Bible Verses About Milk
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for milk, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 4,677 votes, led by 1 Peter 2:2. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Milk
1 Peter 2:2223 votes
As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
1 Corinthians 3:2182 votes
I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able.
Hebrews 5:12171 votes
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Hebrews 5:13148 votes
For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
Genesis 18:8119 votes
And he took butter, and milk, and the calf which he had dressed, and set it before them; and he stood by them under the tree, and they did eat.
Proverbs 27:27119 votes
And thou shalt have goats’ milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens.
Jeremiah 11:5115 votes
That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O Lord.
Exodus 13:599 votes
And it shall be when the Lord shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that thou shalt keep this service in this month.
1 Corinthians 9:798 votes
Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?
Judges 4:1997 votes
And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.
Proverbs 30:3397 votes
Surely the churning of milk bringeth forth butter, and the wringing of the nose bringeth forth blood: so the forcing of wrath bringeth forth strife.
Numbers 13:2787 votes
And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us, and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.
Hebrews 5:11-1487 votes
Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
Joel 3:1886 votes
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of the Lord, and shall water the valley of Shittim.
Ezekiel 20:684 votes
In the day that I lifted up mine hand unto them, to bring them forth of the land of Egypt into a land that I had espied for them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands:
1 Samuel 6:1082 votes
And the men did so; and took two milch kine, and tied them to the cart, and shut up their calves at home:
Isaiah 7:2277 votes
And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
Isaiah 55:177 votes
Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
1 Samuel 6:775 votes
Now therefore make a new cart, and take two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke, and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them:
Hebrews 5:12-1475 votes
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
Ezekiel 25:473 votes
Behold, therefore I will deliver thee to the men of the east for a possession, and they shall set their palaces in thee, and make their dwellings in thee: they shall eat thy fruit, and they shall drink thy milk.
Song of Songs 5:172 votes
I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.
Jeremiah 32:2272 votes
And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
Exodus 23:1970 votes
The first of the firstfruits of thy land thou shalt bring into the house of the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.
Exodus 33:368 votes
Unto a land flowing with milk and honey: for I will not go up in the midst of thee; for thou art a stiffnecked people: lest I consume thee in the way.
What does the Bible say about milk?
Readers most often cite 1 Peter 2:2 on the subject of milk. Across 4,677 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including 1 Corinthians 3:2, Hebrews 5:12, Hebrews 5:13. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.