100 Bible Verses About Good Friday
Bible verses about Good Friday
Reflecting on Good Friday through scripture allows us to intimately connect with the heart of God's love. It's a day etched in time, a poignant reminder of sacrifice and redemption. Exploring these verses isn't simply an academic exercise; it's an invitation to comprehend the profound depth of Jesus's selfless act. Understanding the scriptures surrounding Good Friday illuminates the path to grace, forgiveness, and eternal life. Let these verses be a guiding light, helping you embrace the transformative power of Christ's sacrifice and the promise of hope that springs forth from the darkness.
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1 Samuel 20:36 (KJV)
And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
Good Friday Bible Verses: Reflecting on Jesus' Sacrifice
If ye walk in my statutes, and keep my commandments, and do them;
The proud have had me greatly in derision: yet have I not declined from thy law.
Lord, when thy hand is lifted up, they will not see: but they shall see, and be ashamed for their envy at the people; yea, the fire of thine enemies shall devour them.
Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the Lord our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;
But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.
When thus it shall be in the midst of the land among the people, there shall be as the shaking of an olive tree, and as the gleaning grapes when the vintage is done.
Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.
To shew that the Lord is upright: he is my rock, and there is no unrighteousness in him.
I love the Lord, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.
All that pass by the way spoil him: he is a reproach to his neighbours.
Return, we beseech thee, O God of hosts: look down from heaven, and behold, and visit this vine;
I have put off my coat; how shall I put it on? I have washed my feet; how shall I defile them?
Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.
And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.
I have set thee for a tower and a fortress among my people, that thou mayest know and try their way.
I acknowledged my sin unto thee, and mine iniquity have I not hid. I said, I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord; and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine.
But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels and in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots:
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.
When he slew them, then they sought him: and they returned and enquired early after God.
They have mouths, but they speak not: eyes have they, but they see not:
Thou hast broken Rahab in pieces, as one that is slain; thou hast scattered thine enemies with thy strong arm.
He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.
Wherefore should the heathen say, Where is their God? let him be known among the heathen in our sight by the revenging of the blood of thy servants which is shed.
For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, until his iniquity be found to be hateful.
And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.
Behold now, I have ordered my cause; I know that I shall be justified.
For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
O worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
The small and great are there; and the servant is free from his master.
Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.
Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.
Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence; he will come and save you.
And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together.
Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.
Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
The Lord looketh from heaven; he beholdeth all the sons of men.
For I will declare mine iniquity; I will be sorry for my sin.
For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
So Solomon thrust out Abiathar from being priest unto the Lord; that he might fulfil the word of the Lord, which he spake concerning the house of Eli in Shiloh.
And David said to Abishai, and to all his servants, Behold, my son, which came forth of my bowels, seeketh my life: how much more now may this Benjamite do it? let him alone, and let him curse; for the Lord hath bidden him.
At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
These see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep.
Such as sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, being bound in affliction and iron;
I was wroth with my people, I have polluted mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Depart ye, depart ye, go ye out from thence, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of her; be ye clean, that bear the vessels of the Lord.
An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.
Yet he also is wise, and will bring evil, and will not call back his words: but will arise against the house of the evildoers, and against the help of them that work iniquity.
And there came a traveller unto the rich man, and he spared to take of his own flock and of his own herd, to dress for the wayfaring man that was come unto him; but took the poor man’s lamb, and dressed it for the man that was come to him.
A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
David therefore sent out spies, and understood that Saul was come in very deed.
Turn us again, O God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.
Be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish: why shouldest thou die before thy time?
I will also clothe her priests with salvation: and her saints shall shout aloud for joy.
Hell from beneath is moved for thee to meet thee at thy coming: it stirreth up the dead for thee, even all the chief ones of the earth; it hath raised up from their thrones all the kings of the nations.
And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee: and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed:
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.
And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns passed on before the Lord, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.
Thy righteousness also, O God, is very high, who hast done great things: O God, who is like unto thee!
But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
Which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac;
For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer–elim.
They soon forgat his works; they waited not for his counsel:
And Samuel said, When thou wast little in thine own sight, wast thou not made the head of the tribes of Israel, and the Lord anointed thee king over Israel?
Quicken me after thy lovingkindness; so shall I keep the testimony of thy mouth.
They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
Certain men, the children of Belial, are gone out from among you, and have withdrawn the inhabitants of their city, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which ye have not known;
For it was said to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.
And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin, daughter of Zidon: arise, pass over to Chittim; there also shalt thou have no rest.
For who is God save the Lord? or who is a rock save our God?
For he hath said, It profiteth a man nothing that he should delight himself with God.
Debate thy cause with thy neighbour himself; and discover not a secret to another:
For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him:
With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world will learn righteousness.
Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.
And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, and had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came again in peace.
For the Lord will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the Lord to make you his people.
And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)
For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; and he that winneth souls is wise.
The Bible verses surrounding Good Friday paint a vivid picture of sacrifice, suffering, and ultimately, boundless love. From prophecies foretelling the Messiah's ordeal to the raw accounts of Jesus' crucifixion and burial, these passages serve as a solemn reminder of the price paid for humanity's redemption. They reveal the depth of God's commitment to his creation, a commitment manifested in the ultimate act of selflessness. As we reflect on these verses, let us contemplate the weight of Jesus' sacrifice and the immeasurable gift of grace offered through his suffering. May we be moved to deeper gratitude, strengthened in our faith, and inspired to live lives that reflect the love and forgiveness displayed on that pivotal Good Friday. Let this day not just be a memory, but a catalyst for transformation and a renewed commitment to following the path of Christ.