousand and threescore and ten men: and the people lamented, because the Lord had smitten many of the people with a great slaughter.
Luke 13:2331 votes
Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,
Genesis 18:23-3230 votes
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Daniel 12:8-929 votes
And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things?
Genesis 3:628 votes
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
Genesis 32:2928 votes
And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
Judges 13:17-1827 votes
And Manoah said unto the angel of the Lord, What is thy name, that when thy sayings come to pass we may do thee honour?
John 12:20-2127 votes
And there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast:
Exodus 19:2426 votes
And the Lord said unto him, Away, get thee down, and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee: but let not the priests and the people break through to come up unto the Lord, lest he break forth upon them.
Numbers 4:19-2024 votes
But thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden:
Ecclesiastes 1:824 votes
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Matthew 26:1-7524 votes
And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,
What does the Bible say about curiosity?
Readers most often cite Proverbs 25:2-3 on the subject of curiosity. Across 1,642 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Acts 1:7, John 21:21-22, Genesis 3:1-24. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.