100 Bible Verses About Relationship with God
Bible verses about Relationship with God
Delving into scripture to understand our relationship with God is a journey into the heart of existence itself. Within these sacred verses, we discover the profound love, unwavering guidance, and eternal connection that define our purpose. These verses illuminate the path to a deeper understanding of God's character and our role in His divine narrative. By exploring these passages, we open ourselves to a transformative experience, fostering a relationship built on faith, trust, and unconditional love. May these verses serve as a beacon, illuminating the way to a more intimate and fulfilling relationship with the Almighty.
Featured Verse
Isaiah 64:9 (KJV)
Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
Finding God: Bible Verses for a Deeper Connection
And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.
Moreover the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.
And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
And he said, I beseech thee, shew me thy glory.
And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,
Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
And yet for all that, when they be in the land of their enemies, I will not cast them away, neither will I abhor them, to destroy them utterly, and to break my covenant with them: for I am the Lord their God.
And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord for his issue.
And Moses spake unto the Lord, saying,
I said unto the Lord, Thou art my God: hear the voice of my supplications, O Lord.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.
When a man’s ways please the Lord, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.
And to make thee high above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an holy people unto the Lord thy God, as he hath spoken.
Unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
And what can David say more unto thee? for thou, Lord God, knowest thy servant.
And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.
Thus saith the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me.
That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord.
Then will I go unto the altar of God, unto God my exceeding joy: yea, upon the harp will I praise thee, O God my God.
Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto thee, when I lift up my hands toward thy holy oracle.
And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:
But I trusted in thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my God.
And David fled from Naioth in Ramah, and came and said before Jonathan, What have I done? what is mine iniquity? and what is my sin before thy father, that he seeketh my life?
And all the tithe of the land, whether of the seed of the land, or of the fruit of the tree, is the Lord’s: it is holy unto the Lord.
Wherefore it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these judgments, and keep, and do them, that the Lord thy God shall keep unto thee the covenant and the mercy which he sware unto thy fathers:
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:
That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day:
Doubtless thou art our father, though Abraham be ignorant of us, and Israel acknowledge us not: thou, O Lord, art our father, our redeemer; thy name is from everlasting.
For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.
Then Sarah denied, saying, I laughed not; for she was afraid. And he said, Nay; but thou didst laugh.
And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies.
Hear the right, O Lord, attend unto my cry, give ear unto my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips.
And Jacob said, Nay, I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present at my hand: for therefore I have seen thy face, as though I had seen the face of God, and thou wast pleased with me.
And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
This is the generation of them that seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer.
Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;
And I besought the Lord at that time, saying,
My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En–gedi.
My soul cleaveth unto the dust: quicken thou me according to thy word.
Give ear, O Lord, unto my prayer; and attend to the voice of my supplications.
I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.
If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the Lord, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,
And I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will be their God.
Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:
And he was there with the Lord forty days and forty nights; he did neither eat bread, nor drink water. And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments.
I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies.
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!
Hear, O my people, and I will speak; O Israel, and I will testify against thee: I am God, even thy God.
And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.
For thou, O Lord of hosts, God of Israel, hast revealed to thy servant, saying, I will build thee an house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart to pray this prayer unto thee.
O how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.
O Lord, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.
He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
For all his judgments were before me, and I did not put away his statutes from me.
Then call thou, and I will answer: or let me speak, and answer thou me.
Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High.
Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and holdest me for thine enemy?
But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.
Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.
But it is good for me to draw near to God: I have put my trust in the Lord God, that I may declare all thy works.
But verily God hath heard me; he hath attended to the voice of my prayer.
Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Israel, the Saviour.
For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the Lord: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit, and trembleth at my word.
And the Lord said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
And Moses, and Aaron, and all the congregation of the children of Israel, did to the Levites according unto all that the Lord commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did the children of Israel unto them.
Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.
For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
And the man bowed down his head, and worshipped the Lord.
But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you.
I have likened the daughter of Zion to a comely and delicate woman.
And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.
If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.
He shall cry unto me, Thou art my father, my God, and the rock of my salvation.
Which I commanded your fathers in the day that I brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, from the iron furnace, saying, Obey my voice, and do them, according to all which I command you: so shall ye be my people, and I will be your God:
And he went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the Lord.
And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.
Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God.
For I have kept the ways of the Lord, and have not wickedly departed from my God.
Only do not two things unto me: then will I not hide myself from thee.
Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?
This I had, because I kept thy precepts.
Thus saith the Lord that made thee, and formed thee from the womb, which will help thee; Fear not, O Jacob, my servant; and thou, Jesurun, whom I have chosen.
Be not wroth very sore, O Lord, neither remember iniquity for ever: behold, see, we beseech thee, we are all thy people.
The Bible offers a rich tapestry of verses illuminating our relationship with God, from seeking Him with all our heart as Jeremiah urges, to trusting in His guidance as Proverbs advises, and resting in His love as John proclaims. These verses collectively emphasize the dynamic nature of this connection – a blend of seeking, surrendering, trusting, and abiding. Reflecting on these passages allows us to examine the depth of our own commitment and identify areas where we can draw closer to the Divine. Cultivating a vibrant relationship with God requires intentionality, prayer, and a willingness to align our lives with His teachings. May these verses serve as a continual source of inspiration and encouragement on your journey of faith, reminding you that God's love and presence are always available to those who seek Him.