100 Bible Verses About Witness
Bible verses about Witness
Scripture illuminates the profound call to witness, not merely as observers, but as active participants in sharing the transformative power of faith. Exploring these verses reveals the heart of discipleship: a life lived as a testament to God's love, grace, and truth. Understanding witness through scripture equips us to articulate our beliefs with confidence and compassion, reflecting the light of Christ in our daily interactions. It empowers us to be beacons of hope, drawing others closer to the divine, and fulfilling the Great Commission with renewed purpose and unwavering conviction.
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1 Samuel 14:43 (KJV)
Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
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And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
The ransom of a man’s life are his riches: but the poor heareth not rebuke.
To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?
And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,
Then the Lord put forth his hand, and touched my mouth. And the Lord said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.
I made haste, and delayed not to keep thy commandments.
Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.
And he said unto them, The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.
And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the Lord be between thee and me for ever.
Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.
Then the priest shall take the jealousy offering out of the woman’s hand, and shall wave the offering before the Lord, and offer it upon the altar:
But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people.
And if it be stolen from him, he shall make restitution unto the owner thereof.
Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.
Now therefore come thou, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.
The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them.
And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.
And Joab said unto the king, Now the Lord thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?
And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning, and bread and flesh in the evening; and he drank of the brook.
Whereas thou hast searched all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff? set it here before my brethren and thy brethren, that they may judge betwixt us both.
Then shall his brother’s wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother’s house.
And he answered him, I am: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.
And one of his servants answered and said, Let some take, I pray thee, five of the horses that remain, which are left in the city, (behold, they are as all the multitude of Israel that are left in it: behold, I say, they are even as all the multitude of the Israelites that are consumed:) and let us send and see.
And we said unto him, We are true men; we are no spies:
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.
He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:
A man that beareth false witness against his neighbour is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.
For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.
But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them, and, behold, the flame of the city ascended up to heaven.
And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
And the man said unto Joab, Though I should receive a thousand shekels of silver in mine hand, yet would I not put forth mine hand against the king’s son: for in our hearing the king charged thee and Abishai and Ittai, saying, Beware that none touch the young man Absalom.
Lay thine hand upon him, remember the battle, do no more.
And the damsel’s father shall say unto the elders, I gave my daughter unto this man to wife, and he hateth her;
Thou hast heard, see all this; and will not ye declare it? I have shewed thee new things from this time, even hidden things, and thou didst not know them.
And Aaron spake all the words which the Lord had spoken unto Moses, and did the signs in the sight of the people.
If there be yet many years behind, according unto them he shall give again the price of his redemption out of the money that he was bought for.
Moreover the Lord said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man’s pen concerning Maher–shalal–hash–baz.
But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.
Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.
Thou art snared with the words of thy mouth, thou art taken with the words of thy mouth.
All the days of his separation he is holy unto the Lord.
And Sarah my master’s wife bare a son to my master when she was old: and unto him hath he given all that he hath.
But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
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:
A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.
He that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him.
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
He that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life: but he that openeth wide his lips shall have destruction.
Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips.
Then a lord on whose hand the king leaned answered the man of God, and said, Behold, if the Lord would make windows in heaven, might this thing be? And he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof.
And Moses brought out all the rods from before the Lord unto all the children of Israel: and they looked, and took every man his rod.
And if he smite him with an instrument of iron, so that he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.
Breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him again.
And when Hezekiah and the princes came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord, and his people Israel.
Now if thou shalt kill all this people as one man, then the nations which have heard the fame of thee will speak, saying,
The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.
And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is an holy man of God, which passeth by us continually.
And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith the Lord, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
And he said unto me, Who art thou? And I answered him, I am an Amalekite.
But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.
Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
If the thief be not found, then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he have put his hand unto his neighbour’s goods.
And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.
And they said, An Egyptian delivered us out of the hand of the shepherds, and also drew water enough for us, and watered the flock.
And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
And it came to pass, when he saw the earring and bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he stood by the camels at the well.
This heap be witness, and this pillar be witness, that I will not pass over this heap to thee, and that thou shalt not pass over this heap and this pillar unto me, for harm.
And if a man cause a blemish in his neighbour; as he hath done, so shall it be done to him;
And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, because thou art yet alive.
A false witness shall not be unpunished, and he that speaketh lies shall perish.
And the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the Lord, that he did for Israel.
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
And he that killeth a beast shall make it good; beast for beast.
And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
Or with any stone, wherewith a man may die, seeing him not, and cast it upon him, that he die, and was not his enemy, neither sought his harm:
No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge: for he taketh a man’s life to pledge.
For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.
And Lot went out at the door unto them, and shut the door after him,
And it came to pass the third day after that I was delivered, that this woman was delivered also: and we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, save we two in the house.
And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.
And there was set meat before him to eat: but he said, I will not eat, until I have told mine errand. And he said, Speak on.
Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbour: I am the Lord.
And Amasa wallowed in blood in the midst of the highway. And when the man saw that all the people stood still, he removed Amasa out of the highway into the field, and cast a cloth upon him, when he saw that every one that came by him stood still.
If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.
And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow?
And Moses laid up the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of witness.
And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.
Confidence in an unfaithful man in time of trouble is like a broken tooth, and a foot out of joint.
And they shall be unto you cities for refuge from the avenger; that the manslayer die not, until he stand before the congregation in judgment.
But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,
The Bible resounds with a clear and consistent call to witness, echoed in verses spanning from the Old Testament prophets to the New Testament apostles. These scriptures illuminate the multifaceted nature of witnessing: living a life that reflects God's character, boldly proclaiming the Gospel, and sharing personal experiences of faith. They underscore the profound responsibility and privilege bestowed upon believers to be ambassadors for Christ, sharing the good news of salvation with a world in need of hope. As we reflect on these verses, let us consider how we can more faithfully and actively embody the spirit of witness in our daily lives. May we be empowered by the Holy Spirit to not only speak of God's love but also to demonstrate it through our actions, drawing others closer to Him. Let our lives be a testament to the transformative power of faith.