100 Bible Verses about Gold

Proverbs 17:3 ESV / 3,563 helpful votes

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and the Lord tests hearts.

1 Peter 1:7 ESV / 3,276 helpful votes

So that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

1 Kings 9:28 ESV / 3,094 helpful votes

And they went to Ophir and brought from there gold, 420 talents, and they brought it to King Solomon.

Revelation 3:18 ESV / 3,054 helpful votes

I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.

Deuteronomy 17:17 ESV / 3,016 helpful votes

And he shall not acquire many wives for himself, lest his heart turn away, nor shall he acquire for himself excessive silver and gold.

Zechariah 13:9 ESV / 2,954 helpful votes

And I will put this third into the fire, and refine them as one refines silver, and test them as gold is tested. They will call upon my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are my people’; and they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’”

Proverbs 8:19 ESV / 2,804 helpful votes

My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.

Genesis 2:12 ESV / 2,754 helpful votes

And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.

1 Kings 10:11 ESV / 2,663 helpful votes

Moreover, the fleet of Hiram, which brought gold from Ophir, brought from Ophir a very great amount of almug wood and precious stones.

Genesis 24:22 ESV / 2,631 helpful votes

When the camels had finished drinking, the man took a gold ring weighing a half shekel, and two bracelets for her arms weighing ten gold shekels,

1 Chronicles 29:4 ESV / 2,602 helpful votes

3,000 talents of gold, of the gold of Ophir, and 7,000 talents of refined silver, for overlaying the walls of the house,

Psalm 19:10 ESV / 2,594 helpful votes

More to be desired are they than gold, even much fine gold; sweeter also than honey and drippings of the honeycomb.

Ezekiel 28:4 ESV / 2,537 helpful votes

By your wisdom and your understanding you have made wealth for yourself, and have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries;

1 Kings 10:10 ESV / 2,532 helpful votes

Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices and precious stones. Never again came such an abundance of spices as these that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

Genesis 13:2 ESV / 2,529 helpful votes

Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

Psalm 72:15 ESV / 2,484 helpful votes

Long may he live; may gold of Sheba be given to him! May prayer be made for him continually, and blessings invoked for him all the day!

Genesis 2:11-12 ESV / 2,452 helpful votes

The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold. And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and onyx stone are there.

Genesis 24:35 ESV / 2,430 helpful votes

The Lord has greatly blessed my master, and he has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, camels and donkeys.

Jeremiah 10:9 ESV / 2,250 helpful votes

Beaten silver is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz. They are the work of the craftsman and of the hands of the goldsmith; their clothing is violet and purple; they are all the work of skilled men.

Haggai 2:8 ESV / 2,234 helpful votes

The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 3:3 ESV / 2,197 helpful votes

He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver, and they will bring offerings in righteousness to the Lord.

Genesis 2:11 ESV / 2,149 helpful votes

The name of the first is the Pishon. It is the one that flowed around the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.

Exodus 20:23 ESV / 2,130 helpful votes

You shall not make gods of silver to be with me, nor shall you make for yourselves gods of gold.

Job 22:24 ESV / 2,123 helpful votes

If you lay gold in the dust, and gold of Ophir among the stones of the torrent-bed,

2 Chronicles 3:6 ESV / 2,121 helpful votes

He adorned the house with settings of precious stones. The gold was gold of Parvaim.

Proverbs 27:21 ESV / 2,114 helpful votes

The crucible is for silver, and the furnace is for gold, and a man is tested by his praise.

1 Kings 10:21 ESV / 2,088 helpful votes

All King Solomon's drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver; silver was not considered as anything in the days of Solomon.

1 Peter 3:3 ESV / 2,075 helpful votes

Do not let your adorning be external—the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear—

Job 23:10 ESV / 2,047 helpful votes

But he knows the way that I take; when he has tried me, I shall come out as gold.

Acts 3:6 ESV / 2,025 helpful votes

But Peter said, “I have no silver and gold, but what I do have I give to you. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, rise up and walk!”

Psalm 119:127 ESV / 2,018 helpful votes

Therefore I love your commandments above gold, above fine gold.

Revelation 21:1-27 ESV / 2,003 helpful votes

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” And he who was seated on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” Also he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.” ...

Psalm 45:9 ESV / 1,998 helpful votes

Daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor; at your right hand stands the queen in gold of Ophir.

1 Kings 22:48 ESV / 1,991 helpful votes

Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they did not go, for the ships were wrecked at Ezion-geber.

Proverbs 25:12 ESV / 1,953 helpful votes

Like a gold ring or an ornament of gold is a wise reprover to a listening ear.

Isaiah 2:7 ESV / 1,921 helpful votes

Their land is filled with silver and gold, and there is no end to their treasures; their land is filled with horses, and there is no end to their chariots.

1 Kings 10:2 ESV / 1,883 helpful votes

She came to Jerusalem with a very great retinue, with camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.

1 Kings 10:14 ESV / 1,870 helpful votes

Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was 666 talents of gold,

Genesis 41:42 ESV / 1,850 helpful votes

Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain about his neck.

Exodus 35:5 ESV / 1,830 helpful votes

Take from among you a contribution to the Lord. Whoever is of a generous heart, let him bring the Lord's contribution: gold, silver, and bronze;

Zechariah 9:3 ESV / 1,798 helpful votes

Tyre has built herself a rampart and heaped up silver like dust, and fine gold like the mud of the streets.

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 1,770 helpful votes

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

Proverbs 3:14 ESV / 1,753 helpful votes

For the gain from her is better than gain from silver and her profit better than gold.

Revelation 21:18 ESV / 1,730 helpful votes

The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold, like clear glass.

Joshua 22:8 ESV / 1,666 helpful votes

He said to them, “Go back to your tents with much wealth and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”

1 Peter 1:8 ESV / 1,650 helpful votes

Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,

2 Chronicles 9:9 ESV / 1,645 helpful votes

Then she gave the king 120 talents of gold, and a very great quantity of spices, and precious stones. There were no spices such as those that the queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon.

Exodus 3:22 ESV / 1,642 helpful votes

But each woman shall ask of her neighbor, and any woman who lives in her house, for silver and gold jewelry, and for clothing. You shall put them on your sons and on your daughters. So you shall plunder the Egyptians.”

Isaiah 13:12 ESV / 1,636 helpful votes

I will make people more rare than fine gold, and mankind than the gold of Ophir.

1 Chronicles 22:14 ESV / 1,595 helpful votes

With great pains I have provided for the house of the Lord 100,000 talents of gold, a million talents of silver, and bronze and iron beyond weighing, for there is so much of it; timber and stone, too, I have provided. To these you must add.

Ezekiel 7:19 ESV / 1,590 helpful votes

They cast their silver into the streets, and their gold is like an unclean thing. Their silver and gold are not able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They cannot satisfy their hunger or fill their stomachs with it. For it was the stumbling block of their iniquity.

Lamentations 4:1 ESV / 1,584 helpful votes

How the gold has grown dim, how the pure gold is changed! The holy stones lie scattered at the head of every street.

Ecclesiastes 2:8 ESV / 1,553 helpful votes

I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, the delight of the sons of man.

Proverbs 16:16 ESV / 1,545 helpful votes

How much better to get wisdom than gold! To get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Exodus 35:22 ESV / 1,530 helpful votes

So they came, both men and women. All who were of a willing heart brought brooches and earrings and signet rings and armlets, all sorts of gold objects, every man dedicating an offering of gold to the Lord.

James 2:2 ESV / 1,524 helpful votes

For if a man wearing a gold ring and fine clothing comes into your assembly, and a poor man in shabby clothing also comes in,

Matthew 10:9 ESV / 1,514 helpful votes

Acquire no gold or silver or copper for your belts,

1 Corinthians 3:12 ESV / 1,509 helpful votes

Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw—

Isaiah 60:6 ESV / 1,508 helpful votes

A multitude of camels shall cover you, the young camels of Midian and Ephah; all those from Sheba shall come. They shall bring gold and frankincense, and shall bring good news, the praises of the Lord.

1 Kings 10:17 ESV / 1,488 helpful votes

And he made 300 shields of beaten gold; three minas of gold went into each shield. And the king put them in the House of the Forest of Lebanon.

Exodus 11:2 ESV / 1,484 helpful votes

Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, for silver and gold jewelry.”

1 Kings 10:22 ESV / 1,468 helpful votes

For the king had a fleet of ships of Tarshish at sea with the fleet of Hiram. Once every three years the fleet of ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

2 Chronicles 9:21 ESV / 1,462 helpful votes

For the king's ships went to Tarshish with the servants of Hiram. Once every three years the ships of Tarshish used to come bringing gold, silver, ivory, apes, and peacocks.

Numbers 31:50 ESV / 1,461 helpful votes

And we have brought the Lord's offering, what each man found, articles of gold, armlets and bracelets, signet rings, earrings, and beads, to make atonement for ourselves before the Lord.”

Psalm 21:3 ESV / 1,446 helpful votes

For you meet him with rich blessings; you set a crown of fine gold upon his head.

1 Kings 7:49 ESV / 1,436 helpful votes

The lampstands of pure gold, five on the south side and five on the north, before the inner sanctuary; the flowers, the lamps, and the tongs, of gold;

John 3:16 ESV / 1,431 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Genesis 24:53 ESV / 1,427 helpful votes

And the servant brought out jewelry of silver and of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah. He also gave to her brother and to her mother costly ornaments.

1 Kings 6:20 ESV / 1,422 helpful votes

The inner sanctuary was twenty cubits long, twenty cubits wide, and twenty cubits high, and he overlaid it with pure gold. He also overlaid an altar of cedar.

1 Chronicles 28:18 ESV / 1,421 helpful votes

For the altar of incense made of refined gold, and its weight; also his plan for the golden chariot of the cherubim that spread their wings and covered the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

Ezekiel 27:22 ESV / 1,413 helpful votes

The traders of Sheba and Raamah traded with you; they exchanged for your wares the best of all kinds of spices and all precious stones and gold.

James 5:3 ESV / 1,410 helpful votes

Your gold and silver have corroded, and their corrosion will be evidence against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up treasure in the last days.

Psalm 45:13 ESV / 1,391 helpful votes

All glorious is the princess in her chamber, with robes interwoven with gold.

Daniel 2:38 ESV / 1,381 helpful votes

And into whose hand he has given, wherever they dwell, the children of man, the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heavens, making you rule over them all—you are the head of gold.

Exodus 25:1-40 ESV / 1,358 helpful votes

The Lord said to Moses, “Speak to the people of Israel, that they take for me a contribution. From every man whose heart moves him you shall receive the contribution for me. And this is the contribution that you shall receive from them: gold, silver, and bronze, blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, goats' hair, tanned rams' skins, goatskins, acacia wood, ...

2 Chronicles 1:15 ESV / 1,352 helpful votes

And the king made silver and gold as common in Jerusalem as stone, and he made cedar as plentiful as the sycamore of the Shephelah.

Revelation 21:21 ESV / 1,338 helpful votes

And the twelve gates were twelve pearls, each of the gates made of a single pearl, and the street of the city was pure gold, like transparent glass.

Isaiah 60:17 ESV / 1,300 helpful votes

Instead of bronze I will bring gold, and instead of iron I will bring silver; instead of wood, bronze, instead of stones, iron. I will make your overseers peace and your taskmasters righteousness.

1 Chronicles 22:16 ESV / 1,281 helpful votes

Gold, silver, bronze, and iron. Arise and work! The Lord be with you!”

1 Kings 15:15 ESV / 1,254 helpful votes

And he brought into the house of the Lord the sacred gifts of his father and his own sacred gifts, silver, and gold, and vessels.

Deuteronomy 8:13 ESV / 1,246 helpful votes

And when your herds and flocks multiply and your silver and gold is multiplied and all that you have is multiplied,

Psalm 115:4 ESV / 1,212 helpful votes

Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

1 Chronicles 29:7 ESV / 1,204 helpful votes

They gave for the service of the house of God 5,000 talents and 10,000 darics of gold, 10,000 talents of silver, 18,000 talents of bronze and 100,000 talents of iron.

Psalm 68:13 ESV / 1,197 helpful votes

Though you men lie among the sheepfolds— the wings of a dove covered with silver, its pinions with shimmering gold.

Jeremiah 4:30 ESV / 1,195 helpful votes

And you, O desolate one, what do you mean that you dress in scarlet, that you adorn yourself with ornaments of gold, that you enlarge your eyes with paint? In vain you beautify yourself. Your lovers despise you; they seek your life.

Job 28:6 ESV / 1,186 helpful votes

Its stones are the place of sapphires, and it has dust of gold.

1 Kings 7:50 ESV / 1,171 helpful votes

The cups, snuffers, basins, dishes for incense, and fire pans, of pure gold; and the sockets of gold, for the doors of the innermost part of the house, the Most Holy Place, and for the doors of the nave of the temple.

1 Kings 6:30 ESV / 1,165 helpful votes

The floor of the house he overlaid with gold in the inner and outer rooms.

1 Chronicles 29:2 ESV / 1,162 helpful votes

So I have provided for the house of my God, so far as I was able, the gold for the things of gold, the silver for the things of silver, and the bronze for the things of bronze, the iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood, besides great quantities of onyx and stones for setting, antimony, colored stones, all sorts of precious stones and marble.

1 Kings 10:18 ESV / 1,161 helpful votes

The king also made a great ivory throne and overlaid it with the finest gold.

1 Kings 12:28 ESV / 1,149 helpful votes

So the king took counsel and made two calves of gold. And he said to the people, “You have gone up to Jerusalem long enough. Behold your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.”

1 Kings 6:22 ESV / 1,141 helpful votes

And he overlaid the whole house with gold, until all the house was finished. Also the whole altar that belonged to the inner sanctuary he overlaid with gold.

Revelation 4:4 ESV / 1,132 helpful votes

Around the throne were twenty-four thrones, and seated on the thrones were twenty-four elders, clothed in white garments, with golden crowns on their heads.

Exodus 28:6 ESV / 1,115 helpful votes

“And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue and purple and scarlet yarns, and of fine twined linen, skillfully worked.

1 Chronicles 20:2 ESV / 1,110 helpful votes

And David took the crown of their king from his head. He found that it weighed a talent of gold, and in it was a precious stone. And it was placed on David's head. And he brought out the spoil of the city, a very great amount.

Revelation 14:14 ESV / 1,105 helpful votes

Then I looked, and behold, a white cloud, and seated on the cloud one like a son of man, with a golden crown on his head, and a sharp sickle in his hand.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 1,086 helpful votes

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

1 Chronicles 18:7 ESV / 1,069 helpful votes

And David took the shields of gold that were carried by the servants of Hadadezer and brought them to Jerusalem.

Joshua 6:19 ESV / 1,060 helpful votes

But all silver and gold, and every vessel of bronze and iron, are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.”

2 Chronicles 9:1 ESV / 972 helpful votes

Now when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to Jerusalem to test him with hard questions, having a very great retinue and camels bearing spices and very much gold and precious stones. And when she came to Solomon, she told him all that was on her mind.

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