Bible Verses About Lifting Hands
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for lifting hands, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 21,463 votes, led by 1 Timothy 2:8. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Lifting Hands
1 Timothy 2:8730 votes
I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.
Psalms 63:4616 votes
Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.
Psalms 134:2609 votes
Lift up your hands in the sanctuary, and bless the Lord.
Lamentations 3:41568 votes
Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.
Psalms 141:2530 votes
Let my prayer be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice.
Psalms 28:2502 votes
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
Nehemiah 8:6475 votes
And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the Lord with their faces to the ground.
Psalms 119:48426 votes
My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.
Ezra 9:5397 votes
And at the evening sacrifice I arose up from my heaviness; and having rent my garment and my mantle, I fell upon my knees, and spread out my hands unto the Lord my God,
Luke 24:50365 votes
And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
Lamentations 2:19337 votes
Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
1 Kings 8:22335 votes
And Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:
1 Kings 8:54333 votes
And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.
Exodus 17:11329 votes
And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.
Psalms 143:6320 votes
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Psalms 88:9281 votes
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
Isaiah 1:15249 votes
And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
Habakkuk 3:10248 votes
The mountains saw thee, and they trembled: the overflowing of the water passed by: the deep uttered his voice, and lifted up his hands on high.
1 Kings 8:38247 votes
What prayer and supplication soever be made by any man, or by all thy people Israel, which shall know every man the plague of his own heart, and spread forth his hands toward this house:
Exodus 9:33224 votes
And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the Lord: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.
Job 11:13221 votes
If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;
Exodus 9:29220 votes
And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the Lord; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the Lord’s.
Psalms 68:31210 votes
Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God.
2 Chronicles 6:29-30208 votes
Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:
Leviticus 9:22194 votes
And Aaron lifted up his hand toward the people, and blessed them, and came down from offering of the sin offering, and the burnt offering, and peace offerings.
What does the Bible say about lifting hands?
Readers most often cite 1 Timothy 2:8 on the subject of lifting hands. Across 21,463 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Psalms 63:4, Psalms 134:2, Lamentations 3:41. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.