Bible Verses about “candles”
The Bible contains 35 verses about candles across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“‹Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven.›”
“‹Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid.›”
“‹Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.›”
“¶ NUN. Thy word [is] a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”
“‹Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent.›”
“[I am] ‹he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.›”
“And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.”
“His head and [his] hairs [were] white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes [were] as a flame of fire;”
“And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;”
“And in the midst of the seven candlesticks [one] like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot, and girt about the paps with a golden girdle.”
“‹The mystery of the seven stars which thou sawest in my right hand, and the seven golden candlesticks. The seven stars are the angels of the seven churches: and the seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches.›”
“And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, ‹Fear not; I am the first and the last:›”
“‹Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;›”
“And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance [was] as the sun shineth in his strength.”
“For there shall be no reward to the evil [man]; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.”
“¶ And he said unto them, ‹Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?›”
“‹Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find› [it]?”
“Three bowls made like unto almonds, [with] a knop and a flower in one branch; and three bowls made like almonds in the other branch, [with] a knop and a flower: so in the six branches that come out of the candlestick.”
“And in the candlestick [shall be] four bowls made like unto almonds, [with] their knops and their flowers.”
“And look that thou make [them] after their pattern, which was shewed thee in the mount.”
“‹No man, when he hath lighted a candle, putteth› [it] ‹in a secret place, neither under a bushel, but on a candlestick, that they which come in may see the light.›”
“¶ And thou shalt make a candlestick [of] pure gold: [of] beaten work shall the candlestick be made: his shaft, and his branches, his bowls, his knops, and his flowers, shall be of the same.”
“And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:”
“And [there shall be] a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, and a knop under two branches of the same, according to the six branches that proceed out of the candlestick.”
“Their knops and their branches shall be of the same: all it [shall be] one beaten work [of] pure gold.”
“And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof: and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may give light over against it.”
“And the tongs thereof, and the snuffdishes thereof, [shall be of] pure gold.”
“[Of] a talent of pure gold shall he make it, with all these vessels.”
“¶ The spirit of man [is] the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly.”
“Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee pure oil olive beaten for the light, to cause the lamps to burn continually.”
“For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.”
“He shall order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before the LORD continually.”
“And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all [of] gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which [are] upon the top thereof:”
“Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: [it shall be] a statute for ever in your generations.”
“And they burn unto the LORD every morning and every evening burnt sacrifices and sweet incense: the shewbread also [set they in order] upon the pure table; and the candlestick of gold with the lamps thereof, to burn every evening: for we keep the charge of the LORD our God; but ye have forsaken him.”