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Bible Verses About Smell

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

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And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.

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And he came near, and kissed him: and he smelled the smell of his raiment, and blessed him, and said, See, the smell of my son is as the smell of a field which the Lord hath blessed:

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And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

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And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; and burning instead of beauty.

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Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.

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And spice, and oil for the light, and for the anointing oil, and for the sweet incense.

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And as for the perfume which thou shalt make, ye shall not make to yourselves according to the composition thereof: it shall be unto thee holy for the Lord.

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I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

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But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh; then he shall bear his iniquity.

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If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

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His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

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Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

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For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked before me, saith the Lord God.

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And oil for the light, and spices for anointing oil, and for the sweet incense,

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But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

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He saith among the trumpets, Ha, ha; and he smelleth the battle afar off, the thunder of the captains, and the shouting.

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Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.

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But thou, when thou fastest, anoint thine head, and wash thy face;

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And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.

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Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.

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And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

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All the while my breath is in me, and the spirit of God is in my nostrils;

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And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;

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Who is this that cometh out of the wilderness like pillars of smoke, perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, with all powders of the merchant?

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And thou wentest to the king with ointment, and didst increase thy perfumes, and didst send thy messengers far off, and didst debase thyself even unto hell.

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And thou shalt make it a perfume, a confection after the art of the apothecary, tempered together, pure and holy:

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And purify all your raiment, and all that is made of skins, and all work of goats’ hair, and all things made of wood.

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And the anointing oil, and sweet incense for the holy place: according to all that I have commanded thee shall they do.

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For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

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The noise thereof sheweth concerning it, the cattle also concerning the vapour.

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And whosoever toucheth any thing that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth any of those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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His cheeks are as a bed of spices, as sweet flowers: his lips like lilies, dropping sweet smelling myrrh.

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It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;

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Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.

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There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

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There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

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The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

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Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

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And whatsoever the unclean person toucheth shall be unclean; and the soul that toucheth it shall be unclean until even.

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And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade: and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.

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