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Bible Verses About Dreams

This collection includes 50 passages about Dreams. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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And the king said unto them, I have dreamed a dream, and my spirit was troubled to know the dream.

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But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these;

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In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep falleth upon men, in slumberings upon the bed;

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But if ye will not make known unto me the dream, there is but one decree for you: for ye have prepared lying and corrupt words to speak before me, till the time be changed: therefore tell me the dream, and I shall know that ye can shew me the interpretation thereof.

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And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the Lord will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.

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And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

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In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.

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And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

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For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

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I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

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If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,

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But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.

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And they said unto him, We have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter of it. And Joseph said unto them, Do not interpretations belong to God? tell me them, I pray you.

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Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

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And in the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.

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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that thou canst understand a dream to interpret it.

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This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

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And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.

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And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

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In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.

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And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.

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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.

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They answered again and said, Let the king tell his servants the dream, and we will shew the interpretation of it.

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The prophet that hath a dream, let him tell a dream; and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What is the chaff to the wheat? saith the Lord.

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And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, which were bound in the prison.

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And the angel that talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man that is wakened out of his sleep,

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But God came to Abimelech in a dream by night, and said to him, Behold, thou art but a dead man, for the woman which thou hast taken; for she is a man’s wife.

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And he slept and dreamed the second time: and, behold, seven ears of corn came up upon one stalk, rank and good.

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And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream by night, and said unto him, Take heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

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For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Let not your prophets and your diviners, that be in the midst of you, deceive you, neither hearken to your dreams which ye cause to be dreamed.

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And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven ears came up in one stalk, full and good:

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And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.

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And the chief butler told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, In my dream, behold, a vine was before me;

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And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream, behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:

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Forasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.

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He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

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And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

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And Joseph said unto Pharaoh, The dream of Pharaoh is one: God hath shewed Pharaoh what he is about to do.

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O Belteshazzar, master of the magicians, because I know that the spirit of the holy gods is in thee, and no secret troubleth thee, tell me the visions of my dream that I have seen, and the interpretation thereof.

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Thus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.

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