What Does the Bible Say About Secrets?

Luke 8:17 ESV / 32 helpful votes

For nothing is hidden that will not be made manifest, nor is anything secret that will not be known and come to light.

Proverbs 25:9 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Argue your case with your neighbor himself, and do not reveal another's secret,

Hebrews 4:13 ESV / 14 helpful votes

And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

Mark 4:22 ESV / 13 helpful votes

For nothing is hidden except to be made manifest; nor is anything secret except to come to light.

Ecclesiastes 12:14 ESV / 13 helpful votes

For God will bring every deed into judgment, with every secret thing, whether good or evil.

Psalm 44:21 ESV / 12 helpful votes

Would not God discover this? For he knows the secrets of the heart.

Romans 2:16 ESV / 9 helpful votes

On that day when, according to my gospel, God judges the secrets of men by Christ Jesus.

Luke 12:3 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.

Daniel 2:28 ESV / 6 helpful votes

But there is a God in heaven who reveals mysteries, and he has made known to King Nebuchadnezzar what will be in the latter days. Your dream and the visions of your head as you lay in bed are these:

Psalm 25:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.

Luke 8:16 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“No one after lighting a lamp covers it with a jar or puts it under a bed, but puts it on a stand, so that those who enter may see the light.

Matthew 6:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

1 Corinthians 4:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. Then each one will receive his commendation from God.

Matthew 18:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“If your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault, between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained your brother.

Matthew 2:16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Then Herod, when he saw that he had been tricked by the wise men, became furious, and he sent and killed all the male children in Bethlehem and in all that region who were two years old or under, according to the time that he had ascertained from the wise men.

Psalm 90:8 ESV / 4 helpful votes

You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.

2 Kings 19:27 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“But I know your sitting down and your going out and coming in, and your raging against me.

1 Samuel 16:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”

Hebrews 4:12 ESV / 3 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.

Matthew 6:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Amos 3:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“For the Lord God does nothing without revealing his secret to his servants the prophets.

Romans 1:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents,

John 3:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. ...

Daniel 2:47 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The king answered and said to Daniel, “Truly, your God is God of gods and Lord of kings, and a revealer of mysteries, for you have been able to reveal this mystery.”

Psalm 139:13-16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For you formed my inward parts; you knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well. My frame was not hidden from you, when I was being made in secret, intricately woven in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed substance; in your book were written, every one of them, the days that were formed for me, when as yet there was none of them.

John 2:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And he told those who sold the pigeons, “Take these things away; do not make my Father's house a house of trade.”

Proverbs 24:11-12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Rescue those who are being taken away to death; hold back those who are stumbling to the slaughter. If you say, “Behold, we did not know this,” does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who keeps watch over your soul know it, and will he not repay man according to his work?

2 Samuel 7:20 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And what more can David say to you? For you know your servant, O Lord God!

Bible Verses about Secrets