Bible Verses About Painting
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for painting, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 1,178 votes, led by Exodus 35:35. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Painting
Exodus 35:35114 votes
Them hath he filled with wisdom of heart, to work all manner of work, of the engraver, and of the cunning workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, and in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of them that do any work, and of those that devise cunning work.
Exodus 31:1-5107 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Isaiah 44:1398 votes
The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
2 Chronicles 3:5-788 votes
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
1 Kings 6:2985 votes
And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, within and without.
Ezekiel 23:1469 votes
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
Hebrews 9:1468 votes
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
Exodus 35:30-3555 votes
And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the Lord hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
Jeremiah 22:1452 votes
That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
Exodus 31:1-636 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Habakkuk 2:1836 votes
What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?
Ezekiel 8:1032 votes
So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.
Revelation 21:18-2132 votes
And the building of the wall of it was of jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto clear glass.
2 Chronicles 3:6-729 votes
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
Acts 17:2928 votes
Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.
1 Kings 6:3525 votes
And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
2 Chronicles 2:1424 votes
The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.
Ezekiel 23:14-1724 votes
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,
2 Chronicles 3:722 votes
He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
Exodus 35:30-36:120 votes
And Moses said unto the children of Israel, See, the Lord hath called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah;
Daniel 5:520 votes
In the same hour came forth fingers of a man’s hand, and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaister of the wall of the king’s palace: and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.
Isaiah 44:13-1717 votes
The carpenter stretcheth out his rule; he marketh it out with a line; he fitteth it with planes, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of a man; that it may remain in the house.
Numbers 21:8-916 votes
And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
Psalms 45:116 votes
My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Daniel 5:416 votes
They drank wine, and praised the gods of gold, and of silver, of brass, of iron, of wood, and of stone.
What does the Bible say about painting?
Readers most often cite Exodus 35:35 on the subject of painting. Across 1,178 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Exodus 31:1-5, Isaiah 44:13, 2 Chronicles 3:5-7. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.