Bible Verses About The American Dream
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for the american dream, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 370 votes, led by 1 John 2:15-17. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about The American Dream
1 John 2:15-1762 votes
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
Mark 8:3642 votes
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
John 14:2722 votes
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Revelation 11:8-14:912 votes
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
Revelation 21:1-2712 votes
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea.
Genesis 9:1-710 votes
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
Genesis 28:12-1510 votes
And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
Exodus 34:7-2410 votes
Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.
Numbers 6:1-2710 votes
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Numbers 11:1-3510 votes
And when the people complained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the fire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp.
Numbers 14:8-910 votes
If the Lord delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.
Deuteronomy 6:1-2510 votes
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:
Deuteronomy 8:5-1810 votes
Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee.
Deuteronomy 14:26-15:1110 votes
And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the Lord thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
Deuteronomy 26:1-1910 votes
And it shall be, when thou art come in unto the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;
Deuteronomy 28:1-6810 votes
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:
Deuteronomy 30:310 votes
That then the Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee from all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath scattered thee.
1 Samuel 2:8-1010 votes
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, and he hath set the world upon them.
1 Kings 2:3-3:1110 votes
And keep the charge of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and his testimonies, as it is written in the law of Moses, that thou mayest prosper in all that thou doest, and whithersoever thou turnest thyself:
1 Chronicles 4:1-4310 votes
The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.
Isaiah 36:1-37:3810 votes
Now it came to pass in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah, that Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
Ezekiel 17:1-2410 votes
And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Daniel 4:27-3510 votes
Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by righteousness, and thine iniquities by shewing mercy to the poor; if it may be a lengthening of thy tranquillity.
1 Timothy 6:1-2110 votes
Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honour, that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed.
Revelation 9:4-1810 votes
And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
What does the Bible say about the american dream?
Readers most often cite 1 John 2:15-17 on the subject of the american dream. Across 370 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Mark 8:36, John 14:27, Revelation 11:8-14:9. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.