100 Bible Verses about Sunset

Psalm 113:3 ESV / 584 helpful votes

From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised!

Luke 4:40 ESV / 448 helpful votes

Now when the sun was setting, all those who had any who were sick with various diseases brought them to him, and he laid his hands on every one of them and healed them.

John 3:16 ESV / 417 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.

Mark 1:32 ESV / 387 helpful votes

That evening at sundown they brought to him all who were sick or oppressed by demons.

Psalm 65:8 ESV / 382 helpful votes

So that those who dwell at the ends of the earth are in awe at your signs. You make the going out of the morning and the evening to shout for joy.

Leviticus 23:32 ESV / 382 helpful votes

It shall be to you a Sabbath of solemn rest, and you shall afflict yourselves. On the ninth day of the month beginning at evening, from evening to evening shall you keep your Sabbath.”

Amos 5:8 ESV / 367 helpful votes

He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name;

Psalm 19:4 ESV / 358 helpful votes

Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun,

Malachi 1:11 ESV / 342 helpful votes

For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the Lord of hosts.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 342 helpful votes

A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. ...

Romans 6:23 ESV / 339 helpful votes

For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Ecclesiastes 1:5 ESV / 330 helpful votes

The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.

1 John 3:4 ESV / 324 helpful votes

Everyone who makes a practice of sinning also practices lawlessness; sin is lawlessness.

Isaiah 60:20 ESV / 324 helpful votes

Your sun shall no more go down, nor your moon withdraw itself; for the Lord will be your everlasting light, and your days of mourning shall be ended.

Psalm 50:1 ESV / 317 helpful votes

A Psalm of Asaph. The Mighty One, God the Lord, speaks and summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

Revelation 12:1-17 ESV / 315 helpful votes

And a great sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown of twelve stars. She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth. And another sign appeared in heaven: behold, a great red dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads seven diadems. His tail swept down a third of the stars of heaven and cast them to the earth. And the dragon stood before the woman who was about to give birth, so that when she bore her child he might devour it. She gave birth to a male child, one who is to rule all the nations with a rod of iron, but her child was caught up to God and to his throne, ...

John 3:16-17 ESV / 313 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. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Psalm 74:16 ESV / 294 helpful votes

Yours is the day, yours also the night; you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.

Deuteronomy 4:19 ESV / 292 helpful votes

And beware lest you raise your eyes to heaven, and when you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the host of heaven, you be drawn away and bow down to them and serve them, things that the Lord your God has allotted to all the peoples under the whole heaven.

Genesis 1:5 ESV / 291 helpful votes

God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day.

Psalm 19:1-6 ESV / 288 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Their voice goes out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber, and, like a strong man, runs its course with joy. ...

John 3:2 ESV / 273 helpful votes

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.”

Genesis 1:1-31 ESV / 268 helpful votes

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. ...

Genesis 1:3 ESV / 266 helpful votes

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

Psalm 84:11 ESV / 263 helpful votes

For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.

Exodus 22:26 ESV / 260 helpful votes

If ever you take your neighbor's cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down,

Exodus 17:12 ESV / 260 helpful votes

But Moses' hands grew weary, so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it, while Aaron and Hur held up his hands, one on one side, and the other on the other side. So his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.

Acts 2:20 ESV / 257 helpful votes

The sun shall be turned to darkness and the moon to blood, before the day of the Lord comes, the great and magnificent day.

Matthew 24:29 ESV / 257 helpful votes

“Immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens will be shaken.

Ezekiel 32:7 ESV / 257 helpful votes

When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

Isaiah 13:10 ESV / 257 helpful votes

For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light.

Revelation 16:8-9 ESV / 256 helpful votes

The fourth angel poured out his bowl on the sun, and it was allowed to scorch people with fire. They were scorched by the fierce heat, and they cursed the name of God who had power over these plagues. They did not repent and give him glory.

Joshua 10:27 ESV / 254 helpful votes

But at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they set large stones against the mouth of the cave, which remain to this very day.

John 8:12 ESV / 246 helpful votes

Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

Judges 14:18 ESV / 244 helpful votes

And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, “What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?” And he said to them, “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.”

Matthew 5:45 ESV / 241 helpful votes

So that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

Isaiah 24:16 ESV / 241 helpful votes

From the ends of the earth we hear songs of praise, of glory to the Righteous One. But I say, “I waste away, I waste away. Woe is me! For the traitors have betrayed, with betrayal the traitors have betrayed.”

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 239 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,

John 20:1 ESV / 235 helpful votes

Now on the first day of the week Mary Magdalene came to the tomb early, while it was still dark, and saw that the stone had been taken away from the tomb.

2 Corinthians 4:6 ESV / 234 helpful votes

For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Exodus 20:10 ESV / 234 helpful votes

But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.

Matthew 12:40 ESV / 231 helpful votes

For just as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the great fish, so will the Son of Man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

John 19:31 ESV / 230 helpful votes

Since it was the day of Preparation, and so that the bodies would not remain on the cross on the Sabbath (for that Sabbath was a high day), the Jews asked Pilate that their legs might be broken and that they might be taken away.

2 Samuel 23:4 ESV / 230 helpful votes

He dawns on them like the morning light, like the sun shining forth on a cloudless morning, like rain that makes grass to sprout from the earth.

Malachi 4:2 ESV / 227 helpful votes

But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

Jeremiah 6:4 ESV / 227 helpful votes

“Prepare war against her; arise, and let us attack at noon! Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen!

Isaiah 42:2 ESV / 226 helpful votes

He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice, or make it heard in the street;

Psalm 19:6 ESV / 225 helpful votes

Its rising is from the end of the heavens, and its circuit to the end of them, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.

Genesis 1:14 ESV / 222 helpful votes

And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night. And let them be for signs and for seasons, and for days and years,

Joshua 8:29 ESV / 217 helpful votes

And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until evening. And at sunset Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree and threw it at the entrance of the gate of the city and raised over it a great heap of stones, which stands there to this day.

Revelation 22:5 ESV / 216 helpful votes

And night will be no more. They will need no light of lamp or sun, for the Lord God will be their light, and they will reign forever and ever.

Jeremiah 10:2 ESV / 216 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord: “Learn not the way of the nations, nor be dismayed at the signs of the heavens because the nations are dismayed at them,

Isaiah 30:26 ESV / 216 helpful votes

Moreover, the light of the moon will be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun will be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day when the Lord binds up the brokenness of his people, and heals the wounds inflicted by his blow.

Revelation 11:1-19 ESV / 209 helpful votes

Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff, and I was told, “Rise and measure the temple of God and the altar and those who worship there, but do not measure the court outside the temple; leave that out, for it is given over to the nations, and they will trample the holy city for forty-two months. And I will grant authority to my two witnesses, and they will prophesy for 1,260 days, clothed in sackcloth.” These are the two olive trees and the two lampstands that stand before the Lord of the earth. And if anyone would harm them, fire pours from their mouth and consumes their foes. If anyone would harm them, this is how he is doomed to be killed. ...

Matthew 13:43 ESV / 209 helpful votes

Then the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father. He who has ears, let him hear.

1 John 3:3 ESV / 207 helpful votes

And everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure.

Deuteronomy 24:13 ESV / 207 helpful votes

You shall restore to him the pledge as the sun sets, that he may sleep in his cloak and bless you. And it shall be righteousness for you before the Lord your God.

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 205 helpful votes

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger,

Psalm 121:6 ESV / 205 helpful votes

The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.

Matthew 17:2 ESV / 203 helpful votes

And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light.

Habakkuk 3:4 ESV / 203 helpful votes

His brightness was like the light; rays flashed from his hand; and there he veiled his power.

Jeremiah 31:35 ESV / 203 helpful votes

Thus says the Lord, who gives the sun for light by day and the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar— the Lord of hosts is his name:

Ecclesiastes 11:7 ESV / 203 helpful votes

Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.

Luke 4:2 ESV / 200 helpful votes

For forty days, being tempted by the devil. And he ate nothing during those days. And when they were ended, he was hungry.

Psalm 2:8 ESV / 200 helpful votes

Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage, and the ends of the earth your possession.

Leviticus 23:2 ESV / 199 helpful votes

“Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts.

Revelation 12:2 ESV / 197 helpful votes

She was pregnant and was crying out in birth pains and the agony of giving birth.

Exodus 20:8-11 ESV / 196 helpful votes

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.

Leviticus 23:27 ESV / 190 helpful votes

“Now on the tenth day of this seventh month is the Day of Atonement. It shall be for you a time of holy convocation, and you shall afflict yourselves and present a food offering to the Lord.

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 184 helpful votes

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters.

Job 38:12 ESV / 179 helpful votes

“Have you commanded the morning since your days began, and caused the dawn to know its place,

Psalm 118:24 ESV / 177 helpful votes

This is the day that the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.

Luke 1:78-79 ESV / 175 helpful votes

Because of the tender mercy of our God, whereby the sunrise shall visit us from on high to give light to those who sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.”

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 174 helpful votes

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Isaiah 66:23 ESV / 174 helpful votes

From new moon to new moon, and from Sabbath to Sabbath, all flesh shall come to worship before me, declares the Lord.

Leviticus 23:1-44 ESV / 171 helpful votes

The Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, These are the appointed feasts of the Lord that you shall proclaim as holy convocations; they are my appointed feasts. “Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a Sabbath of solemn rest, a holy convocation. You shall do no work. It is a Sabbath to the Lord in all your dwelling places. “These are the appointed feasts of the Lord, the holy convocations, which you shall proclaim at the time appointed for them. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the Lord's Passover. ...

Psalm 5:3 ESV / 167 helpful votes

O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.

Revelation 22:16 ESV / 157 helpful votes

“I, Jesus, have sent my angel to testify to you about these things for the churches. I am the root and the descendant of David, the bright morning star.”

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 157 helpful votes

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. 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.

Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 153 helpful votes

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

John 3:4 ESV / 153 helpful votes

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?”

Luke 4:4 ESV / 153 helpful votes

And Jesus answered him, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone.’”

Isaiah 18:4 ESV / 152 helpful votes

For thus the Lord said to me: “I will quietly look from my dwelling like clear heat in sunshine, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.”

Isaiah 59:19 ESV / 150 helpful votes

So they shall fear the name of the Lord from the west, and his glory from the rising of the sun; for he will come like a rushing stream, which the wind of the Lord drives.

Psalm 72:1-20 ESV / 149 helpful votes

Of Solomon. Give the king your justice, O God, and your righteousness to the royal son! May he judge your people with righteousness, and your poor with justice! Let the mountains bear prosperity for the people, and the hills, in righteousness! May he defend the cause of the poor of the people, give deliverance to the children of the needy, and crush the oppressor! May they fear you while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations! ...

Job 9:7 ESV / 141 helpful votes

Who commands the sun, and it does not rise; who seals up the stars;

Psalm 65:13 ESV / 133 helpful votes

The meadows clothe themselves with flocks, the valleys deck themselves with grain, they shout and sing together for joy.

1 Kings 22:36 ESV / 118 helpful votes

And about sunset a cry went through the army, “Every man to his city, and every man to his country!”

Ecclesiastes 1:9 ESV / 107 helpful votes

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

2 Samuel 2:24 ESV / 95 helpful votes

But Joab and Abishai pursued Abner. And as the sun was going down they came to the hill of Ammah, which lies before Giah on the way to the wilderness of Gibeon.

John 14:6 ESV / 94 helpful votes

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

Leviticus 23:6 ESV / 89 helpful votes

And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread.

Psalm 103:12 ESV / 88 helpful votes

As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us.

Genesis 1:16 ESV / 87 helpful votes

And God made the two great lights—the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night—and the stars.

Psalm 72:5 ESV / 80 helpful votes

May they fear you while the sun endures, and as long as the moon, throughout all generations!

John 19:2 ESV / 76 helpful votes

And the soldiers twisted together a crown of thorns and put it on his head and arrayed him in a purple robe.

Genesis 1:18 ESV / 76 helpful votes

To rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Matthew 5:2 ESV / 71 helpful votes

And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying:

Psalm 19:2 ESV / 71 helpful votes

Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge.

Hebrews 11:1-40 ESV / 70 helpful votes

Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the people of old received their commendation. By faith we understand that the universe was created by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things that are visible. By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which he was commended as righteous, God commending him by accepting his gifts. And through his faith, though he died, he still speaks. By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him. Now before he was taken he was commended as having pleased God. ...

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