What Does the Bible Say About Stillness?

Psalm 46:10 ESV / 19 helpful votes

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”

Numbers 9:8 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And Moses said to them, “Wait, that I may hear what the Lord will command concerning you.”

1 Samuel 12:7 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Now therefore stand still that I may plead with you before the Lord concerning all the righteous deeds of the Lord that he performed for you and for your fathers.

Exodus 14:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And Moses said to the people, “Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the Lord, which he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you shall never see again.

Isaiah 4:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes

There will be a booth for shade by day from the heat, and for a refuge and a shelter from the storm and rain.

Psalm 130:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A Song of Ascents. Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord!

Psalm 119:18 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

Deuteronomy 32:1-52 ESV / 3 helpful votes

“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak, and let the earth hear the words of my mouth. May my teaching drop as the rain, my speech distill as the dew, like gentle rain upon the tender grass, and like showers upon the herb. For I will proclaim the name of the Lord; ascribe greatness to our God! “The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice. A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he. They have dealt corruptly with him; they are no longer his children because they are blemished; they are a crooked and twisted generation. ...

Ruth 2:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The Lord repay you for what you have done, and a full reward be given you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge!”

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

2 Chronicles 7:14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Deuteronomy 18:9-12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“When you come into the land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not learn to follow the abominable practices of those nations. There shall not be found among you anyone who burns his son or his daughter as an offering, anyone who practices divination or tells fortunes or interprets omens, or a sorcerer or a charmer or a medium or a necromancer or one who inquires of the dead, for whoever does these things is an abomination to the Lord. And because of these abominations the Lord your God is driving them out before you.

Bible Verses about Stillness