Bible Verses about โpaintingโ
The Bible contains 32 verses about painting across both Old and New Testaments. These scriptures offer guidance and inspiration for your spiritual journey.
โThe twelve gates were twelve pearls. Each one of the gates was made of one pearl. The street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.โ
โThe foundations of the city's wall were adorned with all kinds of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;โ
โthe fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; and the twelfth, amethyst.โ
โThe construction of its wall was jasper. The city was pure gold, like pure glass.โ
โhow much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, cleanse your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?โ
โHe has filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship;โ
โHe has filled them with wisdom of heart, to work all kinds of workmanship, of the engraver, of the skillful workman, and of the embroiderer, in blue, in purple, in scarlet, and in fine linen, and of the weaver, even of those who do any workmanship, and of those who make skillful works.โ
โand I have filled him with the Spirit of God, in wisdom, and in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all kinds of workmanship,โ
โto devise skillful works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,โ
โand in cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of workmanship.โ
โand to make skillful works, to work in gold, in silver, in brass,โ
โThe carpenter stretches out a line. He marks it out with a pencil. He shapes it with planes. He marks it out with compasses, and shapes it like the figure of a man, with the beauty of a man, to reside in a house.โ
โYahweh spoke to Moses, saying,โ
โ"Behold, I have called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:โ
โin cutting of stones for setting, and in carving of wood, to work in all kinds of skillful workmanship.โ
โI, behold, I have appointed with him Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan; and in the heart of all who are wise-hearted I have put wisdom, that they may make all that I have commanded you:โ
โBeing then the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold, or silver, or stone, engraved by art and design of man.โ
โMoses said to the children of Israel, "Behold, Yahweh has called by name Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah.โ
โHe has put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Oholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.โ
โShe increased her prostitution; for she saw men portrayed on the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,โ
โHe overlaid also the house, the beams, the thresholds, and its walls, and its doors, with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.โ
โdressed with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.โ
โAs soon as she saw them she doted on them, and sent messengers to them into Chaldea.โ
โThe Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their prostitution, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.โ
โthe son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skillful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to engrave any kind of engraving, and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed to him with your skillful men, and with the skillful men of my lord David your father.โ
โHe garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.โ
โ"What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?โ
โHe carved all the walls of the house around with carved figures of cherubim and palm trees and open flowers, inside and outside.โ
โThe greater house he made a ceiling with fir wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.โ
โwho says, I will build me a wide house and spacious rooms, and cuts him out windows; and it is ceiling with cedar, and painted with vermilion.โ
โSo I went in and saw; and see, every form of creeping things, and abominable animals, and all the idols of the house of Israel, portrayed around on the wall.โ
โHe carved [thereon] cherubim and palm trees and open flowers; and he overlaid them with gold fitted on the engraved work.โ
