100 Bible Verses about Sunrise

Psalm 113:3 ESV / 174 helpful votes

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

Luke 1:78-79 ESV / 147 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.”

Genesis 1:5 ESV / 71 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 118:24 ESV / 61 helpful votes

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

2 Samuel 23:4 ESV / 57 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 / 55 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.

Job 38:12 ESV / 44 helpful votes

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

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 40 helpful votes

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Malachi 1:11 ESV / 40 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 65:8 ESV / 33 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.

Psalm 30:5 ESV / 30 helpful votes

For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning.

Matthew 5:45 ESV / 27 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.

Jeremiah 6:4 ESV / 27 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 66:23 ESV / 27 helpful votes

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

Hosea 6:3 ESV / 26 helpful votes

Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”

Mark 16:2 ESV / 25 helpful votes

And very early on the first day of the week, when the sun had risen, they went to the tomb.

Psalm 5:3 ESV / 25 helpful votes

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

Deuteronomy 4:19 ESV / 22 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.

Amos 5:8 ESV / 21 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;

Ecclesiastes 11:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes

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

Ecclesiastes 1:5 ESV / 21 helpful votes

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

2 Chronicles 15:7 ESV / 21 helpful votes

But you, take courage! Do not let your hands be weak, for your work shall be rewarded.”

Matthew 13:43 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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

Habakkuk 3:4 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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

John 3:16 ESV / 19 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.

Proverbs 4:18 ESV / 19 helpful votes

But the path of the righteous is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day.

John 20:1 ESV / 18 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.

Mark 2:28 ESV / 17 helpful votes

So the Son of Man is lord even of the Sabbath.”

Psalm 50:1 ESV / 17 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.

Genesis 1:2 ESV / 17 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.

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 16 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,

Romans 6:23 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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

Acts 20:7 ESV / 15 helpful votes

On the first day of the week, when we were gathered together to break bread, Paul talked with them, intending to depart on the next day, and he prolonged his speech until midnight.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 15 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.

John 4:24 ESV / 15 helpful votes

God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”

Isaiah 59:19 ESV / 15 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.

Isaiah 18:4 ESV / 15 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.”

Psalm 84:11 ESV / 15 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.

Psalm 19:4 ESV / 15 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,

Revelation 12:1-17 ESV / 14 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, ...

Luke 24:1-53 ESV / 14 helpful votes

But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? ...

Matthew 17:2 ESV / 14 helpful votes

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

Jeremiah 10:2 ESV / 14 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,

Psalm 121:6 ESV / 14 helpful votes

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

Psalm 72:1-20 ESV / 14 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! ...

Ephesians 4:26 ESV / 13 helpful votes

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

Acts 2:20 ESV / 13 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.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 13 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.

Matthew 24:29 ESV / 12 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.

Matthew 12:40 ESV / 12 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.

Isaiah 66:22 ESV / 12 helpful votes

“For as the new heavens and the new earth that I make shall remain before me, says the Lord, so shall your offspring and your name remain.

Psalm 74:16 ESV / 12 helpful votes

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

Psalm 19:6 ESV / 12 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 1:1-31 ESV / 12 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. ...

Revelation 16:8-9 ESV / 11 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.

Jeremiah 31:35 ESV / 11 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:

Isaiah 60:20 ESV / 11 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.

Numbers 34:15 ESV / 11 helpful votes

The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan east of Jericho, toward the sunrise.”

Leviticus 23:1-44 ESV / 11 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. ...

Acts 12:4 ESV / 10 helpful votes

And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.

Luke 4:40 ESV / 10 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.

Mark 16:1 ESV / 10 helpful votes

When the Sabbath was past, Mary Magdalene, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought spices, so that they might go and anoint him.

Matthew 5:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes

“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Ezekiel 32:7 ESV / 10 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 24:16 ESV / 10 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.”

Isaiah 13:10 ESV / 10 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.

Psalm 110:3 ESV / 10 helpful votes

Your people will offer themselves freely on the day of your power, in holy garments; from the womb of the morning, the dew of your youth will be yours.

Leviticus 23:5 ESV / 10 helpful votes

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, is the Lord's Passover.

Matthew 12:2 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 9 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. ...

Joshua 8:29 ESV / 9 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.

Genesis 1:14 ESV / 9 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,

Revelation 22:5 ESV / 8 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.

John 20:1-31 ESV / 8 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. So she ran and went to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one whom Jesus loved, and said to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have laid him.” So Peter went out with the other disciple, and they were going toward the tomb. Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first. And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in. ...

Job 37:3 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Under the whole heaven he lets it go, and his lightning to the corners of the earth.

Genesis 32:26 ESV / 8 helpful votes

Then he said, “Let me go, for the day has broken.” But Jacob said, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”

Revelation 22:16 ESV / 7 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.”

Jude 1:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

It was also about these that Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord comes with ten thousands of his holy ones,

2 Timothy 3:16-17 ESV / 7 helpful votes

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.

John 19:31 ESV / 7 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.

Psalm 73:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes

For all the day long I have been stricken and rebuked every morning.

Psalm 22:27 ESV / 7 helpful votes

All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord, and all the families of the nations shall worship before you.

Psalm 2:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes

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

Job 26:7 ESV / 7 helpful votes

He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.

Job 21:1-34 ESV / 7 helpful votes

Then Job answered and said: “Keep listening to my words, and let this be your comfort. Bear with me, and I will speak, and after I have spoken, mock on. As for me, is my complaint against man? Why should I not be impatient? Look at me and be appalled, and lay your hand over your mouth. ...

Exodus 20:10 ESV / 7 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.

Exodus 12:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes

In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Acts 2:1 ESV / 6 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.

John 3:4 ESV / 6 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?”

Isaiah 51:9 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of the Lord; awake, as in days of old, the generations of long ago. Was it not you who cut Rahab in pieces, who pierced the dragon?

Isaiah 30:26 ESV / 6 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.

Psalm 103:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

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

Job 37:18 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Can you, like him, spread out the skies, hard as a cast metal mirror?

Job 22:14 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Thick clouds veil him, so that he does not see, and he walks on the vault of heaven.’

Deuteronomy 33:17 ESV / 6 helpful votes

A firstborn bull—he has majesty, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he shall gore the peoples, all of them, to the ends of the earth; they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”

Exodus 20:8-11 ESV / 6 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.

1 John 3:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

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

John 20:5 ESV / 5 helpful votes

And stooping to look in, he saw the linen cloths lying there, but he did not go in.

John 20:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Both of them were running together, but the other disciple outran Peter and reached the tomb first.

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