Bible Verses about “doves”
The Bible contains 12 verses about doves across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
“Who [are] these [that] fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?”
“¶ ‹Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.›”
“‹I and› [my] ‹Father are one.›”
“And John bare record, saying, I saw the Spirit descending from heaven like a dove, and it abode upon him.”
“And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:”
“And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased.”
“And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth [was] an olive leaf pluckt off: so Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.”
“Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground;”
“And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;”
“But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters [were] on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.”
“And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting:”
“And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.”