Bible Verses About Moving Mountains
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for moving mountains, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,810 votes, led by Matthew 17:20. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Moving Mountains
Matthew 17:20363 votes
And Jesus said unto them, Because of your unbelief: for verily I say unto you, If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you.
Mark 11:23-24306 votes
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
Mark 11:23215 votes
For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.
1 Corinthians 13:2143 votes
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
Matthew 21:21125 votes
Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do this which is done to the fig tree, but also if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; it shall be done.
Mark 9:23120 votes
Jesus said unto him, If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.
Isaiah 40:4105 votes
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
1 John 5:1499 votes
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that, if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
Matthew 7:7-896 votes
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you:
Proverbs 3:5-688 votes
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Ephesians 2:884 votes
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
Zechariah 4:776 votes
Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.
Luke 17:676 votes
And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.
Ephesians 3:2066 votes
Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,
Matthew 17:1-2763 votes
And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
Isaiah 45:259 votes
I will go before thee, and make the crooked places straight: I will break in pieces the gates of brass, and cut in sunder the bars of iron:
Psalms 90:252 votes
Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.
Isaiah 54:1050 votes
For the mountains shall depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness shall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee.
Isaiah 52:749 votes
How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!
Matthew 10:147 votes
And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.
Mark 11:2247 votes
And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.
John 14:1247 votes
Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because I go unto my Father.
James 1:645 votes
But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
Matthew 21:2244 votes
And all things, whatsoever ye shall ask in prayer, believing, ye shall receive.
Isaiah 2:240 votes
And it shall come to pass in the last days, that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established in the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall flow unto it.
What does the Bible say about moving mountains?
Readers most often cite Matthew 17:20 on the subject of moving mountains. Across 3,810 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Mark 11:23-24, Mark 11:23, 1 Corinthians 13:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.