100 Bible Verses About Holy Week
Bible verses about Holy Week
Holy Week, a sacred journey through the final days of Jesus, is powerfully illuminated through scripture. Understanding these verses allows us to intimately connect with the profound sacrifice and boundless love that defines our faith. As we delve into the accounts of the Triumphal Entry, the Last Supper, the crucifixion, and the resurrection, we are invited to contemplate the depths of Christ's humanity and divinity. These scriptures are not just historical records; they are living testaments to hope, redemption, and the promise of eternal life offered to all who believe. Let the Word guide you, enriching your spirit and deepening your appreciation for the cornerstone of Christian belief.
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Proverbs 18:15 (KJV)
The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
Holy Week Bible Verses: Reflect, Remember, Rejoice!
Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.
Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.
He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.
And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.
For, lo, thine enemies, O Lord, for, lo, thine enemies shall perish; all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
When a wicked man dieth, his expectation shall perish: and the hope of unjust men perisheth.
And it shall come to pass, that him that escapeth the sword of Hazael shall Jehu slay: and him that escapeth from the sword of Jehu shall Elisha slay.
Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.
The Lord shall bless thee out of Zion: and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem all the days of thy life.
They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.
Surely oppression maketh a wise man mad; and a gift destroyeth the heart.
For she sitteth at the door of her house, on a seat in the high places of the city,
When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;
He will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light.
They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.
I was also upright before him, and have kept myself from mine iniquity.
Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me:
Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
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.
Because they provoked his spirit, so that he spake unadvisedly with his lips.
Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the people which are round about you;
A wise man’s heart is at his right hand; but a fool’s heart at his left.
He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
Therefore the Son of man is Lord also of the sabbath.
But were mingled among the heathen, and learned their works.
And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.
The wicked are overthrown, and are not: but the house of the righteous shall stand.
If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me:
He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the Lord.
His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s: he shall return to the days of his youth:
The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.
The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge.
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
The adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall he thunder upon them: the Lord shall judge the ends of the earth; and he shall give strength unto his king, and exalt the horn of his anointed.
And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
I was also upright before him, and I kept myself from mine iniquity.
And he saw a chariot with a couple of horsemen, a chariot of asses, and a chariot of camels; and he hearkened diligently with much heed:
Lo, we heard of it at Ephratah: we found it in the fields of the wood.
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
He hath also prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.
And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.
And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.
And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.
Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities.
This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.
The troubles of my heart are enlarged: O bring thou me out of my distresses.
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;
Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?
Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the Lord: for great is the glory of the Lord.
When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin.
Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep:
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:
Thy men shall fall by the sword, and thy mighty in the war.
And he spake unto the congregation, saying, Depart, I pray you, from the tents of these wicked men, and touch nothing of theirs, lest ye be consumed in all their sins.
Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.
The strangers shall fade away, and be afraid out of their close places.
And thou shalt take no gift: for the gift blindeth the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.
And Moses returned unto the Lord, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.
Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most High, thy habitation;
That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion.
Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?
Thou compassest my path and my lying down, and art acquainted with all my ways.
And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.
For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise ye the Lord.
Ye are blessed of the Lord which made heaven and earth.
I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
Say ye not, A confederacy, to all them to whom this people shall say, A confederacy; neither fear ye their fear, nor be afraid.
The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips, and the tongue that speaketh proud things:
Behold, the Lord God will come with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him: behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
one kid of the goats to make atonement for you;
Then on the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw the place afar off.
He that rebuketh a man afterwards shall find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.
Yea, let none that wait on thee be ashamed: let them be ashamed which transgress without cause.
And he gave them their request; but sent leanness into their soul.
Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
I have sinned; what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? why hast thou set me as a mark against thee, so that I am a burden to myself?
There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah.
And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.
Reflecting on these verses illuminates the profound narrative of Holy Week, a period of intense spiritual significance marked by Jesus's humble entry into Jerusalem, the Last Supper's institution of communion, His agonizing prayer in Gethsemane, the betrayal and unjust trial, the crucifixion's ultimate sacrifice, and the promise of resurrection. These scriptures are not mere historical accounts, but potent reminders of God's unwavering love and the cost of redemption. May these verses encourage deep personal reflection on Christ's suffering and triumph over sin and death. Let them inspire a renewed commitment to living out the Gospel message of love, forgiveness, and hope, embracing the promise of eternal life offered through His sacrifice, and sharing this transformative grace with the world.