Bible Verses About Fire
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for fire, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 13,911 votes, led by Hebrews 12:29. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Fire
Hebrews 12:29513 votes
For our God is a consuming fire.
Luke 3:16457 votes
John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:
Psalms 104:4398 votes
Who maketh his angels spirits; his ministers a flaming fire:
Luke 12:49351 votes
I am come to send fire on the earth; and what will I, if it be already kindled?
Exodus 3:2341 votes
And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Acts 2:3322 votes
And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them.
Jeremiah 23:29312 votes
Is not my word like as a fire? saith the Lord; and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces?
Jeremiah 20:9287 votes
Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I was weary with forbearing, and I could not stay.
2 Chronicles 7:1286 votes
Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the house.
Revelation 21:8273 votes
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
1 Corinthians 3:11-15221 votes
For other foundation can no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.
Matthew 3:11208 votes
I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire:
Amos 1:10205 votes
But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.
Matthew 25:41201 votes
Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:
Jude 1:7195 votes
Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
Isaiah 43:2194 votes
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Exodus 19:18191 votes
And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the Lord descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.
Exodus 40:38179 votes
For the cloud of the Lord was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
1 Corinthians 3:15-17178 votes
If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.
Revelation 20:9178 votes
And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.
1 Peter 1:7175 votes
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Deuteronomy 4:24170 votes
For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God.
1 Kings 18:38168 votes
Then the fire of the Lord fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Numbers 16:35157 votes
And there came out a fire from the Lord, and consumed the two hundred and fifty men that offered incense.
2 Kings 1:9-12157 votes
Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.
What does the Bible say about fire?
Readers most often cite Hebrews 12:29 on the subject of fire. Across 13,911 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Luke 3:16, Psalms 104:4, Luke 12:49. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.