What Does the Bible Say About Bones?

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 113 helpful votes

A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Ezekiel 37:1-5 ESV / 97 helpful votes

The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out in the Spirit of the Lord and set me down in the middle of the valley; it was full of bones. And he led me around among them, and behold, there were very many on the surface of the valley, and behold, they were very dry. And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.” Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord. Thus says the Lord God to these bones: Behold, I will cause breath to enter you, and you shall live.

Proverbs 15:30 ESV / 83 helpful votes

The light of the eyes rejoices the heart, and good news refreshes the bones.

Proverbs 3:7-8 ESV / 77 helpful votes

Be not wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord, and turn away from evil. It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.

Psalm 51:8 ESV / 62 helpful votes

Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones that you have broken rejoice.

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 60 helpful votes

For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.

Proverbs 14:30 ESV / 55 helpful votes

A tranquil heart gives life to the flesh, but envy makes the bones rot.

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 45 helpful votes

Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body.

Proverbs 3:8 ESV / 45 helpful votes

It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.

Job 40:18 ESV / 45 helpful votes

His bones are tubes of bronze, his limbs like bars of iron.

Psalm 34:20 ESV / 41 helpful votes

He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.

Genesis 2:23-24 ESV / 38 helpful votes

Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.” Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and they shall become one flesh.

Job 10:8-12 ESV / 27 helpful votes

Your hands fashioned and made me, and now you have destroyed me altogether. Remember that you have made me like clay; and will you return me to the dust? Did you not pour me out like milk and curdle me like cheese? You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews. You have granted me life and steadfast love, and your care has preserved my spirit.

Isaiah 58:11 ESV / 25 helpful votes

And the Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

Exodus 13:19 ESV / 23 helpful votes

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with you from here.”

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 19 helpful votes

He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, ...

Genesis 2:23 ESV / 19 helpful votes

Then the man said, “This at last is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.”

Genesis 50:25 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Then Joseph made the sons of Israel swear, saying, “God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.”

John 1:1-21:25 ESV / 17 helpful votes

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it. ...

Ezekiel 37:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes

Then he said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Behold, they say, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are indeed cut off.’

Exodus 12:46 ESV / 14 helpful votes

It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones.

Psalm 32:3 ESV / 13 helpful votes

For when I kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long.

Ezekiel 37:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Then he said to me, “Prophesy over these bones, and say to them, O dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

Ezekiel 37:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes

And he said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” And I answered, “O Lord God, you know.”

John 19:36 ESV / 11 helpful votes

For these things took place that the Scripture might be fulfilled: “Not one of his bones will be broken.”

Jeremiah 8:1-22 ESV / 11 helpful votes

“At that time, declares the Lord, the bones of the kings of Judah, the bones of its officials, the bones of the priests, the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem shall be brought out of their tombs. And they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. And they shall not be gathered or buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. Death shall be preferred to life by all the remnant that remains of this evil family in all the places where I have driven them, declares the Lord of hosts. “You shall say to them, Thus says the Lord: When men fall, do they not rise again? If one turns away, does he not return? Why then has this people turned away in perpetual backsliding? They hold fast to deceit; they refuse to return. ...

Luke 24:39 ESV / 10 helpful votes

See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.”

Ephesians 5:30 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Because we are members of his body.

John 14:1-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes

“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me. In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also. And you know the way to where I am going.” Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?” ...

Psalm 1:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes

Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers;

1 Corinthians 15:53 ESV / 8 helpful votes

For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality.

Romans 8:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes

You, however, are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if in fact the Spirit of God dwells in you. Anyone who does not have the Spirit of Christ does not belong to him.

Judges 9:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes

“Say in the ears of all the leaders of Shechem, ‘Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?’ Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.”

Genesis 29:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes

And Laban said to him, “Surely you are my bone and my flesh!” And he stayed with him a month.

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 7 helpful votes

He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.

1 Samuel 31:12-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

All the valiant men arose and went all night and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan, and they came to Jabesh and burned them there. And they took their bones and buried them under the tamarisk tree in Jabesh and fasted seven days.

Job 4:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Dread came upon me, and trembling, which made all my bones shake.

Leviticus 18:1-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord. ...

38 Bible Verses about Bones

Proverbs 17:22 ESV / 113 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 37:1-5 ESV / 97 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 15:30 ESV / 83 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:7-8 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 51:8 ESV / 62 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 60 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 14:30 ESV / 55 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 16:24 ESV / 45 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Proverbs 3:8 ESV / 45 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 40:18 ESV / 45 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 34:20 ESV / 41 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:23-24 ESV / 38 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 10:8-12 ESV / 27 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 58:11 ESV / 25 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 13:19 ESV / 23 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 2:23 ESV / 19 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 50:25 ESV / 18 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 1:1-21:25 ESV / 17 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 37:11 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 12:46 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 32:3 ESV / 13 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 37:4 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ezekiel 37:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 19:36 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jeremiah 8:1-22 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 24:39 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 5:30 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

John 14:1-31 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 1:1 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Corinthians 15:53 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Romans 8:9 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Judges 9:2 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 29:14 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Peter 2:24 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

1 Samuel 31:12-13 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Job 4:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Leviticus 18:1-30 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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