87 Bible Verses About Angels

Bible verses about Angels

Exploring the scriptures on angels unveils a realm of divine messengers, revealing God's active presence and care in our lives. Understanding their role, as depicted in the Bible, offers profound comfort and reassurance. Angels are more than just mythical beings; they are powerful servants of God, ministering to those who inherit salvation and executing His will. By studying these verses, we gain a deeper appreciation for the unseen spiritual forces at work, strengthening our faith and reminding us that we are never truly alone, surrounded by a heavenly host sent to protect and guide us on our earthly journey.

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Psalms 68:17 (KJV)

The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

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Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

Psalms 74:22KJV

For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

Deuteronomy 23:14KJV

But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall on that side.

Numbers 22:24KJV

Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not be unpunished: but the seed of the righteous shall be delivered.

Proverbs 11:21KJV

Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore.

Psalms 37:27KJV

And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.

Genesis 19:3KJV

My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee; and my soul, which thou hast redeemed.

Psalms 71:23KJV

The Lord hath prepared his throne in the heavens; and his kingdom ruleth over all.

Psalms 103:19KJV

I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

Isaiah 14:14KJV

Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Exodus 30:22KJV

And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll: and all their host shall fall down, as the leaf falleth off from the vine, and as a falling fig from the fig tree.

Isaiah 34:4KJV

Man did eat angels’ food: he sent them meat to the full.

Psalms 78:25KJV

The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.

Proverbs 15:24KJV

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations!

Isaiah 14:12KJV

For the cherubims spread forth their two wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above.

1 Kings 8:7KJV

This gate of the Lord, into which the righteous shall enter.

Psalms 118:20KJV

They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.

Psalms 91:12KJV

The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

Proverbs 3:33KJV

Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven.

Psalms 85:11KJV

And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

Genesis 18:26KJV

And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

Numbers 28:1KJV

And five cubits was the one wing of the cherub, and five cubits the other wing of the cherub: from the uttermost part of the one wing unto the uttermost part of the other were ten cubits.

1 Kings 6:24KJV

In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

Proverbs 29:6KJV

And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city.

Genesis 19:15KJV

The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

Psalms 68:17KJV

Lord, I have hoped for thy salvation, and done thy commandments.

Psalms 119:166KJV

And he dreamed, and behold a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it.

Genesis 28:12KJV

But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.

Psalms 44:7KJV

He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.

Psalms 72:14KJV

But David could not go before it to enquire of God: for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of the Lord.

1 Chronicles 21:30KJV

The Lord preserveth all them that love him: but all the wicked will he destroy.

Psalms 145:20KJV

For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

Genesis 19:13KJV

Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

Isaiah 51:6KJV

All the kings of the earth shall praise thee, O Lord, when they hear the words of thy mouth.

Psalms 138:4KJV

And he set the cherubims within the inner house: and they stretched forth the wings of the cherubims, so that the wing of the one touched the one wall, and the wing of the other cherub touched the other wall; and their wings touched one another in the midst of the house.

1 Kings 6:27KJV

Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

Song of Solomon 4:7KJV

Be thou exalted, O God, above the heavens: and thy glory above all the earth;

Psalms 108:5KJV

He hath delivered my soul in peace from the battle that was against me: for there were many with me.

Psalms 55:18KJV

The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the Lord of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

Isaiah 13:4KJV

They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.

Judges 5:20KJV

All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

Psalms 22:29KJV

My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

Psalms 119:28KJV

Then the Lord opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand: and he bowed down his head, and fell flat on his face.

Numbers 22:31KJV

The Lord hath made all things for himself: yea, even the wicked for the day of evil.

Proverbs 16:4KJV

Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.

Psalms 150:6KJV

Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs.

Psalms 74:4KJV

O bless our God, ye people, and make the voice of his praise to be heard:

Psalms 66:8KJV

For they intended evil against thee: they imagined a mischievous device, which they are not able to perform.

Psalms 21:11KJV

And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.

Genesis 18:22KJV

And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

Isaiah 6:3KJV

And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.

1 Kings 6:25KJV

And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.

1 Kings 11:39KJV

And the heavens shall praise thy wonders, O Lord: thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints.

Psalms 89:5KJV

The dead praise not the Lord, neither any that go down into silence.

Psalms 115:17KJV

For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

Psalms 86:13KJV

Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.

Psalms 99:9KJV

Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:

Job 4:18KJV

And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

2 Samuel 24:16KJV

For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.

Psalms 8:5KJV

For who in the heaven can be compared unto the Lord? who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the Lord?

Psalms 89:6KJV

The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

Proverbs 15:26KJV

The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips: but the just shall come out of trouble.

Proverbs 12:13KJV

He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.

Psalms 78:49KJV

And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

Deuteronomy 5:10KJV

There the wicked cease from troubling; and there the weary be at rest.

Job 3:17KJV

For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

Psalms 91:11KJV

All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.

Psalms 45:8KJV

And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God’s host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.

Genesis 32:2KJV

Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and for evermore.

Psalms 113:2KJV

The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward.

Proverbs 11:18KJV

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

Romans 8:38NIV

They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the Lord: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

Proverbs 11:20KJV

And Lot said unto them, Oh, not so, my Lord:

Genesis 19:18KJV

(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)

Psalms 49:8KJV

Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men.

Psalms 59:2KJV

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Psalms 91:7KJV

Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.

Psalms 74:18KJV

Unto thee lift I up mine eyes, O thou that dwellest in the heavens.

Psalms 123:1KJV

Say unto God, How terrible art thou in thy works! through the greatness of thy power shall thine enemies submit themselves unto thee.

Psalms 66:3KJV

Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.

Isaiah 33:17KJV

And the ass saw me, and turned from me these three times: unless she had turned from me, surely now also I had slain thee, and saved her alive.

Numbers 22:33KJV

And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the Lord.

Psalms 27:6KJV

But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth.

Psalms 63:9KJV

Thou shalt not be affrighted at them: for the Lord thy God is among you, a mighty God and terrible.

Deuteronomy 7:21KJV

They compassed me about; yea, they compassed me about: but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.

Psalms 118:11KJV

I will send my fear before thee, and will destroy all the people to whom thou shalt come, and I will make all thine enemies turn their backs unto thee.

Exodus 23:27KJV

And make one cherub on the one end, and the other cherub on the other end: even of the mercy seat shall ye make the cherubims on the two ends thereof.

Exodus 25:19KJV

Through these selected verses, we gain a glimpse into the multifaceted role of angels as messengers, protectors, and warriors in God's divine plan. From Gabriel's momentous announcements to the heavenly host's powerful displays, these scriptures underscore the consistent presence and active involvement of angels in human affairs and the unfolding of God's will. Reflecting on these passages encourages us to recognize the unseen spiritual realm and acknowledge the comforting reality of divine assistance available to those who trust in God. While we are not to worship angels, understanding their purpose inspires awe and reinforces the immensity of God's creation and his unwavering care for his people. May this study motivate us to seek God's guidance, remain steadfast in faith, and find solace in knowing we are not alone on our earthly journey.