What Does the Bible Say About Angel Wings?

Psalm 91:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes

For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways.

Luke 2:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes

And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God and saying,

Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 2:7 ESV / 5 helpful votes

You made him for a little while lower than the angels; you have crowned him with glory and honor,

Acts 12:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down, because he did not give God the glory, and he was eaten by worms and breathed his last.

Luke 16:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes

The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried,

Luke 11:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes

But he said, “Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!”

Matthew 24:36 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“But concerning that day and hour no one knows, not even the angels of heaven, nor the Son, but the Father only.

Daniel 4:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“I saw in the visions of my head as I lay in bed, and behold, a watcher, a holy one, came down from heaven.

Psalm 104:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

He makes his messengers winds, his ministers a flaming fire.

Exodus 23:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes

“Behold, I send an angel before you to guard you on the way and to bring you to the place that I have prepared.

Matthew 18:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels always see the face of my Father who is in heaven.

Isaiah 40:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” ...

Isaiah 6:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

Genesis 28:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!

Genesis 19:1-38 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant's house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” ...

Revelation 12:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Now war arose in heaven, Michael and his angels fighting against the dragon. And the dragon and his angels fought back,

Jude 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But when the archangel Michael, contending with the devil, was disputing about the body of Moses, he did not presume to pronounce a blasphemous judgment, but said, “The Lord rebuke you.”

Hebrews 12:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festal gathering,

2 Thessalonians 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Acts 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But during the night an angel of the Lord opened the prison doors and brought them out, and said,

Luke 1:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the angel answered him, “I am Gabriel. I stand in the presence of God, and I was sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.

Matthew 1:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

But as he considered these things, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream, saying, “Joseph, son of David, do not fear to take Mary as your wife, for that which is conceived in her is from the Holy Spirit.

Daniel 9:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes

While I was speaking in prayer, the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the first, came to me in swift flight at the time of the evening sacrifice.

Daniel 7:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes

A stream of fire issued and came out from before him; a thousand thousands served him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him; the court sat in judgment, and the books were opened.

Isaiah 6:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes

In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!” And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. And I said: “Woe is me! For I am lost; for I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts!” ...

Psalm 103:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes

Bless the Lord, O you his angels, you mighty ones who do his word, obeying the voice of his word!

Numbers 20:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And when we cried to the Lord, he heard our voice and sent an angel and brought us out of Egypt. And here we are in Kadesh, a city on the edge of your territory.

Genesis 32:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And Jacob was left alone. And a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day.

Genesis 18:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes

He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth

Genesis 18:1-33 ESV / 3 helpful votes

And the Lord appeared to him by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the door of his tent in the heat of the day. He lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, three men were standing in front of him. When he saw them, he ran from the tent door to meet them and bowed himself to the earth and said, “O Lord, if I have found favor in your sight, do not pass by your servant. Let a little water be brought, and wash your feet, and rest yourselves under the tree, while I bring a morsel of bread, that you may refresh yourselves, and after that you may pass on—since you have come to your servant.” So they said, “Do as you have said.” ...

Genesis 1:1-3 ESV / 3 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.

2 Peter 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Whereas angels, though greater in might and power, do not pronounce a blasphemous judgment against them before the Lord.

Hebrews 12:1-29 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. And have you forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons? “My son, do not regard lightly the discipline of the Lord, nor be weary when reproved by him. ...

Hebrews 1:14 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

1 Thessalonians 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Acts 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And behold, an angel of the Lord stood next to him, and a light shone in the cell. He struck Peter on the side and woke him, saying, “Get up quickly.” And the chains fell off his hands.

Acts 8:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Rise and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” This is a desert place.

John 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And she saw two angels in white, sitting where the body of Jesus had lain, one at the head and one at the feet.

Matthew 16:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the Son of Man is going to come with his angels in the glory of his Father, and then he will repay each person according to what he has done.

Malachi 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, for he is the messenger of the Lord of hosts.

Zechariah 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And they answered the angel of the Lord who was standing among the myrtle trees, and said, ‘We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth remains at rest.’

Daniel 12:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who has charge of your people. And there shall be a time of trouble, such as never has been since there was a nation till that time. But at that time your people shall be delivered, everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.

Daniel 10:20-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then he said, “Do you know why I have come to you? But now I will return to fight against the prince of Persia; and when I go out, behold, the prince of Greece will come. But I will tell you what is inscribed in the book of truth: there is none who contends by my side against these except Michael, your prince.

Daniel 10:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me twenty-one days, but Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of Persia,

Daniel 10:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And behold, a hand touched me and set me trembling on my hands and knees.

Isaiah 6:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up; and the train of his robe filled the temple. Above him stood the seraphim. Each had six wings: with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew. And one called to another and said: “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory!”

Psalm 78:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Man ate of the bread of the angels; he sent them food in abundance.

Psalm 8:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Yet you have made him a little lower than the heavenly beings and crowned him with glory and honor.

Job 38:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?

Job 4:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Even in his servants he puts no trust, and his angels he charges with error;

Job 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came among them.

2 Kings 19:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And that night the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

2 Samuel 24:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Again the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he incited David against them, saying, “Go, number Israel and Judah.”

2 Samuel 14:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In order to change the course of things your servant Joab did this. But my lord has wisdom like the wisdom of the angel of God to know all things that are on the earth.”

Joshua 5:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in his hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our adversaries?”

Genesis 32:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, saying, “For I have seen God face to face, and yet my life has been delivered.”

Genesis 32:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.

Genesis 19:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

62 Bible Verses about Angel Wings

Psalm 91:11 ESV / 9 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 2:13 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Acts 12:23 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 16:22 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 11:28 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 24:36 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 4:13 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 104:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Exodus 23:20 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 18:10 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 40:1-31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 6:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 28:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 19:1-38 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Revelation 12:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jude 1:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Hebrews 12:22 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Thessalonians 1:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 5:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Luke 1:19 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 1:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 9:21 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Daniel 7:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Isaiah 6:1-13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Psalm 103:20 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Numbers 20:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 32:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Genesis 18:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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2 Peter 2:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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1 Thessalonians 4:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Colossians 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Acts 12:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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John 20:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 16:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Malachi 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Psalm 78:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Job 38:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Job 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

2 Kings 19:35 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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Genesis 32:30 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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