Bible Verses about “raising hands”

“¶ In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;”

“But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good works.”

“I will therefore that men pray every where, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and doubting.”

“And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.”

“My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.”

“¶ And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.”

“Lift up your hands [in] the sanctuary, and bless the LORD.”

“Thus will I bless thee while I live: I will lift up my hands in thy name.”

“And it came to pass, when Moses held up his hand, that Israel prevailed: and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.”

“Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.”

“Let my prayer be set forth before thee [as] incense; [and] the lifting up of my hands [as] the evening sacrifice.”

“But Moses' hands [were] heavy; and they took a stone, and put [it] under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.”

“¶ And Solomon stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven:”

“And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with [their] faces to the ground.”

“Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.”

“¶ And he stood before the altar of the LORD in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands:”

“For Solomon had made a brasen scaffold, of five cubits long, and five cubits broad, and three cubits high, and had set it in the midst of the court: and upon it he stood, and kneeled down upon his knees before all the congregation of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven,”

“Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens.”

“¶ And it was [so], that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the LORD, he arose from before the altar of the LORD, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.”

“I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.”