Bible Verses About Manner

This collection includes 167 passages about Manner. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

KJV

This collection is a starting point, not a count of every relevant passage in the Bible.

Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Reading context: Uses 'after the manner of women' for the customary way of women; fits manner as way/custom.

Scripture Passages

That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Reading context: 'After this manner' describes acting in a certain way; clear manner-of-action usage.

And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

Reading context: 'After the manner of all the earth' means according to customary human way; fits customs.

And so commanded he the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him.

Reading context: 'On this manner' gives the way words are to be spoken; clear manner usage.

And it came to pass, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spake unto him, saying, After this manner did thy servant to me; that his wrath was kindled.

Reading context: 'After this manner' reports the way Joseph acted; clear manner-of-action usage.

Yet within three days shall Pharaoh lift up thine head, and restore thee unto thy place: and thou shalt deliver Pharaoh’s cup into his hand, after the former manner when thou wast his butler.

Reading context: 'After the former manner' refers to the customary way of his butler service; fits custom.

And to his father he sent after this manner; ten asses laden with the good things of Egypt, and ten she asses laden with corn and bread and meat for his father by the way.

Reading context: 'After this manner' describes the way the gift was sent; clear manner usage.

Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.

Reading context: 'In like manner' means the magicians did the same way; clear manner usage.

And if he have betrothed her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

Reading context: 'After the manner of daughters' refers to customary treatment/right of daughters; fits custom.

But the seventh year thou shalt let it rest and lie still; that the poor of thy people may eat: and what they leave the beasts of the field shall eat. In like manner thou shalt deal with thy vineyard, and with thy oliveyard.

Reading context: 'In like manner' means deal similarly with vineyard and oliveyard; clear manner usage.

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.

Reading context: KJV 'all manner of work' means every kind/form of craftsmanship; literal manner/kind sense fits the page.

Then wrought Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whom the Lord put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all manner of work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that the Lord had commanded.

Reading context: KJV 'all manner of work' means every kind/form of service work; literal kind/form sense.

And he shall offer the second for a burnt offering, according to the manner: and the priest shall make an atonement for him for his sin which he hath sinned, and it shall be forgiven him.

Reading context: Manner here is the prescribed procedure for the burnt offering; a clear way/ordinance sense.

Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Ye shall eat no manner of fat, of ox, or of sheep, or of goat.

Reading context: KJV 'no manner of fat' means no kind of fat; literal kind/form sense, though secondary to way/custom.

Moreover ye shall eat no manner of blood, whether it be of fowl or of beast, in any of your dwellings.

Reading context: KJV 'no manner of blood' means no kind of blood; literal kind/form sense.

Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Reading context: KJV 'any manner of blood' means any kind of blood; literal kind/form sense.

And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to the manner.

Reading context: Offered 'according to the manner' means according to the prescribed rite; clear way/procedure sense.

And whatsoever goeth upon his paws, among all manner of beasts that go on all four, those are unclean unto you: whoso toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.

Reading context: KJV 'all manner of beasts' means all kinds of four-footed animals; literal kind/form sense.

For I am the Lord your God: ye shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and ye shall be holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Reading context: KJV 'any manner of creeping thing' means any kind of creeping thing; literal kind/form sense.

This is the law for all manner of plague of leprosy, and scall,

Reading context: KJV 'all manner of plague of leprosy' means every kind of leprous plague; literal kind/form sense.

And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

Reading context: KJV 'any manner of blood' means any kind of blood; literal kind/form sense.

For it is the life of all flesh; the blood of it is for the life thereof: therefore I said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall eat the blood of no manner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof: whosoever eateth it shall be cut off.

Reading context: KJV 'no manner of flesh' means no kind of flesh; literal kind/form sense.

And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.

Reading context: KJV 'all manner of trees' means all kinds of fruit trees; literal kind/form sense.

And ye shall not walk in the manners of the nation, which I cast out before you: for they committed all these things, and therefore I abhorred them.

Reading context: Walking in the 'manners' of the nations means their customs/practices; central manner/custom sense.

Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

Reading context: KJV 'any manner of living thing' means any kind of creeping creature; literal kind/form sense.

Ye shall do no manner of work: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

Reading context: KJV 'no manner of work' means no kind of work; literal kind/form sense.

Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country: for I am the Lord your God.

Reading context: One 'manner of law' means one standard/way of law for stranger and native; clear manner/way sense.

And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the Lord; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.

Reading context: Keeping Passover 'according to the manner thereof' means according to its prescribed procedure; clear way/ordinance sense.

All that are born of the country shall do these things after this manner, in offering an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

Reading context: 'After this manner' means in this way/procedure for the offering; clear manner/way sense.

One law and one manner shall be for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you.

Reading context: Uses 'one manner' for the same ordinance/custom applying to Israel and the stranger; relevant to manner as prescribed way.

Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the Lord, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.

Reading context: The offering is made 'according to the manner,' meaning the prescribed procedure for the congregation's sin offering.

After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.

Reading context: Explicit 'After this manner ye shall offer daily'; manner means the prescribed way of offering throughout the feast.

Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.

Reading context: Offerings are brought 'according unto their manner,' meaning the prescribed ritual procedure.

And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner: